We women are good grapevine-passers. I love hearing about a great new site or great cause that makes my heart melt. When my wonderful friend ERICA posted this in a note, I had to go leisure around little Noah’s site. Let me tell you, I was painfully choking back the tears. Here is the note she posted:
My name is Heather Hall, but the reason I’m e-mail you is because this might be an interesting bit for your readers and I’m trying to help my 7-year-old son spread his message. He started a business a week ago, there is already just under 1000 Facebook friends on his “fan” page… the momentum is gaining. A heart warming story about an VERY young entrepreneur trying to change the world…
When a week before Noah’s 7th birthday, he heard about kids all over the world who had to walk miles to get drinking water which made them sick. Noah was disturbed by this news, and hoping that he could do something to make a difference, he talked with his dad, Mike, about everything he had heard. After Noah updated Mike on the poor drinking water situation, the conversation went back and forth like this:
“Dad, we have to do something about this!”
Mike replied,“Well, what do you suppose we should do?”
“We should sell coffee mugs because when people drink out of them, they think about drinking and when you think about drinking stuff, you’ll think about water. Then all of the money we make can go to help kids get water that doesn’t make them sick.”
“Well, what is going to make your mug different then every other mug out there?”
“Dad, our mugs are going to help people get clean water, and I’m going to make some really cool themes and drawings.”
“Really?”
“Yea, I already thought of it all; I’ll draw Castles, Wild Bears, and Flowers – ‘cause girls like flowers.”
“Noah, can you draw a wild bear?”
“Yeah, I’m a real good drawer. So can we do it, Dad?” Noah asked excitedly.
Mike answered his anxiously awaiting son, “Sure, I’d love to go into business with a 6 year old!”
As Noah’s dad was teaching Noah how to put together a business plan, they did research and realized that the profits from just one mug would pay for someone to have clean drinking water for the rest of their life!
That is the story of how Noah’s Mugs began. Noah, his dad, and the whole family now print and press mugs and ship them all over North America. And, for every mug sold, another person gets clean drinking water.
You can see the site at NOAHS MUGS .com.
Now, I’ll be the first to tell you, that being a struggling family, we never have a million things overflowing our cabinets, but we have enough to get by and be happy. I told hubby about the site and showed him the masterpieces that Noah has drawn for his mugs. He told me that we needed to support such a heart-warming cause (yes, those were HIS words!), and we will be collecting several from Noah.
I encourage you to take a look around his site. He has a few vlogs on his blog link. I cried. Such a young boy with a heart and drive bigger than you can ever imagine – and he’s doing it all to help others he doesn’t even know.
Wow. How inspirational. I love the heart of a child who cares. I’ll be getting a mug.