The Age of Conversation Official Charity – Charity Water
The first piece of news is to confirm that the charity that benefits from each and every sale of each and every book, is Charity Water. Charity Water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. 100% of public donations directly fund water projects.
Amazingly, just $20 can give one person clean water for 20 years. An average water project costs $5,000 and can serve 250 people with clean, safe water – so purchasing a copy of the Age of Conversation 3 really can make a difference to someone’s life!
October 15th is Blog Action Day and this year’s focus is water. Many of us may take it for granted but many around the world do not have clean and safe drinking water, something vital to human survival. Charity:Water is also the official charity for The Age of Conversation 3, so we’re asking that you support both Blog Action Day and Charity;Water by tweeting, sharing and blogging about the topic and buying a copy of The Age of Conversation 3 on October 15th.
Read Gavin Heaton’s full post here: http://www.servantofchaos.com/2010/10/blog-action-day-and-the-age-of-conversa…
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Erica says
I read on Charity Waters site that over 1 billion people go without clean water every day. That’s about 10% of the worlds population. The also claims a donation of as little as $20 gives one person clean water for life. 🙂
Andrew Heaton says
Karen,
Clean drinking water is essential to life, yet it is something we so often take for granted.
Down here in Australia, even though we have just come through a major fifteen year drought (from what I hear, some parts of the US, particularly the Midwest and the southern part near California and Arizona have had it pretty bad as well – is that correct?). Whilst our drought had a devastating effect on agriculture and rural communities, our drinking supplies were never really in doubt. I cannot begin to comprehend the idea of not having access to clean drinking water, yet that is the reality of many throughout the world.
One of the positives of note is how there seems to have been a greater awareness about water related issues over the past few years – witness Coca-Cola’s big water initiative announced a few years back in Beijing (the company has set a goal to become ‘water neutral’ – give as much back in water sponsored projects as it takes away in its operations), or the amount of attention global publications such as The Economist have given to the issue.