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Happy World Water Day, 2011! To celebrate World Water Day, we wanted to take a moment to take a look at what is happening without clean water: 1.1 Billion people do not have access to clean water 42,000 people die each week due to a lack of clean water Of those 42,000, 90% are children under 5 In some African nations, mothers do not name their children until they are 1 year old due to infant mortality rates Clean water can change this. With access to clean water: An estimated 10% of disease burden globally can be eliminated Young girls...

Many times I’ve told myself that I wasn’t going to go there. That I wasn’t going to push this topic. That it wasn’t worth the fight it may bring, but lately, it’s really eating at me. I’m seeing things that just break my heart. Today is one of those days. I found this comment on a facebook post from World Vision, as they asked for support for Japan after the recent earthquake. First off, Japan’s government injected a large sum of cash into their own markets. Not US markets. But that’s beside the point. What breaks my heart here is...

Who Cares? Me. With that out of the way, I want to take a second to make a point about charity. I saw some comments today on Lowe’s Facebook page, where they are giving away $1M. One of the organizations that is up for voting is water.org. I like water.org. A lot. They’re good people. That’s beside the point though… Go check out these comments: http://www.facebook.com/lowes/posts/144071265650674 Here’s what gets me – The argument that the money should stay in the USA. People are saying not to choose water.org because funds will end up being used in another country. Who are we to...

If you follow Three Avocados at all on this blog or Twitter or Facebook, you know that we are an organization born out of a Christian mission trip and founded upon Christian principles. You know that I am a Christian. But I don’t call us a “Christian organization” or a mission. It was actually quite a struggle when starting the organization. Ultimately, it came down to this: I am a firm believer that people’s physical needs must be met before their spiritual needs can be met. I am not a huge fan of tying clean water to the Gospel message...

Born in the US? Congratulations, you won! Roughly 4.5% of the world population lives in the United States. That means you have a roughly 1 in 22 chance of being born here. Those odds really aren’t that bad. Let’s take minute though to look at the flip side of things. Approximately 15% of the world population lives in Africa. That means  your odds of being born in Africa are 1 in roughly 6.5. Now, let’s take a look at the GDP for the United States and for Africa. USA (2009): 14,002,739,000,000 (14 Trillion) Africa (2009): 1,184,000,000,000 (1.1 Trillion) Let’s do...