NEWS

March 30, 2009
View the blog with a day by day itenerary of Moshi's journey with the water team as they dig a borehole in search of water.
Click here to view.

JUNE 20, 2007
CBC Television coverage of the walk for water.
Click here to view.

JUNE 19, 2007
CBC radio coverage of The Water Project.
Click here to listen.

Our Business Plan
A steering committee has been formed to help make Queen Victoria's
well in Tanzania a reality.
The first draft of the plan is now available. Click here for the PDF document.

APRIL, 2007
Moshi has returned from his home village of Sori, Tanzania, with letters written to Queen Victoria students by the school children. They are written in their native tongue, Irangi, and translated into english.
SEE THE LETTERS >>

APRIL, 2007
See photos of the school children writing letters to the Queen Victoria children and collecting water here.

The WATER Project

WE DID IT! QUEEN VICTORIA SCHOOL IS GOING TO DIG A WELL ON MARCH 24th, 2009! LITTLE PEOPLE CAN DO BIG THINGS.

Visit the daily blog where we will be posting a day by day itenerary of Moshi's journey with the water team as they dig a borehole in search of water.

a small inner-city elementary school on Vancouver's east side, recently completed an extensive, school-wide, interdisciplinary study of water.   An original musical play about water, written by the children with the help of teachers and artists in residence, came next.  The play was a major success and proved to be a catalyst that made the children aware of issues surrounding water on a global level.

As a result of this process, the idea of raising funds to build a well in Africa was born.  Contact with Moshi Changai, a Tanzanian who agreed to manage the project, was established through one of our Queen Victoria families. A business plan was developed. Fundraising began.

Project Overview

2009:
GLOBAL EVENT
On March 22nd we are challenging ourselves to limit our personal water consumption to ONLY 20 liters for the whole day, as we think about our friends in Cheku, Tanzania while they dig 120M into the earth in hopes of finding water.

Each of the 4000 people in this village will be able to consumer 20 liters of clean water a day. Our average daily water use is 330L per day!

Two years ago Queen Victoria started this project with a dream and after two years of fundraising and planning, we are now finally at the point where we are ready to dig the well.

We are going to dig March 22nd, 2009 - on World Water Day! Little people can do big things.

Thanks to our entire community to making this possible and I hope you will join us in limiting our water consumption as our friends in Tanzania dig! It is an incredible day and one in which we can all be proud! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=57083830679&ref=nf

2009:
LIFE'S BASICS ~ COMMERCIAL DRIVE & FRIENDS CARE”
February 8, 2009
An event organized by Organic O’ Canada Inc involving four different venues was held to raise awareness for basic human rights, with the proceeds collected to donate to the Water Project. The event included a kid’s dance, Pan African Forum, sustainable fashion show and live music, as well as a raffle and silent auction. The events were held at venues along Commercial Drive – the Grandview Legion, A Small World, WaaZuBee & the Libra Room. This event helped to bring our community together to support a very important cause. Total Funds Raised: pending

2ND ANNUAL QUEEN VICTORIA BARNDANCE
Friday, November 21, 2008
LIVE music from The Cloudfarmers and Perry's Garage at the Grandview Legion
6th and Commercial A fundraiser for The Water Project to build a well in Tanzania.

FUNDRAISER FAMILY DANCE & COMMUNITY EVENT - I Love Water
February, 2008
At this dance, organized by Organic O’ Canada, families enjoyed music by local musicians, a silent auction and a raffle in the Queen Victoria Annex gymnasium. Total Funds Raised: $2286

1ST ANNUAL QUEEN VICTORIA BARNDANCE
October, 2007
Queen Vic sponsored another fundraiser, The Barndance. The Cloudfarmers and Swank rocked our local Legion. We made some money for the cause, built community and continued to creat awareness of The Water Project.

WALK FOR WATER
June, 2007
Our major fundraiser, The Walk For Water was a heartwarming success. Media came to cover the event for the evening news as well as an interview with Priya Ramu on the radio show On the Coast. There is a book of photos you can look at located which is located in the library.

Our kids learned something about what it means to carry water and our small community responded very generously, and word began to spread about our project. Cheques and Pay Pal donations arrived, some from people without a connection to the school. Meanwhile, our community began sending unsolicited donations; children initiated the selling of lemonade; children actually asked for donations to the well instead of birthday presents.

This water project has become a story: a story about community, about children, about change, about teachers who care, about art, about working together and about the environment. Along with learning about one of our most valuable resources, water, this project is giving children a chance to use their voice to make positive changes within their own communities and the world at large.

It is hard to imagine a more pervasive, more important or more timely topic than water.

Our waterways dictated the historical direction of the exploration and development of Canada as a nation.  The Port of Vancouver and the Fraser River are the most obvious local examples.

The water cycle provides a context to study the dynamic nature of water in its various states (liquid, solid and gas).  Precipitation is a relevant topic, here in the rainforest.  Our dramatic geography presents a perfect teaching model, as moisture laden prevailing winds off the Pacific meet the Coastal Range.  Water is a key to the study of all plant and animal biology. 

Indeed, water is the essence of life on earth, the medium of our genesis.

Water is a much taken for granted resource, especially here, with the abundance of water on the BC coast.  Indeed, we know our modern “city kids’ are especially prone to assume water is free and unlimited.  You just turn a tap.   It behooves us to make kids aware of the many industrial and domestic uses of water.  Indeed, the state of our water is an indicator of our ecological health, both as the inevitable medium for pollution, but also as a graphic measurement of the advancement of global warming.

It appears that water will increasingly become an object of industrial and political maneuvering in the future.  This social political reality of water is of huge significance to us as Canadians, sitting on a significant proportion of the world’s supply of fresh water.

Water is also a source of tremendous source of joy for people.  Kids love to play in it.  Water provides numerous recreational activities about which people are passionate.   Whether it is a river, a lake or the ocean, we love to sit beside it, look at it, listen to it and smell it.  Moreover, we love to imagine the hidden mysteries and romantic histories of water.

DONATIONS

Moshi R.Changai

Moshi R.Changai was born in Kondoa, Tanzania and is our liaison to Tanzanian NGO KICHECO in Africa.

For more information about the water project CONTACT US.

FUNDS RAISED
We have raised over $25,000.00 to build a well with moshi. CONGRATULATIONS QUEEN VICTORIA SCHOOL!

Drilling starts March 22nd, 2009, WORLD WATER DAY!

DONATE
The project is now accepting donations via Queen Victoria Annex which is part of the Vancouver School Board. All donations over $50 will receive a tax receipt.

Please mail your donations to Queen Victoria Annex School at 1850 East 3rd Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5N 1H2