Congratulations to Immediate Past Duke University CKI President Minerva Thai for winning the CKI Six Cents Initiative fundraising contest! Minerva won a FREE International Convention Registration for raising the most money on the UNICEF Six Cents Portal this year.
Curious how much Minerva raised? Click here!
Live to Serve -- Love to Serve,
--Kristen
CKI members are challenging one another to raise money for the Six Cents Initiative.
Are you game?
If so, check out the UNICEF Six Cents Initiative page to form a team, join an existing one, or sign up as an individual participant. All money raised will help provide clean drinking water to children all over the world. The link to sign up: http://www.unicefusa.org/sixcentsonline
CKI’s Six Cents Initiative with UNICEF is designed to help children get the rehydrating salts they need to survive dehydration spells. But that’s not all. With the money raised, UNICEF also is working to provide long-term solutions for the problem, which includes providing clean water resources through the installation of filtration and sanitation systems. Water filters installed in schools and communal areas can benefit entire communities. Ultimately, the goal is to educate individuals on safe water and hygiene practices, and to provide supplies to produce safe water supplies for communities.
The CKI dues paid member that fundraises the most money on Six Cents Online will receive a FREE International Convention Registration for Birmingham, Alabama 2009!
The goal is to raise more than US$32,025 for the Six Cents Initiative by the end of the 2009 CKI convention. Why $32,025? Because that symbolizes every club raising $61 to buy a family in need a water filter.
Thanks for reading and feel free to contact me should you have any questions :)
Live to Serve -- Love to Serve,
--Kristen
Photo credit: A young girl gets clean water from a tap installed by UNICEF. (UNICEF/HQ05--155/Kathryn Grusovin)
Greetings CKI!
To the right you will see a window decoration by the Circle K Club at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. promoting the Six Cents Initiative. Pretty cool huh?! I was very lucky to have the opportunity to visit GWUCK last April and can attest first hand that they are one remarkable Circle K club -- this is just icing on the cake!
For more information on other cool projects that GWUCK does feel free to click here and if your club is looking for project ideas sell paper water drops or decorate your student union to promote your club and the Six Cents Initiative with UNICEF.
Have a great week!
Live to Serve -- Love to Serve,--Kristen
Dear Friends:
In order to stay healthy, it is important to drink 1.5 to 2 liters of clean water every day. We may think clean water is readily available, but not everyone enjoys such conveniences. More than 1 billion people do not have access to clean water. More than 2.6 billion people around the globe lack even the most basic sanitation facilities. That means one and five children in developing countries are susceptible to diseases caused by bacteria that grow in unsafe waters--and 5,000 die every day.
But there is hope!
As a Circle K member, I have joined CKI and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF's Six Cents Initiative. This initiative is designed to help children get the rehydrating salts they need to survive dehydration spells and to help UNICEF provide long-term solutions to achieve their goal to educate safe water and hygiene practices, and to provide supplies to produce safe water supplies for communities.
With contributions to UNICEF, CKI can help provide:
Click here to visit my personal page.
Click here to view the team page for 08-09 Circle K International Board.
--Kristen
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