{"id":1055,"date":"2012-10-09T18:22:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T01:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2012-10-09T18:22:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T01:22:24","slug":"we-helped-bring-water-to-850-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2012\/10\/09\/we-helped-bring-water-to-850-people\/","title":{"rendered":"We helped bring water to 850 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I asked people to forgo birthday presents and instead help me raise money to help fund project to provide clean drinking water to communities in developing nations. Together, <a href=\"http:\/\/mycharitywater.org\/p\/myprojects?member_id=31493\">we raised nearly $600<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I received an email with an update on where our money went. We have helped fund two projects in Ethiopia,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mycharitywater.org\/p\/myprojectsview?project_id=ET.GOH.Q3.10.062.217&amp;campaign_id=5564\">Edagabir Village<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mycharitywater.org\/p\/myprojectsview?project_id=ET.GOH.Q3.10.062.223&amp;campaign_id=5564\">Mai Kumel Village<\/a>, both of which were completed this month. Because of your decision to help me raise this money, we have helped 850 people have access to clean, fresh, easily accessible water.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out the individual project pages to see where your exact donation went to.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you everyone for making this possible. This gives me a happy heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I asked people to forgo birthday presents and instead help me raise money to help fund project to provide clean drinking water to communities in developing nations. Together, we raised nearly $600. I received an email with an update on where our money went. We have helped fund two projects in Ethiopia,\u00a0Edagabir Village\u00a0and\u00a0Mai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volunteering"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-h1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":799,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2010\/07\/22\/my-37th-birthday\/","url_meta":{"origin":1055,"position":0},"title":"My 37th Birthday","author":"Kim Siever","date":"22 July 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"All of my birthdays have always been about stuff. 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