Babies (The Movie) & H2O 4 Africa

A while ago Pam and I took the kids to watch BABIES in the movies, I spent half of the time watching and the other half trying to prevent Fady from eating popcorn off the floor.

After watching it I was left with so many contradicting emotions, the movie tried to emphasize that babies are babies regardless of the environment and conditions they are born into, especially in the first year of their life. I got that, but there was one scene that kept nagging and nagging on me.

In a very cruel contrast, and it might not be cruel to the ordinary viewer, but to a mother with heightened sensitivity towards injustice it does; they showed the American mother get in a hot tub or a jacuzzi with her baby and gets out in few seconds because the baby was startled by the water jets and started crying. Before the end of the movie the other side of the contrast was shown with the Namibian baby being introduced to fresh water for what seemed to be the first time of his life when he was almost ONE YEAR OLD.

I cannot say that the water in the hot tub could've been used as drinking water for the Namibian family for weeks, it doesn't work this way.

But there is a way: if you own a hot tub and you averaged your utility charges then skipped using the hot tub for a couple of times a month you can calculate the difference and donate it to H2O for Africa.

But, I don't have a hot tub... bummer!! or maybe not

So.... I decided for the coming month I'm gonna print coupons and use them when I do grocery shopping, the receipt will indicate how much I saved in each visit, I will sum the savings of the month and donate the amount for H2O for Africa, would that help? a tiny little bit maybe... But I'm hoping that month after month, year after year, my kids will watch Part 2 of babies with their own kids but this time: The Namibian Baby will have access to fresh clean water... and maybe some diapers :-D)