Super Cool!!

My birthday is on October 27. 

I was born in 1980. 

If you do the quick math that makes me:

31

This past year I ran into a charity that drills clean water rigs for people specifically in Ethiopia. As other charities have also done this one gives the idea to give up your birthday and to ask people to instead of giving you a gift that they could make a donation to this charity. I set up my campaign and I asked specific people to donate. I threw it up on facebook and asked people to partner with me. And the response... not a single person donated. Why? I don't know. Maybe I went about it wrong. Maybe it was too impersonal. Maybe I don't have any friends, I'm not certain. But I did sponsored my own campaign so it wasn't a total loss.

I made a donation back in October for my birthday and the money went to purchase a new drilling rig so that this charity could do more than what they were doing already. What is neat about the charity is that they said that when the rig was bought that they would notify me of it's location through GPS and I could see what it was doing and where it was going. So I thought it was cool, donated and then it slipped my mind for a while. But today I got an email telling me about the rig called Yellow Thunder that I helped sponsor.

I helped bring in part of the $1,224,902 that came in for this specific project. I was one of the 1,142 campaigns that were started. I was one of the 13,107 donors that made this possible. Sure my $50 may not seem like much but I am now and forever part of making the success of Yellow Thunder happen. And with many donations it made this project possible.

I watched the video of this rig drilling its first well. It happened back in February, 3 months or so ahead of schedule. It got me pretty excited to know that I could help make this difference. If you want to see what this rig is doing and find out more about this charity click HERE!!

The charity I'm talking about is charity:water. 100% of all donations go straight to the project. Ya, 100%. 

Whether it's this project that you get excited for or it's something else it's amazing how you can make a difference, even if nobody else joins you and even if it's only $50. Go get involved in something bigger than yourself. Take care of your neighbour. Love conquers all. Jesus is my hero!