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Two months have now passed since the world celebrated Twestival; events in 185 cities to raise money for charity: water. And what a day it was!

In Bristol, almost 200 of you joined us at The Lanes, one of the city’s newest and most exciting venues, for an evening of dancing, eating drinking, CoolBoard balancing (only those who came will know what that is!) and, most importantly, money raising. In total, we collected £1,510 which is a massive achievement given that we started organising the event less than five weeks before it took place!

If you haven’t yet seen it, here’s the official Bristol Twestival film:

Very often when you give money to charity it’s unclear where your money goes. Not with Twestival.

We kept emphasising that 100% of everything you donated goes to the organisation’s water projects and indeed it has but just in case you didn’t believe us or, more importantly, want to see what a difference your money has made, lead Twestival organiser Amanda Rose and members of the charity: water team this week visited Ethiopia to witness the unveiling of the first Twestival funded well and recorded a series of videos.

You should consider yourself proud because the money you gave us on 12 February - every single penny of it - has paid for the new well unveiled this week and the others which will be constructed over the coming months.

Your money has started to make a huge difference to the lives of thousands of people; people who spend up to four hours a day carrying heavy canisters of dirty water for many miles. To prove the point, watch this video of the charity: water team - healthy, 30-something men - struggling to deal with canisters of water children as young as 11 carry each and every day. 

The next two videos show the unveiling of the first Twestival well. Clean water is something we take for granted in the developed world. We switch on the tap and it’s there. It never enters our mind that one day it might not flow or we’ll have to trek for miles to collect water which is so dirty it could kill us. The footage below is what 12 February 2009 was all about:

From everyone who made the Bristol Twestival happen; thankyou.