Charity What’S The …

WHAT’S THE SEPTEMBER CAMPAIGN? Childrens Charity: water started with a birthday party. When founder Scott Harrison turned 31, he asked everyone he knew to come to a party and bring money for clean water instead of gifts. He raised more than $15,000 and we used the money to give water to people living in a refugee camp in Uganda. In 2007 we did it again, but asked others born in September to join in as well. They gave up birthday gifts and together we raised $150,000 to bring clean water to hospitals and schools in Kenya. A year later, 900 people joined the movement, and almost $1 million was raised through birthdays. This year, we’re doing it again — but bigger. We hope to bring clean and safe drinking water to a forgotten people in a forgotten nation: the Bayaka in Central African Republic. The 210 water projects that will serve 90,000 people will cost $1.7 million — an ambitious goal, but one we can reach with your help. See previous September Campaigns — | | Watch your birthday change the world.