Changents.com supports blog action day for water
Changents.com, the leading social media platform that connects people changing the world - Change Agents - with those who help them, is bringing together extraordinary individuals on the front lines of the global water crisis to support Blog Action Day 2010. Blog Action Day, an annual event made possible by Change.org, invites bloggers across the planet to post about the same issue on the same day. Out of this discussion naturally flow ideas, advice, plans, and action.
This year more than 4,500 bloggers in over 130 countries representing an estimated 35 million readers will be writing about the staggering health, economic and social justice impacts of the global water crisis that leaves nearly one billion people without access to safe water. According to Water.org, half of the world's hospitalizations are due to water-related disease, ultimately killing more people every year than all forms of violence, including war.
Alongside NGOs, amazing individuals with bold ideas and unstoppable energy have up-rooted their lives to grapple with the water crisis through their own citizen-led efforts. The following Change Agents from Changents.com will be participating in Blog Action Day, contributing their true stories to create inspirational, highly accessible gateways for the public to support them in their personal quests to be part of the solution.
Christopher Swain is swimming the Atlantic coast on a 1,500 mile eco-trek from Canada to Washington, D.C. Along the way, he is cleaning up local beaches and taking water samples to measure and map the effects of climate change. His freestyle foray takes him through trash, oil slicks, toxic algae blooms, heavy metals, fire retardants, sewage, nuclear waste, riptides, rain, snow, lightning, high winds and shipping lanes. As he makes his way down the coast, Christopher is working with 50,000 school children on projects to improve the health of our ocean planet.
Sol Garcia turned a group of friends into a tour de force in the developing world. Through her efforts to launch eclectic Parties for a Purpose, Sol's efforts have funded 5 wells, providing more than 4,500 people access to clean water in countries including Kenya, Ghana, Peru and India.
Pamela Crane (a.k.a. Pam the Nomad) was born in Kenya where her parents were Peace Corps volunteers. When she was ten years old, Pam lost 10 pounds in 10 days due to a water-born illness. Today she’s fighting alongside Blood:Water Mission to tackle the inseparable link between clean water and clean blood (blood free from HIV). Because those who are HIV positive have unbearably weak immune systems, contaminated water can mean a death sentence.
Cate Cameron's life as a photographer is prone to unexpected twists and turns, but she’s used to being fast on her feet. Cate’s regular gig has her side-stepping lights and dodging equipment on movie sets. Today, though she is traversing the make-believe world of movies with the hard-to-believe world of human crisis by turning her lens to focus on women, water & HIV. Her plan – Cameras for Change – uses photography to reach out to families afflicted with HIV, teaching new skills, giving support, education and allowing people to tell their stories of how access to clean water changes everything.
Stephanie Weaver has been asking people to make their next drink 'A Drink for Tomorrow.' The way she sees it, a beer or a glass of wine is a luxury in a world where a drink of clean water is out of reach for millions. In her twist on Happy Hour, Stephanie has been working with beverage companies to provide clean drinking water in the developing world from the proceeds of sales here in the US. She’s weaving a dream that will take her from a $20,000 initiative today to becoming a major funder of water projects around the world tomorrow.
Rachel Zedeck spent years in the war-torn Middle East and 'passed through' Kenya in 2007 on her way to work on revamping communal farming practices in Southern Sudan...a project that came unglued due to corruption. Physically spent and emotionally raw, Rachel hatched a plan of her own design that focuses not on feeding a nation, but giving a nation the power to feed itself. To take on the water crisis in Kenya, Rachel is assembling and distributing the backpack Farm, a portable 'sack' filled with high tech eco-tools to help rural farmers produce bumper crops...sustainably.
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Changents (http://changents.com), the leading Internet site connecting exciting individuals changing the world—Change Agents—with those who help them, focuses on the power of charismatic individuals and their ongoing personal stories to build online communities led by Change Agents. Changents' social media platform empowers Change Agents with storytelling and team-building tools enabling them to be discovered and supported by people and companies everywhere. Today Changents is proud to be helping more than 300 Change Agents working across 35 countries - including artists and adventurers, entrepreneurs and inventors, musicians and first responders, athletes and activists. Changents creates powerful consumer engagement programs that enable leading companies to partner with charismatic Change Agents who are on the front lines tackling social and environmental issues that are central to a company's social responsibility priorities.
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