The UNICEF Tap Project comes to Bakersfield!

For World Water Day, March 22, The United States Fund for The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has initiated the Tap Project, a campaign that asks patrons of participating restaurants to donate as little as $1 as payment for the water they receive for free. $1 will allow UNICEF to supply drinking water to a single child in the developing world for 40 days, or 40 children for one day. With the Tap Project, UNICEF hopes to help all of us approach the UN Millennium Development goal of reducing by half the proportion of humans without access to healthy drinking water by the year 2015. Currently, over one billion (that's 1,000,000,000) persons worldwide live in such conditions; 2.6 billion live without access to basic sanitation. These conditions kill more than 4000 children every day.

Two restaurants in Bakersfield have agreed to participate, and we hope you will support them. Casa Munoz will participate on March 22nd, and Tailgater's will participate for the week of March 16th-22nd. The greater the success these restaurants have, the more likely they and others will participate in the project next year. You are, of course, also welcome to donate to UNICEF directly at unicef.org to help alleviate the suffering of so many who do not have access to a basic resource that we as Americans scarcely need worry about.

To participate, simply be seated and your server will mention the Tap Project. Should you agree to participate, your donation will be added on to your bill, and be forwarded to UNICEF after March 22nd.

Thank you so much, we hope that you join us in this important campaign!

The participating restaurants are:

Casa Munoz

1736 Union Ave.

661-861-1625

Participating March 22nd

Tailgater's

900 Truxton Ave

661-322-9888

Participating March 16th-22nd

For more information, please visit:

http://www.tapproject.org/

http://www.unicef.org/

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

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The UNICEF Tap Project comes to Bakersfield!