What is the full cost of Christmas?
Like many, I don't enjoy the material aspect of modern day Christmas. I find it extremely hard to maintain peace of mind when I see the incredible amount of money that gets wasted on presents, food, fairy lights and other paraphenalia. I read somewhere that in the UK alone we spent over £10 Billion on Christmas...

In one of those wonderful moments of synchronicity, the day I heard this I was invited to a friend's house for dinner and met a guy who works for Wateraid - the charity that helps provide water and sanitation to third world countries. He told me a startling fact - over 1 billion of the world's population is without clean water. Furthermore, for the same amount that the UK spends on Christmas, the majority of those people could have clean water and sanitation - FOR LIFE! Makes you think doesn't it?

To visit the Wateraid website ...click here