Check out this blog about World Water Day. Read more information there and see how you can help 15 people in Africa get clean water just by buying a bottle (or by joining the Mocha Club). Leave a comment if you do buy the bottle or join the club. :)
But I really encourage people to join Mocha Club if you haven't already. It's only $7 a month (the cost of two mochas) and it can make a huge impact. The neat thing about it is you can create a team and invite your friends and family to join too. Imagine if you got 10 people to join and then each of those 10 people got 10 people to join. It's very possible with it only being $7 a month. (I'm practicing for when Janell and I work the Mocha Club table at the Sanctus Real/Addison Road concert on Sunday night :) )
For the month of March, we will each live on $1 of food for each day. We will be posting updates throughout the month of what we spent, what meals we've prepared, and our reflections on the experience. Here are the guidelines we'll be following:
- No stockpiling of food prior to March. We'll only eat what we can buy with our allotted money.
- We will be taking a multi-vitamin so we don't get sick(extreme poverty is considered, by the World Bank, to be$1.25/day, so that $0.25 will cover the vitamin)
- We can't eat free food at work, etc...
- People who know we're doing this can't offer to buy uslunch, dinner, etc...
- The "Rude Rule" is the only caveat. If we find ourselves in a situation where refusing food, from someone that doesn't know about the $1 a day, because of our experiment would be rude, we can accept without a "penalty". Our Mothers didn't raise rude children. :)
I bought Janell and I each a bottle. So, there are 30 people who will have clean water. :)
ReplyDeleteI bought one!
ReplyDeleteBut I really encourage people to join Mocha Club if you haven't already. It's only $7 a month (the cost of two mochas) and it can make a huge impact. The neat thing about it is you can create a team and invite your friends and family to join too. Imagine if you got 10 people to join and then each of those 10 people got 10 people to join. It's very possible with it only being $7 a month. (I'm practicing for when Janell and I work the Mocha Club table at the Sanctus Real/Addison Road concert on Sunday night :) )