I hope you are in a ready position, because you are about to get hit with the equivalent of a left hook from Mr. T.  What I am about to tell you is one of the most exciting things I have ever been a part of; higher than my first kiss with Beth Hunter when I was 14, and just behind the birth of my two kids and my wedding day.

I am joining together with a group of  influential bloggers (I sneaked in because I am friends with the organizer) who are trying to do something nearly impossible, and it will take all these bloggers and all their readers (that’s you!) to join together to make it happen.  I hope you will join me on this.  We can’t do it without you.

Here we go.

There are 4.3 million people who live in Central African Republic (C.A.R.).  An astonishing 90% of the people are unemployed.  64% of the population lives on less than $1/day, and 69% do not have a toilet.  1.5 million (34%) live without clean water, which leads to all kinds of disease and sickness, perpetuating the problems.  We can’t fix all these problems for all these people, but 30 bloggers, for 30 days, can raise $30,000. What is our $30,000 going to do?

provide clean water (and health and hope) to 1,500 people (300 families, 6 entire communities)!

Let’s do this! It is unthinkable that this many people have to drink nasty, dirty, disease-filled water everyday.  Let’s help!  We can, and we will.  Won’t you please join me?

We are partnering with charity: water to do this.  There are many organizations that do this sort of thing, so why did we choose charity: water?  Because they do it right.  They build great quality wells and 100% of the money donated goes towards water projects! They have donors who cover all of their overhead so that all of our donations go straight to the project.  Amazing.  Please head over to their site and get acquainted.  I’ll wait here.

Please watch this video to see who we will be helping.

So how can you get involved?  Here are 3 ways:

1. Go to our group charity: water site (http://mycharitywater.org/30) and GIVE. (Please only donate through our group site so we can track how much money our specific project is making.)  Check this out, $20 provides clean water for one person for 20 years!
2. SHARE it with your networks.  Virtual networks like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace (like anyone is still on MySpace), and personal networks like work, friends, school, small groups, church, etc.
3. If you have one, BLOG about it.  Imagine the exponential potential of communicational activities-al… never mind, just write about it on your blog, or simply pump it up and send them to my blog.

We have 30 days to do this.  Let’s get clean water to 1500 people!