Sunday, December 20, 2009

African Well Fund Launches Seventh Build a Well for Bono's Birthday Fundraiser

What are you accomplishing for Bono's birthday? For the seventh beeline year, the African Well Fund is giving U2 admirers the befalling to change the apple in account of Bono's May 10 birthday. AWF is application the 70 canicule amid the absolution of U2's new album "No Line on the Horizon" and Bono's altogether to aggregate money to armamentarium baptize projects in Liberia.

Schenectady, NY -- African Well Fund Launches Seventh Build a Well for Bono's Birthday Fundraiser.

What are you accomplishing for Bono's birthday? For the seventh beeline year, the African Well Fund is giving U2 admirers the befalling to change the apple in account of Bono's May 10 birthday. AWF is application the 70 canicule amid the absolution of U2's new album "No Line on the Horizon" and Bono's altogether to aggregate money to armamentarium baptize projects in Liberia.

Donations can be fabricated to the altogether able-bodied through AWF's Build a Well for Bono's Birthday page. As in years past, donors will be arrive to leave altogether wishes for Bono on a basic agenda that will be forwarded to Principle Management.

The 2009 Build a Well for Bono's Birthday fundraiser will account a water, bloom and hygiene advance activity in Liberia. Administered by AWF accomplice alignment Africare, the completed activity will access acceptance to safe bubbler baptize and advance sanitation and hygiene for communities in called districts of Nimba County, benefiting about 7,000 people. Learn added about the activity here.

Access to safe bubbler baptize charcoal out of ability for over 67 percent of Liberian households, with about 76 percent accepting bare sanitation. Many communities in Nimba County do not accept acceptance to safe bubbler baptize because they never had baptize and sanitation facilities, or they were pillaged or fell into busted during noncombatant battle that impacted Liberia for 14 years, according to Africare.

During the endure seven years, U2 admirers accept donated added than $143,000 to Build a Well for Bono's Birthday fundraisers. This money has adjourned projects in Angola, Ethiopia, Uganda and Zimbabwe that accept benefited about 21,000 people.

In the advancing weeks, AWF will be alms bound copy t-shirts and buttons for acquirement to accession money for the altogether able-bodied so analysis aback soon!

www.africanwellfund.org

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