While everyone is preparing for their Thanksgiving meal tomorrow night, I want to help raise awareness in the efforts to help fight the world’s leading health crisis – the lack of clean water and sanitation in developing countries.

With the help of CamelBak water bottles, Water.org has developed a limited edition, reusable, environmentally friendly water bottle this holiday season that can only be purchased at gift.Water.org. 100% of the profits go to support the one billion people suffering from the unsafe water crisis.

Hope in a Bottle gives you the chance to give a meaningful and original gift for the holidays while giving clean water to someone in need. Everyone who buys a bottle will receive a link that invites them to follow the progress of a community that their purchase is going to help.

Cholera is spreading in Haiti as you read this and you have the opportunity to directly contribute to resolving this crisis! 600 people have died already of Cholera in Haiti and that’s not all.

Here are some of the alarming facts about this grave crisis, and you can find more information about the crisis here:

* Nearly a billion people have no access to clean water and over two and a half billion don’t have proper sanitation
* Water borne diseases kill 9,000 people every day; one every ten seconds, mostly small children.
* That’s more lives claimed each year by water related diseases than by guns and wars.
* Only one in three people in the world have a toilet. More have cell phones.
* Millions of children miss school. Countless people live without dignity or the chance to lead productive lives. Communities all over the world have no economic opportunity.
* In many countries, the impact is felt most deeply by women who gather water, care for stricken children, and cope with the ramifications of this life crushing burden.

So what are you waiting for? The best gift there is…it’s giving. So help people help themselves. Help out a community in need of survival. It truly is the perfect gift this season.

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