Charity: water

Rachel Beckwith ( born June 12, 2002 in the United States; † July 23, 2011 in Seattle ) was a girl from Issaquah in the U.S. state of Washington, which was renowned for his generosity for the needy.

Life

With five years of Rachel Beckwith was cut against the wishes of parents her long hair completely in order to donate to " Locks of Love ", an organization that makes wigs for children who have lost about by chemotherapy their hair.

In 2011 she gave up birthday gifts and asked the guests to her birthday invitation, instead nine U.S. dollars for the well construction in Africa to donate. $ 300 they wanted in this way for the charity " charity: water " collect, which aims to supply the population in developing countries with clean drinking water and she had in her evangelical church in Issaquah, a small town near Seattle, met. This goal missed it, but still got $ 220 on her 9th birthday together.

On July 20, 2011, in a pileup on Interstate 90 in Bellevue alone Rachel seriously injured and hospitalized with a traumatic brain injury and spinal cord trauma in the Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Her sister and her mother, who sat with in the car, escaped with minor injuries. In the days where doctors fought for Rachel's life, donated neighbors and school friends in Rachel's name for their service project. Rachel's story spread around Seattle. After a short time $ 42,000 had been donated in their name.

After no more hope of an end to the unconsciousness, voted Rachel's parents turning off the life-support devices. On July 23, she died. Their organs were donated. But Rachel's relief operation was still not over. Pending the completion of the fundraising campaign on October 1, 2011 31,980 people had donated a total of $ 1,271,713. A fountain be built in Africa: For $ 5,000 can be noisy "water charity ".