Exactly two months after Rachel Beckwith's ninth birthday, the fundraising campaign of the Bellevue girl who died in a traffic accident last month has raised more than $1 million to bring clean water to African villages.
There has been an outpouring of donations to charity: water, which brings clean drinking water to people in developing countries, since the story of Beckwith's wish to raise $300 for safe drinking water by her ninth birthday captured the hearts of the local community and the nation.
