{"id":4524,"date":"2009-05-15T08:40:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T14:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4524"},"modified":"2009-05-26T08:13:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T14:13:32","slug":"give-the-gift-of-clean-fresh-water-for-30-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/give-the-gift-of-clean-fresh-water-for-30-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Give the gift of clean, fresh water for 30 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingbeautifulpodcast.com\/podcast\/something-beautiful-18-kevin-d-hendricks\/\">Kevin Hendricks<\/a> is a man on a(nother) mission&#8230; after spending time in Ethiopia this March to pick up his newly adopted son Milo, he&#8217;s witnessed the water crises there first hand and he&#8217;s hoping to make a difference with his 30th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin writes ::<\/p>\n<p>In late March 2009 we traveled to Ethiopia to bring home our son Milo. While there, we witnessed the reality of unclean water:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Time and time again we saw the people of Ethiopia carrying these 5 gallon jerry cans, often walking hours to muddy water holes for their daily supply of tainted water.<\/li>\n<li>Milo came home with giardia, a water-borne intestinal parasite common among people with no access to clean water.<\/li>\n<li>I fell sick for a day, stricken down by water unintentionally consumed either in the shower or from rinsed dishes. Thankfully it was a mild case (yay for meds!).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWe know firsthand what a lack of clean water can do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/us\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_flow&#038;SESSION=TFhp4nBxDw74v32BVmIYmvzzC-A2aKojGRD-5Jsqsc9fZh-FCfTKHwOOcNO&#038;dispatch=50a222a57771920b6a3d7b606239e4d529b525e0b7e69bf0224adecfb0124e9be594ea21c12148bea83131855e55aef639c6b583040ae8e4\">Donate now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/kevinhair2009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/kevinhair2009.jpg\" alt=\"kevinhair2009\" title=\"kevinhair2009\" width=\"150\" height=\"171\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4525\" align=\"right\"\/><\/a>If we can give clean water to 30 people in 30 days for my 30th birthday,<br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll shave my head.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s $600<br \/>\nfor charity: water<br \/>\nby June 13 and<br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll shave my head.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/us\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_flow&#038;SESSION=TFhp4nBxDw74v32BVmIYmvzzC-A2aKojGRD-5Jsqsc9fZh-FCfTKHwOOcNO&#038;dispatch=50a222a57771920b6a3d7b606239e4d529b525e0b7e69bf0224adecfb0124e9be594ea21c12148bea83131855e55aef639c6b583040ae8e4\">Donate now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the deal: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m turning 30 in 30 days and I need your help to celebrate. There are more than a billion people in this world who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have easy access to clean, safe drinking water. To celebrate my big 3-0, I want to give 30 people clean water.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not much, a drop in the bucket so to speak. But to those 30 people it would mean life.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charitywater.org\/\">charity: water<\/a> can give one person clean water for 20 years for about $20. So giving clean water to 30 people will cost $600. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a pretty big chunk of change, but with your help, I think we can do it.<\/p>\n<p>So help me celebrate my 30th birthday by raising $600 in 30 days and giving clean water to 30 people.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if we can do it, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll shave my head. Welcome to the Bald Birthday Benefit 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevindhendricks.com\/bald\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/us\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_flow&#038;SESSION=TFhp4nBxDw74v32BVmIYmvzzC-A2aKojGRD-5Jsqsc9fZh-FCfTKHwOOcNO&#038;dispatch=50a222a57771920b6a3d7b606239e4d529b525e0b7e69bf0224adecfb0124e9be594ea21c12148bea83131855e55aef639c6b583040ae8e4\">Donate now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just think, if each of my daily blog readers gave $5, we would push Kevin over his mark <em>and<\/em> provide clean, fresh water for 30 people in Africa!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/us\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_flow&#038;SESSION=TFhp4nBxDw74v32BVmIYmvzzC-A2aKojGRD-5Jsqsc9fZh-FCfTKHwOOcNO&#038;dispatch=50a222a57771920b6a3d7b606239e4d529b525e0b7e69bf0224adecfb0124e9be594ea21c12148bea83131855e55aef639c6b583040ae8e4\">Donate now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Hendricks is a man on a(nother) mission&#8230; after spending time in Ethiopia this March to pick up his newly adopted son Milo, he&#8217;s witnessed the water crises there first hand and he&#8217;s hoping to make a difference with his 30th birthday. Kevin writes :: In late March 2009 we traveled to Ethiopia to bring &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/give-the-gift-of-clean-fresh-water-for-30-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Give the gift of clean, fresh water for 30 people<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[888,2144,2143,301,2172,2171,1608],"class_list":["post-4524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-take-action","tag-africa","tag-charitywater","tag-clean","tag-donate","tag-ethiopia","tag-fresh","tag-kevin-hendricks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1aY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}