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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A Wishing Well for Water Projects!
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marinab on March 24, 2009 at 03:12 PM
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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...
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..
yeah, he is an amazing activist and publicist.
he makes you want to be part of his org!
he makes you want to be part of his org!
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