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Selena Gomez wants you to help support UNICEF’s Celebrity Tap clean water program.

Gomez and celebs like Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Robin Williams all have their likeness on limited edition bottles and when you donate a minimum of $5 to the cause, you are entered into a contest to win one of stars bottle filled with their tap water. And for every $5 you donate, you get one entry – donate $10 get 2 chances to win.

The 18 year-old stars in a short PSA for the charitable organization which shows Gomez filling up with H2O from her home.

“As you know, I’m part of this year’s Celebrity Tap Project for UNICEF,” Gomez says in the vid.

“Myself and many others are collecting our tap water and putting it in these fancy bottles for you guys to win.”

UNICEF’s program helps fund clean water to kids all over. Waterborne illnesses are the second highest preventable reason for deaths in children world wide.

Go here to donate and help kids get clean water. April 30th is the end of the limited edition bottle contest so act fast.

It’s not often sixteen year olds get to sail solo around the world so when one brave teen takes on the challenge, everyone takes note. Abby Sunderland, has attempted the adventure and she has found herself in the middle of not only the Indian Ocean, but a heated debate about what a teen should or shouldn’t be allowed to do on their own.

Sunderland set sail in her yacht, Wild Eyes, in an attempt to be the youngest person ever to circumnavigate the globe non-stop, alone and unassisted. In April she had to stop in Cape Town, South Africa for repairs and while it ended the non-stop part of her quest, Abby continued on after her auto pilot system was fixed. On June 10th, Sunderland set off her EPRIB’s (emergency beacons) after her boat was turned on it’s side and the mast snapped thanks to a storm near Madagascar. A rescue plane has spotted the teenager and her disabled boat and a nearby fishing vessel has been dispatched to pick up the stranded-at-sea teen.

Abby’s father, Laurence Sunderland, is telling reporters that his daughter’s journey is over for now, but the debate is raging on: was she too young to try it in the first place? Should her parents have stopped her? Would waiting until she was eighteen made that much of a difference? It wasn’t too long ago when the world was asking the same questions of Jessica Dubroff’s parents. Dubroff died in 1996 when she attempted a solo flight at the age of seven and was tragically unsuccessful.

What do you think? Is Abby brave or foolhardy? Are her parents supportive of her dreams or way to lenient? Sound off below!

Learn more about Abby on her official blog here and this one that her parents update.

[image: USA Today]