🏀 💧 🚿 🚰 #JUGLIFE Celebrity Softball Game In West Sacramento 🏀 💧 🚿 🚰

.Chance JaVale McGee chats with PA's Public Information Officers on June 15, 2024, about his journey as co-founder of JUGLIFE and the Water For All Celebrity Softball Game in West Sacramento.. #JUGLIFE #JaValeMcGee #NBA https://www.juglifewater.com/

3x NBA Champion JaVale McGee and Kez Reed's Quest To Educate The World About The Importance Of Water 💧

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Photo Art, Text by T. Ray Harvey and Nisha Britton

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, West Sacramento, Calif. — JaVale McGee and Kez Reed, the founders of JUGLIFE, will hold the 6th Water For Life Charity Softball Game in the luxurious confines of Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on June 15.

The humanitarian event leverages a team of talented professional athletes, actors, educators, political figures, journalists, and social advocates to use their platform to promote an active lifestyle focusing on a primary nutrient ingredient: WATER.

“Water plays a critical role in every person’s success,” McGee said in a written statement. “While most of us are privileged to have overwhelming access to clean water, there is a global population and communities in our own country that lack this fundamental human right. The Water For Life game allows us to have fun and highlight that everyone deserves water to thrive.”

Sacramento Kings Head Coach Mike Brown elected to join three-time NBA Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist McGee, who played for the franchise this past season. NBA Champion and Sacramento Native Matt Barnes is scheduled to play along with former NBA player Baron Davis and former San Francisco 49ers legendary wide receiver Terrell Owens.

Sacramento City Councilwoman Lisa Kaplan and City Councilman Rick Jennings are also on the agenda to appear at the fundraiser. Jennings, who played football for the University of Maryland, won a Superbowl title with the Oakland As in 1977. Dr. Dante Early, the first Black mayor of West Sacramento, is on the list of guests who will join in the fun with the region of Sacramento’s diverse population.

McGee and Reed promote water as the foundation of a healthy lifestyle while also building wells around the world in areas that lack access to clean water. The pair themselves have a complete understanding of drinking at least a gallon of H20 each day.

“I have to support something like this,” Jennings said a day before the game. “I think what JaVale and Kez are doing is essential to our physical well-being. Water adds nutritional value to our bodies but if you look around the world, many people don’t have access to it. We must bring awareness to this issue.”

McGee and Reed have built five water wells and sanitation systems in Uganda and presented water education tours in over 50 schools, making contact with more than 26,000 students across the United States.

It was in 2015 when the pair challenged themselves and other communities to drink water to foster healthy habits. The foundation has run so well in nearly a decade that JUGLIFE recently put shovels in the ground to build a sports complex for the youth in Uganda.

“Water is a building block of the planet and the body,” said Reed, JUGLIFE Co-Founder. “The Water For Life softball game allows like-minded individuals to merge their collective platforms and share that water is critical to life and the best choice we can make in our lives each day.”

According to Drop in the Bucket, water covers about 71% of the Earth, 96.5% of it is ocean water, but only 2.5 % of all the water on the planet is drinkable freshwater. McGee and Reed learned that over 780 million people lack access to clean and safe water worldwide, a water crisis that results in millions of water-related illnesses and deaths. Only 6 billion people have access to clean water.

The limited access to water in Uganda opened McGee’s eyes to how privileged Americans are to get it at any time without the doubt of water being unavailable. McGee said most of the water that is available to people in Uganda is deemed a health hazard.

“These are people who are less fortunate than we are,” McGee told Publicity Agents. “We take things for granted. I feel like we would never drink water out of a water fountain in a park. But (Ugandans) would praise the Lord to have that opportunity. Some of these kids have to walk for miles to get water.”

Most of the kids McGee and Reed serve attend “primary schools” with a majority of them being orphans. Despite their situation and exposed environment, the kids live life the best way they can, McGee said.

“The thing that really humbled me when I first went to (Africa) is that all they are going through, with so much going on in their lives, they are the happiest people and full of glee,” McGee said. “That experience is so humbling that I would recommend that people take their kids to third-world countries so that kids can appreciate what they have and help as much as they can.”

McGee was born in Flint, Michigan. He is the son of Pam McGee, who played for the University of Southern California, an Olympian, and is one of the WNBA pioneers who was on the Sacramento Monarchs roster. Her son with respect calls his mother a “habitual winner.”

JaVale’s father is George Montgomery, a Chicago, Illinois, native who starred for the University of Illinois in the mid-1980s. Montgomery was drafted by the NBA Portland Trail Blazers in the second round but played mostly overseas.

McGee understands the essence of water in more ways than one. His hometown of Flint faced a human-made water crisis, a public health threat that began in April 2014 and continued until June 2016.

The municipal water supply system of Flint exposed thousands of people to dangerous levels of lead, sickened many more, and outbreaks of Legionnaire disease killed over 10 people. Flint is 68 miles northwest of Detroit and 55 miles east of Lansing, the capital of Michigan. Flint has a Black population of 46,600 out of a total of 78,600.

The water crisis gained national attention. McGee said that, 10 years after the discovery of contaminated water, the city and state of Michigan are still trying to correct the matter.

“I still do turkey drives, giveaways, and hand out water in Flint,” McGee said. “But I believe Flint still needs millions of dollars to restructure all the piping but I don’t think all of the money has been allocated.”

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.Article by Tony Ray Harvey and Nisha Britton

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