For the past three years, radio 3 FM has done something called ‘Serious Request‘. Starting tomorrow, radio DJ’s go into a glass house that is situated in The Hague to live there for 6 days without eating. Meanwhile they will play songs requested by listeners, but not for free! Everyone who wants to have a song played has to donate money to Serious Request which will go to a charity.

This year the charity is The Red Cross Water Program. Every year 4 million people die due to the lack of clean drinking water. Every day 4000 children die from the causes of drinking unclean water, ‘simple’ illnesses like diarrhea for instance.

We don’t think of it, but many people in this world don’t have clean water to drink; while we flush our toilets with water that could be perfectly good drinking water. We water our plants with water from the tap or stand in the shower for 45 minutes because ‘it’s so nice and warm’.

So this year 3FM is making a serious request to raise money for the Red Cross so they can create more water pumps and sewers, provide materials to clean water, protect wells against pollution and make sanitary facilities accessible as well as give information about hygiene and health.

Serious Request runs from December 19 to December 24 and for those living in The Netherlands you can see it on TV Channel 1 and 3. For those of you outside The Netherlands you can view or listen to it live online.

I wish Gerard Ekdom, Michiel Veenstra en Rob Stenders, the 3 DJ’s in the house, good luck because it is a hard task to not eat for 6 days (and this year they included no smoking either).

Hopefully they raise a lot of money; because the world screams for water…

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