Next year’s Students for Clean Water President, Kasey Givens, joined in this promo video for the 10 Days campaign. All of the money raised from this campaign in the fall will go to give a village clean water to drink. Go to the 10 Days website to find out more!
Thanks for Rating!
The registration period for Rate for a Cause has officially closed.
Thank you to everyone who participated!
-Students for Clean Water/Google Hotpot
Rate for a Cause: Help give $40,000 to our charity:water campaign without opening your wallet!
Students for Clean Water and Google have teamed up to bring clean water to schools in developing countries.
For every rating that you give on Hotpot, a new local recommendation engine from Google Places, Google will donate $1 to Students for Clean Water’s charity:water campaign.
They’re going to match up to $40,000!
Here’s how to help us reach that goal:
Step One: Register now at studentsforcleanwater.org/hotpot
Step Two: Go to google.com/hotpot and start rating
New to Hotpot? For more info, follow @HotpotATX on Twitter or join Hotpot on Facebook. Here’s a quick 30-second video about how it works:
The registration and rating period ends March 10. That day, Google’s going to host a celebration for UT students for all their rating efforts and announce the total amount raised. Stay tuned for more party details as we get closer to the date (in fact, if you register, we’ll shoot an invite directly to your inbox).
But before we can party, we’ve got some work to do. Sign up, start rating the places you’ve been on Hotpot, and help us give clean water to people in developing countries.
Say what? You think you can rate 100 places by the end of this whole thing? Do ya? Come on, we dare you!
pancake party round 2
Our first event of the semester, the charity: water pancake party, was a huge success! Hundreds of people showed up to eat pancakes to give people clean water. We raised over $1,500 that night.
This semester, we are raising $20,000 to give a school in a developing country clean water. You can help us do this by donating at our campaign page here.
Thanks so much to everyone who came out! It was an incredible night!
Students for Clean Water is a student-run organization at the University of Texas dedicated to ending the world’s water crisis. We are a group of students that is furious that there are people in this world who are unable to have access to clean water, and we are working to improve their situation.
Join the movement. Meetings are in Parlin 101 on Thursday nights from 7-8pm.
Thanks to our Visual Storyteller, Paige Pharr, for these wonderful pictures.
Together,
Blake Mankin
spring 2011
What is water? Technically it is a chemical substance with the chemical formula H2O. It contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms connected by covalent bonds. It is essential to all human life, and it covers 70% of the earth’s surface.
To Americans, water is something that we don’t think twice about. When we want some, we turn handles and it pours out. Shower heads, sink faucets, fountains, bottles - it is accessible all the time. We don’t question whether or not the water we drink will kill us. We assume that the liquid consumed after we complete strenuous exercise or to satisfy our dry mouths or to fill our nalgenes will be safe.
This is a blessing.
But to 12% of the world, water is something that destroys lives. When they want some they have to walk up to 8 miles to retrieve water that may not be sanitary, and they risk being raped on their journey. To them, it is something that kills children and causes dysentery, diarrhea, and other illnesses.
We are working to erase this divide. We are working so that the 12% of the world that is currently without clean water and adequate sanitation will have easy access to water and adequate sanitation that will satisfy their needs without threatening their health.
This semester, Students for Clean Water at UT is working to raise $20,000 to give a school in a developing country clean water and adequate sanitation for the first time.
Join us in bringing hope to a hurting world by making a donation to our campaign:
amazing
Friends,
I write to you with a humble and grateful heart. Our campaign closed on Sunday, and we officially raised $10,211 for students across the world! Students will now have clean water, bathrooms, and places to wash their hands because of your efforts. You all have done an incredible job this semester.
Imagine this: our organization didn’t exist at the beginning of the semester, and in a few months we have raised an incredible amount of money.
To everyone who showed up at meetings, donated their money, donated their time, organized events, came to events, supported events, stopped at the table, signed our mailing list, expressed interest, prayed for us, or encouraged us - thank you. I don’t even know how to express in words the overflowing amount of gratitude I have for each and every one of you.
We ended the semester with a benefit concert organized by the amazing Martin La Rocca. Thanks to T. Fowler, Katherine Madeley, and The Sound of Substance for playing! Here are a few photographs from the event (photo credit: Paige Pharr):
Together, we are ending the world’s water crisis. We have ignited a movement.
Next semester we will be back with even more passion, more energy, more organization, more structure, and a higher standard of excellence.
With a grateful heart,
Blake
$6,500
We have reached a beautiful point. We have now raised over $6,500 for charity: water and we are showing no signs of slowing down. Last week at our meeting, we heard from a woman named Mashal. Mashal told us about her life without access to clean water in Pakistan.
We also wrote letters to our parents asking them to financially support us in our quest.
Our meetings are always in Parlin 101 on Thursday nights from 7-8pm.
Martin La Rocca gave up his birthday presents and raised over $300 for the campaign. Do you have a birthday that falls during this semester? Give up your presents and tell people to go to www.mycharitywater.org/ut to donate in your honor.
We’re working hard to end the world’s water crisis. Join us. Thanks to Bryce Vandergriff for his beautiful photographs.
Gabby Gonzalez used her love for cooking to provide people with clean water for the first time in their lives. She raised over $100 for the campaign and we are now that much closer to our goal!
You can use what you love to do to raise money for the campaign to give two schools across the world clean water.
first meeting
Our first meeting went incredibly well. Thanks to all who came out to learn how to be a part of what we are doing on campus! It all started with our table. Thanks to all of you who stopped by and listened to what we had to say.
20 people showed up to contribute ideas on how we are going to raise $40,000 for charity: water and we wrote letters to our senators.
John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison, in approximately 3-5 days you will be learning about why we think you should care about the world water crisis.
Thanks to Jonathan McQuitty for the following graphic. Feel free to make it your profile picture and share it with everyone you can.
Can’t wait to see you on Thursday night in Parlin 101 from 7-8pm! Also, be looking for us on campus this week. Gabby Gonzalez wanted to use her love for cooking to raise money, so come buy some of her baked goods so that people can drink clean water!
Love you all more than life itself.
Blake
First Meeting
The first Students for Clean Water meeting at UT will be this Thursday night from 7-8pm in Parlin 101. Come to hear about how you can get involved in solving the world’s water crisis!
Can’t wait to see you there. We need you.
