Waterlution’s was established in 2003 with the purpose to inspire pattern-making and pattern-breaking change towards a healthy and sustainable relationship with water. At the core of our work is the belief that by engaging future young leaders with mentors directly, we are facilitating the development of powerful leadership skills, effective community building, and directing passion into focused and purposeful action.
This is evident in our Canadian and international workshops, youth advisory board, art/water learning projects and Water Innovation Labs. Waterlution’s facilitation skills-building methods have engaged 8000+ participants with the transformative skills needed to find their water voice and boost them into becoming leaders in the future of water innovation.
We are working in Canada, Brazil, Middle East, and India at local, national, regional and global level. Our main themes are next to water, environment, capacity building, leadership training, youth and indigenous people.
Our beneficiaries are rural, urban and peri-urban water stakeholders, youth and young water leaders, graduate students and different levels of government.
Currently we have a staff of 8 persons and our budget is $700,000
Milestones (over the years, related to Women and/or Water Issues):
• We Trained 825+ youth (60% young women) across 10 Water Innovation Labs (WILs) in leadership and regional water issues (in Canada, India, Scotland, The Netherlands, Portugal, Brasil , Australia and Lebanon). In 2019, we are adding training in Mexico.
• 60 local or regional water innovation projects have emerged from WILs tackling environmental, social, technical and cultural needs
• Since 2016, we have trained an annual cohort of youth to lead our Canada-wide youth advisory board, whom after their training, lead the Great Waters Challenge or the Great Canoe Journey workshops in elementary and secondary schools across all parts of Canada
• We designed and delivered a new initiative – Greatness - The Great Lakes Project to bring awareness around the importance of the Great Lakes to 40 million Canadians and Americans, our first signature project, Great Art for Great Lakes commissions arts to work with community members on permanent, meaningful artworks that connect stories and people with their water bodies.
• We are Increasingly delivering more programming/training for Women and Water Innovation to increase women’s leadership. Start-ups and community projects.
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This is evident in our Canadian and international workshops, youth advisory board, art/water learning projects and Water Innovation Labs. Waterlution’s facilitation skills-building methods have engaged 8000+ participants with the transformative skills needed to find their water voice and boost them into becoming leaders in the future of water innovation.
We are working in Canada, Brazil, Middle East, and India at local, national, regional and global level. Our main themes are next to water, environment, capacity building, leadership training, youth and indigenous people.
Our beneficiaries are rural, urban and peri-urban water stakeholders, youth and young water leaders, graduate students and different levels of government.
Currently we have a staff of 8 persons and our budget is $700,000
Milestones (over the years, related to Women and/or Water Issues):
• We Trained 825+ youth (60% young women) across 10 Water Innovation Labs (WILs) in leadership and regional water issues (in Canada, India, Scotland, The Netherlands, Portugal, Brasil , Australia and Lebanon). In 2019, we are adding training in Mexico.
• 60 local or regional water innovation projects have emerged from WILs tackling environmental, social, technical and cultural needs
• Since 2016, we have trained an annual cohort of youth to lead our Canada-wide youth advisory board, whom after their training, lead the Great Waters Challenge or the Great Canoe Journey workshops in elementary and secondary schools across all parts of Canada
• We designed and delivered a new initiative – Greatness - The Great Lakes Project to bring awareness around the importance of the Great Lakes to 40 million Canadians and Americans, our first signature project, Great Art for Great Lakes commissions arts to work with community members on permanent, meaningful artworks that connect stories and people with their water bodies.
• We are Increasingly delivering more programming/training for Women and Water Innovation to increase women’s leadership. Start-ups and community projects.
www.waterlution.org
