"charity: waterbug" for Water Cycle 2010

This traveling waterbug was created to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of Water Cycle 2010!  Its mission is to travel the world and inspire all who find it to go out and follow your passion... You just might make the world a better place by doing so.

Water Cycle 2010 was a cross-country cycle tour of a few young women that started in Portland, Maine, June 2010, and ended in San Fransisco a few months later.  Their mission was not only to complete the trip successfully, but also to raise funds and awareness for an incredible non-profit called "charity: water" that helps people without clean, safe drinking water gain access through constructing wells and other water projects.  The girls DID complete their cycle tour successfully and also raised enough funds to fully sponsor one well and part of another!  In October 2012, the members of Water Cycle 2010, got the word that their wells had been completed.  This TB is to celebrate that mission fully completed, and to recognize that water is our most precious resource.

I was one of the two riders who completed the journey.  The trip was one of the most profound experiences of my life... cycling day after day, meeting incredible people along the way, getting completely pushed to our limits, facing some incredibly horrendous challenges... but also seeing and experiencing some of the most beautiful places and moments ever imaginable.  Now that our efforts have come to fruition with the completion of the wells, we are humbled... honored... and re-inspired.

If you would like to read more about our experience on the road, please check out or blog:  http://watercycle2010.blogspot.com/

To view photos of the completed water projects go herehttp://mycharitywater.org/p/myprojectsview?project_id=ET.GOH.Q3.10.062.149&campaign_id=4889 for .Gereb Buzuh Village, our fully funded project.

And here http://mycharitywater.org/p/myprojectsview?project_id=ET.GOH.Q3.10.062.247&campaign_id=4889 for the Tahtey Sekien School.

To learn more about the organization that allocated the funds, please google charity: water.