Giving Back: Spotlight on WaterAid for November - January
As part of my Giving Back Initiative, for the months of November 2020 through January 2021, I will be donating 25% of my playwriting profits to WaterAid. I believe in the social contract of not only helping our neighbors, but also helping any in need, despite manmade borders, whenever we are given the power to do so. I believe in taking personal action by volunteering myself, but I also believe in supporting those who serve on the front-lines across the world when I cannot. This is an investment in humanity, of which we are all a part.
Because of this, I have chosen WaterAid as an organization to support with my playwriting profits for November 2020-January 2021. When you purchase a play, a monologue, or royalties during these months, you are nourishing your own theatrical endeavors and you are also helping provide clean water, hygiene and sanitation to the world’s poorest communities. Read below, from WaterAid, to learn more below about the water crisis in this world, and what WaterAid is doing to make a difference:
Diarrhea caused by dirty water and poor toilets kills almost 800 children a day. A lack of clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene keeps kids out of school, adults out of work and traps people in poverty.
How we do it
We tackle the issue from all angles. We work with local partners to deliver clean water and decent toilets, and promote good hygiene, and campaign to change normal for everyone, everywhere.
Our impact
Together we can unlock people’s potential with clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. Without all three, people can’t live dignified, healthy lives. With all three, they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty, and change their lives for good.
With clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene, children are born healthier. They get the chance to go to school, and grow up to become adults. Women and men get to earn a living. Whole communities start to thrive. It sounds normal and it should be.
In a world with so many competing priorities, WaterAid remains resolutely focused on tackling these three essentials because they transform people’s lives for good.