Does your family have clean drinking water? What if they didn’t?
A recent poll commissioned by P&G and Walmart found that four out of five (80 per cent) Canadians take clean drinking water for granted and almost two-thirds (65 per cent) of Canadians are unaware that illness caused by lack of access to clean drinking water is a leading cause of death among infants and children in the developing world.
In fact, approximately one billion people do not have clean drinking water, many of which are children in the developing world. As a result, thousands of children die every day. The P&G Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) Program helps provide clean drinking water to these people through a water purifying technology developed by P&G. One small P&G purification packet quickly turns 10 litres of dirty, potentially deadly water into clean, drinkable water.
Nearly 7 billion litres of clean drinking water have been provided by humanitarian organizations across the globe using P&G packets, helping to save an estimated 39,000 lives in more than 75 countries.
You can help!
This April, for every P&G product purchased at Walmart in store or Walmart.ca, P&G will donate one day of clean water to CSDW to help a child in need. Walmart shoppers across the country can make a special difference in someone’s life just by doing their regular weekly shop for their family, both at home AND online!
The challenge:
Involve your family to do one or more good deeds in the month of April! Small gestures can make a big difference in the lives of someone else and it’s a great lesson to teach your children to pay it forward!
What have you done lately to put a smile on someone else’s face? How do you give back to your community?
I donate often to my local library and food bank, but even something as simple as bringing a co worker a coffee or helping a senior down some steps can go a long way!
Speaking of GIVING!!! I have on awesome P&G prize pack to giveaway!
The giveaway includes:
- Tide Pods
- Pantene Pro-V Repair & Protect Shampoo
- Always Radiant Infinity
- Dawn Ultra Original Scent with Active Suds Dishwashing Liquid
- Gillette Fusion ProGlide Power Razor
- Mr. Clean Antibacterial Multi-Surfaces Liquid Cleaner
These are just some of the essential items Canadian families use each day, and can’t imagine living without. By stocking up on P&G products, like these at Walmart or Walmart.ca in April, you’ll be taking a small step to make a big difference.
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Disclosure: I am a P&Gmom/mamanP&G. As part of my affiliation with this group I receive products and special access to P&G events and opportunities. The opinions on this blog are my own.
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I volunteer at the local SPCA
I surprise my kids with homemade baked treats after school.
I help others
I donate to the goodwill regulary throughout the year.
We donate to our unused or unwanted items to charity organizations.
I deliver Meals on Wheels every Friday
I bake treats for friends and family for no particular reason at all.
Just last week we donate 2 cans of powdered Carnation Good Start formula along with 18 ready made bottles and 6 nipples. We donated 4 bags of groceries as well.
I made lunch today for my dad and sister.
When at the grocery store with my girls we always buy some items for the food bank – and we smile at people while there!
This past Saturday we went to a community fundraiser to support a young family whose
lives have been turned upside down. Both the Mother and Father have been diagnosed with cancer and the children are all teenagers. I hope our donation will help them out in some small way.
I like to give back through volunteering. We will soon start hot lunches to feed our high school students.
Since I can no longer stand and walk far I do a lot for charities by phone, I also like to help people out when they are in a bad spot in life and give them a lift up.
I brought in homemade treats to the office, and spent the weekend volunteering at an event focused on the literary community in my area.
I help out at the local homeless shelter.
i paid for someones coffee behind me in the drive thru
I saw a mom with a young baby left all her belongings in the rental stroller. So I ran outside to the entrance to let her know. She happened not to realize! I had put a big smile on her face.
I gave back to the community by donating money to hospitals
I donated to the Foothills Hospital in Calgary, as well as girl guides
I baked cookies for my girlfriend
I tell lots of jokes and make people laugh.
I have invited my senior neighbour who was widowed last year for Sunday dinner every week
oh that is sweet!
We donate to our local salvation army
My aunt just had gotten emergency custody of her grand-daughter and I gave her a big baby tub full of baby items and a diaper genie.
I donated money to the animal rescue that saved my cat.
I volunteer once a week at my local second hand shop.
I do small things like donate to the food bank and to my church; take good used clothing to charities, and recycle. I thank anyone who is helpful or polite to me, and try to be helpful and polite to others.
I give fabulous gifts
I volunteer at an animal shelter and donate to the food bank.
Just today I donated two bags of clothes, shoes and toys to our local shelter.
