Senior Golfer Tries to “Drive” America to Fund Clean Water Worldwide
DAY ONE IS AUGUST 24, 2021 IN HONOLULU!
Hi, I’m Clay Phillips
I love a road trip and I love golf. I’m going to pay all the costs involved in attempting to play a round of golf in 50 states over 50 consecutive days. I’m hoping to feel less guilty about doing this self-indulgent escapade by making it something of higher value through gathering supporters (you) to give their money for a great cause.
ALL the money that is donated will go toward what may be the best bang-for-your-buck charity available:
Provide clean readily accessible water where there isn’t any!!!
None of your donation will go toward my travel, lodging, food, or golf costs, because I’m committed to paying for the pleasure of attempting this. I START IN HAWAII ON AUGUST 24, 2021 AND WILL END 50 DAYS LATER ON OCTOBER 12 IN SAN DIEGO, CA.
WHY THIS IS A REALLY GOOD CAUSE
Clean water saves lives.
It makes people healthier by eliminating water borne diseases and promoting better sanitation. Diseases from dirty water kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Between 2 to 5 million people die each year from water-related illnesses and over 40% of those deaths are children under five years old. Read the previous sentence again.
Clean water gives people more time.
When people no longer have to walk many miles each day to access water for household tasks like cooking, cleaning, and washing, they are freed to grow food, attend school, enter the workforce, and to better their families, communities and national economies. In Africa alone, women spend 40 billion hours a year walking for water. Yes, 40 BILLION.
Clean water helps end the Poverty Cycle.
As more people are able to enter the workforce and people are healthier, the economy of a country grows and the revolving cycle of poverty is stopped. People and countries become less dependent on “hand-outs” and emergency relief from more affluent countries and become more self-sufficient and independent. The world could also avoid spending $30 BILLION annually on the treatment of preventable, water-related diseases. This isn’t a temporary, short-term fix; it’s a deal changer. I’ve seen first-hand how access to clean water is dramatically changing families, communities, even entire regions; you’ll hear many of those stories in my upcoming social media posts.
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