One person CAN make a difference

Date: Oct 06, 2009

So the mighty MOR website has been online for about two hours, and we have had to go to the extreme effort of doubling the target for one of our charities, Frank Water Projects, which took up to a minute of our precious time.

Why so? All because of a certain Liam McLennan http://hackingon.net who with one fell swoop, and a few deft keystrokes at his electronic computing device, donated $1000.

Now because Frank Water Projects are a bunch of boffins (that means them is smart), they don't just hand out bottled water. They go into a village and build sustainable filtration facilities that are owned, run and maintained by the local community, with support workers on hand to provide advice when needed. When you do the maths it works out that about $2 buys healthy drinking water for a person, for life.

So Liam, on behalf of 500 people who will now have safe drinking water, or as you put it, errr, clean beer making water (http://twitter.com/liammclennan/status/4645831259) we thank you. It's people like you who make the world a nice place to live.