pre-sale tickets for the good exchange are up!

click here to get yours.

and just so you all know, the cause i have chosen for this exchange is water.org. and if you’ve been following along with this good exchange project you’ll know two things. one - i keep changing the name of it, and two - i had previously said that i will be raising funds for one cause for the whole year in an effort to make a bigger impact. as you might have guessed, i’ve changed my mind a bit on number two going forward.

and it’s not because i don’t think 20x20x20.org, is not a worthwhile organization to help out. far from it. it has more to do with shining a light on more causes to get involved with. there are so many good people out there doing good things for others that the more i find out the harder they are to ignore. i want to be able to somehow give them a pat on the back for a job well done, and do what i can, along with you, to help.

do what you can with what you have.

so a portion of the proceeds will be going towards water.org which is a pretty essential project dedicated to providing safe water to those in need. and if you take a look through their site, you will begin to understand that this basic life source, that is abundant, and likely taken for granted to you and me, is not so for so many around the world. here, let me put that into numbers you can fathom. more than 748 million people lack access to safe water.

more than 748 million people lack access to safe water.

okay, maybe that’s not fathomable. it’s pretty terrible actually considering that water is an non-negotiable to life.  and if not for the water taps and wells that water.org provides, these families and communities, and more often than not, women, would have to spend countless hours going out of their way to obtain water for their families. this takes away from their time to do so many other productive and necessary things.

just imagine if you had to spend three to four hours out of your day just to get water.

three to four hours! sometimes more. that’s a huge chunk of time. time that, for the families who have received a life-changing tap, is now spent on farming, the needs of their children and so much more. i few months ago i came across benjamin heath’s ig, where he was documenting some of the lives changed by this initiative. his thoughts on the project and some really amazing photos and profiles can be found here.

read more about the good exchange in past posts here including yesterday’s post about the last exchange in january.

so come, join me at the good exchange in a few weeks time. i promise, it will be well worth it.

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photo credit / water.org with my artwork on top.