I volunteered on my trip to Mexico recently to make sandwiches to bring to the people who live in the slums
We love our photography, and we donate our time and pictures to non profit organizations for the purpose of advertising.
I dontate wherever I can.
On rainy days, I’ll go and buy a coffee for the homeless man on the street. I even know how he takes his coffee now!
I brought coffee from Timmy’s this morning and that got alot of smiles.
I say hi to strangers and hold doors open, and always let the elderly go ahead of me, and I donate my stuff I no longer need to Goodwill
I recently moved and donated a TON of stuff that I didn’t need anymore. Hopefully my old things will find a new home 🙂
I just donated clothes to a charity store this week.
I introduced my little grandson to bubbles for the first time.
Donate money, clothes, and I just surprise my Dad with lunch at his work…definitely made his day! 🙂
I volunteer at the food bank.
I help support local charities by donating any unwanted items. Right now I’m helping a friend set up a food bank in our city!
We donate to our local food bank every 2 months.
We donate old clothes and toys to local charities.
I donate to my local food bank.
I volunteer at the church bingo
I donate my time to the church, my daughter’s school and Girl Scouts
I help others whenever and however i can
i carried an elderly woman’s groceries for her.
I donate clothes that I no longer fit to the local Goodwill
I have helped friends with childcare/cleaning to ease the stress on them.
I donate to local charity organizations.
I helped an elderly lady in her car with her groceries
we donate to goodwill
I baked red velvet cupcakes for my grandchildren.
I agreed to do some paintings for my nephews birthday party and I’m helping out with the planning.
I try to give back back daily anyway I can whenever possible. I try to buy local, and donate our extras whenever I hear of people in need.
I donated some spare coins to the Ronald MacDonalds charity
I paid it forward today at the Tim Horton’s Drive Thru and bought coffee for the folks behind me!
I am in charge of taking my neighbor’s garbage out to the dumpster. Her husband died last year, and it’s really the only thing I can think of to be helpful to her.
I cuddle my daughter every morning when she wakes up and she loves that special time together 🙂
I support were ever I can , It always feels so good to pay it forward
I made my niece smile today by telling her the silliest knock-knock jokes. She’s 4, which is the perfect age for knock-knock jokes.
I noticed a friends post on Facebook indicating she was having a bad day. I called her and we talked for about 45 minutes. She was so happy to hear from me.
We try to be helpful to our neighbors.
Regularly donate to the local foodbank
We donate our clothes quite a bit. Mostly the kids clothes with them still growing.
The last thing I did to put a smile on someones face was to bring coffee & cinnamon buns to my co-workers Friday morning.
Help our neighbours by shovelling/sweeping away the snow on their sidewalks (yep – still applies in Spring!).
Cheers.
I volunteer with a local animal rescue and at a family resource centre, but I like to do “everyday” acts of kindness too, like letting the neighbour’s dog out when they’re working late or buying coffee for the person behind me in line
I’m always kind to people, I always make sure I make at least one person laugh per day.
i surprised the kids with pizza and pop last night
Just saying a sincere “Thank you” to a cashier brought a smile yesterday.
sometimes it’s the little things!
I try to be polite and patient when it is obvious someone is having a bad day. I don’t want to add to it, and hope to bring them back to a better place.
I helped out a friend that was stuck and watched her kids for the evening
I volunteer at our Food Shelf – thank you.
I run the Canadian Chinchilla Rescue. It is the only rescue for chins around.
being thankful to cashier and other service people
I gave my seat on the bus to an elderly person.
I’m an elderly person…lol…and I gave up my seat to a man with a tired child
I volunteered to make a whole bunch of home made play doh for my son’s JK class.
Held open the doors for a mom pushing a stroller
We donate anything thats reusable such as clothes, furniture etc
I baked an apple pie for our brand new neighbours
i donate all my sons old clothes
Be by my friends side following an injuury
donate my old clothes to woman shelter with there kids
work at the local food bank. thanks
I don’t do enough but I do donate to local charities and volunteer at our local Earth Day festivities.
i donate to my community animal shelter,right now i am making blankets for the animals
I will always lend a helping hand whenever I can.
I planned a huge surprise party last week for my daughter’s fourth birthday!
I bought theatre tickets for my family.
i paid for coffee for the car behind me. I could see their smile in my mirrors and i saw that they paid for the coffee behind them!
i do volunteer photography for families that have children with life alterning conditions
I volunteer for Homefront Cancer Services in Stoney Creek, Ontario, I make it my mission everyday to do an act of kindness for a stranger
I volunteer with our local Ground Search & Rescue, I am the friend folks call when they want a FREE hand with carpentry, and today I have been sharing my contest links with a stranger’s site. 🙂
I donate clothes and food to my community.
yesterday I surprised my co-workers with some pre Easter treats to brighten up their Monday!
