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A Revolution of Love

Back on April 20th, I was fortunate enough to be involved with my closest friends in REVO Nashville.

On this night, we simply gathered to support Blood:Water Mission, a Franklin, TN-based, nonprofit organization that promotes clean blood and clean water in Africa by building clean water wells and encouraging community leadership. At this event, my friends and I brought most of (if not every aspect of) our culture together in order to inspire people. Fashion, photography, art, design, and (obviously) music were all under one roof in hopes to ignite motivation and desire for change in Africa.

I'll be the first to admit that I had not even imagined what was in store for that evening.

Four months of planning, which included many sleepless nights and a slightly dropped grade point average, seemed so effortless once the doors opened. People weren't only coming to see musicians or artists or photographers or designers. Sure it was an incentive, but people - in Nashville - were coming to support something bigger than you or I.

We were coming together to support sustained life in Africa.

As REVO Nashville, our hope was and is to inspire a generation to act. We believe that anyone and everyone can plan an event, support a worthwhile cause, and change the world. My participation in REVO has led me to understand more fully my purpose in giving back.

REVO Nashville proudly raised $6,000 for an organization that spends $3,000-$5,000 on a single well for their 1000 Wells Project. If you knew that it only cost $1 to supply one African fresh water for a year, would you act now?

And in writing this, I challenge you to find out what your purpose is all about. How will you give back? How will you change the world?

article originally published on June 22, 2007

http://coolpeoplecare.org/article/2007/06/22/revolution-love/