Giving Back Update: Spotlight on WaterAid

Thank you for your support of my contributions to the worthwhile organization, WaterAid. I believe in my social responsibility to contribute to a more just, healthy, safe and joyful world. As part of my Giving Back Initiative, every time you have purchased a play, monologue or royalty November 2020 through January 2021, 25% of those profits have aided such programs as WaterAid describes below:

In Nicaragua we have installed handwashing stations for up to 8,500 people in health clinics and other public gathering points such as transit hubs and farmers' markets, prioritising already vulnerable indigenous populations. And we are developing communications messages to reach as many as 186,000 people in urban and rural areas with key hygiene messages in local languages.

In Colombia we have installed handwashing stations reaching as many as 7,000 people daily and more than 1,000 rural households, prioritising already vulnerable indigenous Wayuu populations. We have also developed effective communications campaigns to reach rural populations with hygiene messages in their local language. We have expanded our ‘Ponte Pilas’ handwashing campaign, so we can reach more people more quickly. ~WaterAid America

These efforts are so important, because “4 in 10 households worldwide still don’t have soap and water” [WaterAid America]. Clean water is always a necessity, but during this global pandemic, the need is even more dire, as we know washing hands is a key way to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Learn more about the work WaterAid is doing across the globe, and discover ways you can volunteer with WaterAid.

Visit my Giving Back initiative to see other organizations I am happy and honored to support this year, and stay tuned to learn about Barbershop Books which I am supporting February - April 2021.