I donated clothing to Salvation Army.
I bought coffee for the person behind me at the Tim’s Drive-Thru.
i bake homemade goodies for some of the older neighbours on my street
I always look for a way to genuinely compliment at least 5 people everyday. It is such a pleasure to see someone’s face light up when genuinely complimented. I also try to ask people about their lives; a family member or event in their lives. We all love to know that someone cares about us and our lives. We give back to the community with our time. We volunteer with many community service clubs and organizations. 🙂
We donate locally. I have also started a local facebook page dedicated to those living with invisible chronic illness}https://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-for-Living-with-Invisible-Chronic-Illness-in-Grey-Bruce-County/222702564597175?ref=hl
I’ve been taking load after load of items to Goodwill. We also pick up garbage in our community.
we always donate clothing and toys and participate in a community outdoor spring clean up
i always say thank you thats the least i can do to put a smile on someone’s face, donate clothes and donate fpc to food bank !!
Hold the door open for someone while smiling, then say “Have a great day!”
I volunteer at the Children’s Hospital as a ward visitor. I read books to pediatric patients and it cheers them up!
I took a friend without a car on a day long errand run.
I like to give back to my community by donating what I can to the local food bank.
A few car seat technicians in our community have started up a group and do car seat clinics and checks now. It’s both rewarding and fun — and we’re helping keep kids in our community safe.
I gave $100 to a friend who was really struggling with income because she is off with PPD. I told her she wasn’t allowed to spend it on anything but fun 🙂
I don’t really like to toot my own horn because I have my own problems also like anyone else, but the other day I was in Tim Hortons, going to the drive thru and another car just beat me to the turn but she let me go ahead of her so when it was my turn, I asked the staff what the lady in the car behind me ordered. Turns out it was multiple things, so since I only ordered coffee, from $5 I told her to put the rest of the balance to her order. It was only like $3.35 but to someone else it is a nice gesture when at least one of the items they ordered was free.
that is really nice Roger!
I help out in the organizations that have helped me grow. Ex. school, sports etc.
I knitted a pair of cozy slippers for the son of my doctor’s nurse and presented them to her. She didn’t know I had knitted them and she was delighted. I love doing things like this. I also donate to the food bank at our church.
Smile and say good morning to others that I may or may not know.
We support our community through volunteering and donating to various charities.
we just had a easter party for 50 homeless kid we made baskets and everything for them it was so cool to see them so happy
that’s awesome!
I took my best friend out for lunch, just because.
i recycle
I donate to the local shelter, buy homeless people lunch, and spread the word about charities in need.
I clean up the garbage on my street every week after the winds blows it away and gabage/ recycling truvk miss it
gave my colleague a card!
I buy chocolates for a friend that lives in the states who i have never met once every 3 months.
I treated my parents to a basket of assorted chocolate! That really made them smile.
I donated used clothing.
I did some spring cleaning and donated 2 bags full of gently used clothes and items to charity.
I volunteer at the food bank.
I put a little note in my husband’s lunch today telling him how much I love him.
We baked cookies and gave them to coworkers
Hanging out with my mom
We donate to the food bank and local homeless shelters regularly
Volunteer at a soup kitchen
I donate items that I no longer use to Goodwill or Salvation Army.
I volunteer at work, for our back to school event, sending children to school with new clothes and school supplies
I always say Thank you to my colleagues at work, for even the littlest things, which relieves stress on our very busy days
I deliever annual fertilizer sale flyers in late winter/early spring for a local church. Several volunteer in order to cover the town and saves them a the huge expense of having Canada Post do it and being mixed into “Junk Mail” type stuff.
I do free annual flower arrangements for my local theatre company and my son;s daycare.
We donate clothes and other things that we either have too much of or don’t use anymore. Also we help others in need with any way we can afford or have extra time for.
My brother is in the hospital and I am cleaning his house and doing all his yard work and planting his early garden, and then there was the game of monkeys in the barrel with my little nephew. I am getting the enjoyment and the smiles are mostly shared.
I pick up litter when I am walking!
We donate children’s clothing, bicycles and other children items.
the big chill
I pick up garbage on the beach