{"id":799,"date":"2010-07-22T20:32:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/?p=799"},"modified":"2010-07-22T20:32:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:32:47","slug":"my-37th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2010\/07\/22\/my-37th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"My 37th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

All of my birthdays have always been about stuff.<\/p>\n

But this year, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m giving my birthday up.<\/p>\n

I’m turning 37 years old this September, and instead of asking for gifts, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m asking for $37 or more from everyone I know<\/a>. It’s not going to me, though. All of it is going to build freshwater wells for people in developing nations.<\/p>\n

A billion people in the world are living without clean water\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut how much are they really living? Millions contract deadly diseases from contaminated water. 45,000 people will die this week alone. The lucky ones won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, but still walk hours each day to get dirty water to give to their families.<\/p>\n

My birthday wish this year is not for more gifts I don’t need; it’s to give clean and safe drinking water to some of the billion living without it<\/a>. I want to make my birthday matter this year.<\/p>\n

Please join me<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Because of charity: water\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unique model, 100% of all donations go directly to direct water projects costs, and each donation is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153proved\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and tracked to the village it helped when projects are complete.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All of my birthdays have always been about stuff. But this year, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m giving my birthday up. I’m turning 37 years old this September, and instead of asking for gifts, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m asking for $37 or more from everyone I know. It’s not going to me, though. All of it is going to build freshwater wells […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-cT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1055,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2012\/10\/09\/we-helped-bring-water-to-850-people\/","url_meta":{"origin":799,"position":0},"title":"We helped bring water to 850 people","author":"Kim Siever","date":"9 October 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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