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A Wishing Well for Water Projects!

Posted by:marinab on March 24, 2009 at 03:12 PM

Scott Harrison, the founder of charity:water, is always working on new creative ways to raise awareness about water issues. In February, Scott teamed up with twitter to organize a Twestival: the first ever world-wide festival organized through Twitter! Over 200 cities hosted the event and collectively raised $250,000 for charity: water. This money will be used to complete 55 water projects in Ethiopia, India, and Uganda.

His latest act of unbridled creativity included an exhibition of photographs in NYC's Chelsea Market. Scott prominently placed various photographs of kids holding bottles of contaminated water and juxtaposing them with kids drinking clean water. A simple comparison, yet it speaks volumes about the situation of millions and what we can do to help!

Yellow canisters are strewn about to show what kind of containers people in Africa use when they walk for miles to a water source. These containers double as donation boxes and all proceeds will go directly to water projects! A wishing well is also part of the ensemble and passersby can drop in a coin or two, make a wish, a help bring clean drinking water to communities.

Btw, did you know it's world water week? This whole week we will be blogging and featuring awesome water-related happenings around the world.



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    Report Inappropriate Content! By EthanA April 12, 2009 at 07:41 AM
Twestival was Amazing! The power of the Internet to get behind a cause and run with it is remarkable. Charity: Water is a great organization and should be a model for how NPs are run...

    Report Inappropriate Content! By AdaJada March 26, 2009 at 01:11 PM
I had no idea who Scott Harrison was until I read this blog.. It sounds like he is doing some interesting work to ensure that access to clean water is not limited to a few..

    Report Inappropriate Content! By marinab March 26, 2009 at 03:08 PM
yeah, he is an amazing activist and publicist.
he makes you want to be part of his org!

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