Some of the projects to raise funds for Pure Water for the World are unique.

Here are some examples:

Kids Helping Kids

The Jonathan A. Minkoff A cappella Awards (JAMAAs) committee announced the winners of the 2008 contest. 

A cappella for the World

According to the World Health Organization, 1.7 billion people, 28 percent of the world’s population, do not have access to clean drinking water and must often bathe, clean their clothes, urinate and defecate in the same water that they drink. As a result, 1.3 million children die every year of diseases caused by drinking contaminated water.

Chelsey Reardon, a high school student in Marblehead, Massachusetts and a devoted a cappella performer, is doing what she can to change that.

Ms. Reardon approached the JAMAAs with a novel partnership between the Marblehead/Swampscott Rotary, Pure Water for the World and Daniel Cantor, an audio engineer with Notable Productions.

Her plan: a compilation CD called “A cappella for the World” whose proceeds are dedicated to providing clean, safe drinking water to those in need in Central America and the Caribbean.

The compilation CD will be composed of high school, collegiate and professional a cappella music.

Internationally renown, professional a cappella group, Blue Jupiter has already offered to donate their a cappella dance version of the Elvis classic, “I Can’t Help Falling In Love with You”.

Ms. Reardon’s own group, the Jeweltones, has committed to promoting the compilation at their live concerts.