Help ensure that people around the world get clean water. This is literally a tangible way you can make a difference!

"Every day, about 1,400 children die from diseases caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are simple solutions like drilled wells, spring protections and BioSand filters that help provide clean water to communities around the world."

I'm turning 22 at the end of this month (November), and for some reason, this birthday is more sobering than exciting for me. I'm already an adult; I'm about to graduate from undergrad; I have no idea what I want to post-grad. So perhaps this birthday is just an indicator that I am entering the real world, and that Taylor Swift wrote a song just for me. On the other hand, for many people in the world, there is no 'bubble' that I have that shelters them from the real world. For many people in the world, the real world is walking miles each day just to scoop up a bucket for water to then lug back home. For many people, water is such a scarcity that you have to decide whether to cook, hydrate, or clean yourself. And this water that they walked miles for is

unclean.

And here I am wishing I had La Croix on tap.

So for my birthday this year, I really want to see people have access to clean water. 44 people in fact.

So, hey! Please donate to my campaign -- anything you can give is a huge help. Because you can go one day without that latte with soy milk and an extra shot. It'd be the best birthday present you could ever give.

100% of the money will be used to build clean water projects, and when they’re complete, charity: water will send us photos and GPS coordinates so we can see the exact community we helped. I chose to partner with charity: water because they have really good transparency.