Charity:Water – my small bit to provide fresh water to those in need

Charity:Water is an excellent charitable foundation designed to leverage social networking to steer funding directly to NGOs helping provide irrigation and well equipment to the poorest of villages, providing fresh drinking water critical to survival. Over a billion people today do not have access to fresh drinking water, and as a venture investor seeking to profit from technological advances in “clean tech”, it seemed obvious to me to dedicate my energy to raise even a small amount of funding to save lives.  Please learn more about this issue through sites like charity:water and some of the NGOs they support such as Water Aid America, A Child’s Right, and Water For People, among others.  Access to drinking water is a global crisis on par with HIV/Aids, and is only getting worse.  Investment in infrastructure, government funding, education, and the work of NGOs are only a small part of the solution, but the solutions are right in front of us.  Please consider contributing to my own small campaign to raise $10,000 – which can provide drinking water to 500 people in 2 villages.  Many thanks, ML

~ by Marc La Magna on October 20, 2010.