KindtoKidz is very excited to have signed up to a new charity project called  'The Spring' run by the awesome Charity: Water. Each month we will be giving a donation to help bring clean water to every single person across the globe. 

The brilliant idea behind 'The Spring' is this -- just as we subscribe monthly to music and media services for our own entertainment, 'The Spring' affords us the opportunity to subscribe to a monthly campaign that helps others. 

Diseases from dirty water kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. 

Furthermore, mainly women and girls from rural villages spend hours every day walking to collect water for their families. This keeps them out of school or takes up time that they could be using to earn money.  Access to clean water means education, income and health - especially for women and children.

After initially feeling skeptical about the legitimacy of this charity - some further research revealed this was in fact an authentic and solid organisation, performing life saving work. The amazing thing is that they give 100% of funds you raise to those in need. Administration and other running costs are funded separately by private donors, foundations and sponsors. You can read more about it here. 

One of the most touching stories shared in the video above is of a special 9 year old girl, Rachel Beckwith. Rachel skipped her 9th birthday party and gifts to raise money for charity: water - to help kids across the globe that she'd never even met before. Her goal was $300 and she managed to raise $220 - enough to help seven people. She was disappointed that she didn't reach her goal. 

Tragically though, not long after her 9th birthday, she met a tragic death via a car accident. Soon, knowledge of her selfless act of donating water on her birthday spread around the world, and more than 31,000 strangers began to donate $9 or more to her online water campaign. Her $220 turned into more than $1.2 million, funding 143 water projects in Tigray, Ethiopia for 37,000 people. 

Soon people around the world, inspired by Rachel's selfless act started running their own birthday campaigns in her honor - raising a further 1.7 million for clean water.

On the first anniversary of her death, Charity: Water founder, Scott Morrison, took Rachel’s family to Ethiopia to meet all the villagers who now had clean water because of Rachel. You can see the footage of this emotional moment in the video above.

We felt very inspired by this story and this video and hope you can join 'The Spring' too.