Fill up your water bottle and get ready for an awesome way to help provide kids in Africa with clean water. For the next couple of weeks, I challenge you to drink only water. No juice, no soda, no sports drinks, no (gasp!) coffee, no Jamba Juice—nothing but water for two weeks. Calculate how much you would have spent on other beverages if you had been drinking them, and donate that money to the Blood:Water Mission, a movement for clean water and HIV/AIDS-free blood, started by the band Jars of Clay.
Let’s say you sacrifice for two weeks and raise ten dollars. You just saved ten Africans. One dollar provides enough water for an African to survive an entire year, the Blood:Water Mission web site points out. Use this PDF scorecard to calculate how much your sacrifice raised.
Comment here and tell me why you’ll be sacrificing for the next two weeks. When you finish your two weeks, total up your numbers and post how much you saved for the Blood:Water Mission during your two weeks of sacrifice. To send in your funds, follow this link.
The Blood:Water Mission started when Jars of Clay band member Dan Haseltine traveled to Africa and felt moved to provide much-needed aid. Watch the Blood:Water Mission video here (http://www.bloodwatermission.com/bloodwater.mov) and get inspired to make a difference these next couple of weeks.
Now, e-mail your friends a link to this blog, and ask them to join you in your two weeks of sacrifice.
You can visit the Blood:Water Mission web site at www.bloodwatermission.com.
