Gloria Mika Birthday

Hello, and thanks for checking out my Birthday Wish!

For my birthday on January 8th, I'm asking my friends and family for a special gift:
help me raise $1400 for Bring clean water to 10 schools!. It's a great cause that
provides rain water catchment and filtration systems at the schools! These systems
can provide clean drinking water for 100% of the students PLUS the families in the
region. They teach the local children and parents proper hygiene and sanitation
methods. This is a crisis that can be easily stopped! Only $1400 provides an entire
rain water harvesting and filtration system for a school. Only $1400 can eliminate
sickness and reduce child death rates by up to 20%. Please help us answer this call.
These schools desperately need our help.

I chose Bring clean water to 10 schools! because water is the source of LIFE and is
one of most precious gift of nature. Unfortunately, some people around the world
don't have easy access to it. Let's help provide clean drinking water to 10 schools
in the Masiimba region of Western Kenya. These schools all struggle to provide a
good education to the children (ages 4 to 14). Each school has an average of 500
students and they have no electricity or water supply. The children must walk an
average of 5km each way to gather water at local streams using Jerry cans and
buckets. The water is dirty and full of bacteria, but it is all they have to drink
and it is what the schools and families use to cook food with and wash with. Over
4500 children die each day from water borne diseases. Women and young girls are the
hardest hit as they have been tasked with getting the water for the schools and
families.

Please consider giving to my Birthday Wish, and together we can make the world a
better place. If you can't give now, I'd really appreciate if you'd share this page
with your friends.

Thanks so much,

Gloria

Check it out:
http://wishes.causes.com/wishes/188826?bws=email_to_friends&m=1ac83f93