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Patch Blog: Visit these Eagle Rock Eateries and Help Save the World!
The UNICEF Tap Project affords us the opportunity to give a child access to safe, clean water for 40 days with just $1.
Thursday was World Water Day, celebrated during World Water Week, which started Monday and will finish Sunday, March 25. What better way to celebrate by visiting , , and ?
For the past six years, UNICEF's Tap Project has made World Water Week the focus to fundraise for children who don't have access to clean, safe water. In my previous blog post, I gave a little information on the national campaign and how you can donate.
This great organization affords us the opportunity to help children across the world in the comfort of our very own dining tables. Restaurants participating in the first initiative of its kind ask their customers to donate just $1 or more, helping provide a child across the world access to safe water for 40 days.
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In my last blog post, I wrote that nearly 900 million people don't have access to clean water and that half of them are children.
Since then, great news has arrived.
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The world has met the Millennium Development Goal target of halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water, well in advance of the MDG 2015 deadline, according to a report issued
Thursday by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO). Between 1990 and 2010, more than two billion people gained access to improved drinking water sources, such as piped supplies and protected wells.
The Tap Project is currently in the spotlight as many blogs, newspapers, and services such as Zagat, OpenTable and the Huffington Post are spreading the news. If you regularly use these services, visit their sites and see which restaurants near you are participating. You can even check the UNICEF Tap Project map, which has all the restaurants that are participating this year even when you aren't in town. You can also check to see if there are any events within the month of April.
Eagle Rock's participating restaurants—the ones that participated in 2011—are perfect to visit during the spell of beautiful weather we’ve been having lately. It doesn't have to end on March 25, so ask your restaurant when they will stop collecting donations—the deadline for turning in collections is on April 30, 2012.
Let's make a reservation to save the world!