charity:water

Last week’s Catalyst conference highlighted a large number of social action projects, from the Two Futures Project (nuclear disarmament) to the Tronie Project (ending slavery).

Today I want to highlight charity:water, a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.

Its website (HERE) provides several hours of challenging reading and watching.

Scott Harrison was a self-absorbed nightclub promoter in Manhattan until 2004, when he volunteered to serve on Mercy Ships, a humanitarian organization which offers free medical care in the world's poorest nations. It was a life-changing experience.

“Faced with spiritual bankruptcy,” Scott says, “I wanted desperately to revive a lost Christian faith with action and asked the question: What would the opposite of my life look like?”

In 2006, Scott founded charity:water, which has now raised almost $20 million and funded almost 3,000 water projects in 17 countries.

Scott’s passionate testimony and persistent vision challenged me, and I’m getting on-board. I’ll be setting up a fund-raiser for charity:water sometime soon. In the meantime, you need to explore the website HERE.