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ventaSo, I am already wondering why I thought this was a good idea. I've decided to accept WaterAid's sponsored "Just Water" challenge, and drink nothing but water during the month of January. They say it will make me feel good. I suspect it will make me feel like an idiot.
I've often heard it said that people who are trying to raise money via sponsorship are really just trying to tack a charity's name onto something they want to do anyway, like going to Ghana or running a marathon. Rest assured that this is something that I absolutely don't want to do. It sounds miserable.
Water-related projects aren't the most effective form of charitable donation (according to people like GWWC). But I can never quite shake the idea that water is such a basic requirement that we need to try. If you haven't got safe water, you're pretty much stuffed for everything.
I know people make their decisions about charitable giving in lots of different ways. Please don't feel any kind of obligation to make a donation! But if you want to, or if you're the sort of person who mostly gives money to charity when presented with a handy opportunity, then you would be most welcome to sponsor me here:
https://www.wahoo.wateraid.org/uk/event/wateraid-just-water-challenge-ecw
If nothing else, you could consider it a fair price for the right to mock me when you're having a lovely cup of tea, or a nice pint, and I am not.
I've often heard it said that people who are trying to raise money via sponsorship are really just trying to tack a charity's name onto something they want to do anyway, like going to Ghana or running a marathon. Rest assured that this is something that I absolutely don't want to do. It sounds miserable.
Water-related projects aren't the most effective form of charitable donation (according to people like GWWC). But I can never quite shake the idea that water is such a basic requirement that we need to try. If you haven't got safe water, you're pretty much stuffed for everything.
I know people make their decisions about charitable giving in lots of different ways. Please don't feel any kind of obligation to make a donation! But if you want to, or if you're the sort of person who mostly gives money to charity when presented with a handy opportunity, then you would be most welcome to sponsor me here:
https://www.wahoo.wateraid.org/uk/event/wateraid-just-water-challenge-ecw
If nothing else, you could consider it a fair price for the right to mock me when you're having a lovely cup of tea, or a nice pint, and I am not.
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Date: 2014-12-31 02:30 pm (UTC)Is there an option to paypal a donation?
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Date: 2014-12-31 02:42 pm (UTC)WaterAid don't offer any PayPal options, which is a bit rubbish of them, but there seems to be a mechanism by which I can add what they call "offline donations" to the page. So if people trust me not to run off giggling with the money (or spend it all on Secret Tea) they can send a donation to my personal email address. I realise that's a bit flaky-sounding, though!
(If you are not a spam robot of some kind, then knowing that my website is blacktreacle.com and my name is elizabeth is enough for you to deduce my email address!)