I'm lucky that I've never been one for "stuff." And birthday parties are cool, but it's not the gifts I ever cared about, it's my friends.

I'm so fortunate to know great people and that's why this year I want to get everyone involved to do something really awesome.

This year, I'm asking everyone to donate to charity: water.

Most of you know that I've traveled around the world. I've seen first-hand how hard it is to get clean water in developing nations and I want to help.

As I'm turning 28 years old, I'm asking for $28 or more from everyone I know... and all of it is going to build freshwater wells for people in developing nations.

I've set a goal of $2,800. If we hit that, we'll give clean drinking water to 28 families!

I want to make my birthday matter this year. Thanks so much for participating.

Lots of love.
reece

Some stats from charity: water...
A billion people in the world are living without clean water - but how much are they really living? Millions contract deadly diseases from contaminated water. 45,000 people will die this week alone. The lucky ones won't, but still walk hours each day to get dirty water to give to their families.

please note: Because of charity: water's unique model, 100% of all donations go directly to direct water projects costs, and each donation is "proved" and tracked to the village it helped when projects are complete.