We Won: Let's Celebrate Together
It feels like this has been a long time in coming, but today is it - the official announcement that I won the Give Health Blogivation through Changents. My blog post won, but it is really something we won together. Thanks for voting! The behind the scenes conversation since the competition ended in late August has been about my "come from behind win" or "sprint to the finish." For most of the competition I remained in 2nd place, but in the final days, you rallied your family, friends, and coworkers so that, together, we could win. There were 35 bloggers, and the competition reached more than 3 million people in more than 80 countries. Your efforts raised my blog to the top.We won, but what does that mean? Your votes are having this incredible impact:
The collective votes during the Give Health Blogivation account for 21,099 days of clean drinking water that will be given to people in need through P&G's Children's Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) program - our votes account for 8,893 (42%) of those days.
P&G will give $15,000 to Blood:Water Mission to support our work in safe water. $1 equals 1 year of safe water for an African, so this is safe water for 1 year for 15,000 people (or 5 years of safe water for 3,000 people).
I will travel to Africa in November with the CSDW program to see the impact it is making through its on-the-ground partners. I will be blogging during this trip to bring you along as much as possible so that we can share this story together.
I have become a Change Agent - this is an incredible opportunity to share my story, share Blood:Water's story, and rally people together to support safe water development in Africa.
We won, but what now? Your voices came together - let's keep doing that today:
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