Nisha's Clean Water For All Campaign
Clean Water: A Basic Human Right
My name is Nisha Varghese and on the surface I might look like an average twenty-year-old – I love listening to music, watching movies, writing, reading and talking to my friends – all of which are things people my age do, right? I do all those things and more but, I am at my happiest when I give of myself in whatever way I can at any given moment in time. My journey to happiness began one day when I was watching The Oprah Winfrey Show on which a young girl by the name of Kendall Ciesemier was a guest. There was nothing that was outwardly extraordinary about Kendall – she had ten fingers and toes just like the rest of us – but, one day after watching an Oprah Winfrey special: on the AIDS epidemic in Africa she took all the money that she had, put it in and envelope and sent to WorldVision to ‘adopt’ an orphan and in 2007 Kendall founded an organization called Kids Caring 4 Kids – an organization which aims to raise awareness and money for AIDS orphans and other highly venerable kids in Africa and to inspire kids to care for others in need – which she certainly did. Kendall through her selfless acts reflected to me how great I could me if I could just stop thinking that the world owed me something and in that spirit I created my Clean Water For All Campaign – which began on the 5th March 2010 and ends on the 5th March 2012 – with the following objectives in mind:
1.To raise $6 500 for The Water Project, Inc – an organization that provides clean water to communities all over the world who suffer needlessly without it – by March 5th 2012 and build a well somewhere in the world.
2.To highlight the plight of those who don’t have easy access to clean water.
3.To prove to the world that anybody can make a difference and change the world – even me: a twenty-year-old girl in a wheelchair.
Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease and if you, like me cannot live with that statistic then click on the ‘Donate’ button and donate whatever you can because at the end of the day no act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.