wurld - change our world

With the tragic events in Christchurch as a result of their 2nd large earthquake, lack of drinkable water has become a serious and immediate concern.

We were moved to use our bottled water stock to help if possible and spent many hours trying to get a donation down there in the day after the quake. Managed to get 500 bottles in with a George FM collection drive which was fanstastic, but our 3 pallets of 3,600 bottles were too much for them to handle with their transport resources.

Got a call in the small hours of this morning (24th Feb) from the Govt emergency centre asking us to move our 3 pallets of donated wurld water to Whenuapai airbase. The RNZAF is airlifting supplies down to Christchurch. Wurld water is specifically going to used for the fire service and rescue teams, true heroes in these crucial hours.

Who would’ve thought our wurld water would be needed in rescue sense in New Zealand. Gives an insight in to the reason we do this, that many millions of people face water shortage issues every single day, and in some cases every single day of their lives. Sobering.

We just found out that our first clean water project in Salesatele, Samoa is now finished! That’s what we’re about, bringing clean water to those who need it.

Erica who hosted us there writes – “The village covered the spring from contaminants and put rocks around where water came out from the spring to make it a true pool of water for people to collect water. The cover will keep the water clean and free from debris.”

So project #1 is done! We’ve begun looking for a new one to support and it’s by people buying wurld water that we can keep doing this. If you can help us, or know someone who can, please get in touch with us.

Got nothing to do this Friday night and call yourself a youth? How about you head along to the THINK – POWERING YOUTH EXPO event and pick yourself up some wurld water while you’re there!

Here’s the promotional blurb.

FREE EVENT

ENTERTAINMENT BY:

* Drums of the Pacific (drummers to the Warriors)
* FLEP (Family Life Education Pasifika)
* DZIAH (NZ’s Hip Hop Champs)
* and more

ACTIVITIES:

* Adventure Run
* Henna Tattoos
* Photo Booth
* Pole Jousting
* and more

INFORMATION STALLS from Youth Providers

FREE FOOD/DRINK AND BE IN TO WIN AN IPOD TOUCH AND HEAPS OF AWESOME GIVEAWAYS!

SUPPORTED BY: Manukau City Council, PHAB, Otara Health Inc, NZAAHD and Flava Fm

An Event NOT to be missed – see you there!!

Hot on the heels of last month’s tree planting for the Kaipataki Project, community planting day round two took place on Saturday. Unlike last month though, this planting day was wet, wet, wet, made it a lot easier to dig holes though! Was still a great turn out, and after the gathered group dug 800 holes and filled them with native New Zealand trees, we huddled around a BBQ and filled our hungry tummy’s.

We’re on the look out for more opportunities to volunteer, so if you’ve got something you need help with, please get in touch and we’ll see what we can do.

A few of us wurld’ers joined with dozens of others to plant trees at a local planting day, organised by the brilliant team at Kaipatiki Project. Together we planted 800 trees and then ate our way through sausages, salad and soup, perfect!

Why not find a local planting day near you…?

A quick welcome to any visitors from the Auckland Mainly Music conference. We hope you enjoyed the conference, and your bottle of wurld water too of course! Please recycle it when you’re done, but it can take a lot of refills before then. If you need some more, here’s one way to get some more.

But why not have a look round here first, then visit us on Facebook, and follow us on twitter. We’re a friendly bunch, so any questions fire away, here’s all the ways to get in touch.

Thanks to Mainly Music for supporting wurld water, and helping us get closer to bringing clean water to more people.

Nathalie Hofsteede of givealittle.co.nz mentioned us in her presentation at Connect Now. If you’ve arrived to to check us out, stick around, explore the site and learn a bit more about what we’re trying to do.

The best background pages on wurld are Our Story and Our People.

We at wurld want to have an impact on the lives of others, people like those living in Salesatele Village in Samoa, where we have sponsored a clean water project.

We’re fully transparent in all we do, we’re a charitable business with a burning desire to help others through providing consumers a different brand of something they already buy, and brand where the ’shareholders’ are those who need help. Together we can change our world. Thanks for visiting!

Jared

Our Day 5 event for March had an early hiccup, there was some miscommunication with the Beachhaven Parent Centre around start times for their yard clean up in preparation for their big opening. We were only able to help out for about 30 minutes, and we just weren’t happy with this as it wasn’t really helping enough!

So we organised to do some collecting for Plunket later in the month for their annual appeal down at the local mall here in Birkenhead. Who wouldn’t want to give money to this friendly wurld director!

This Easter weekend, wurld water is being sold at the Reflections on Easter event at the Rawene Centre. This free event uses art and contemporary media to follow the dramatic events in the life of Jesus over that first Easter week.

There’s a cafe on site, and that’s also where you’ll find wurld water! For more details see the flyer below and here’s the Facebook event too.

We at wurld wanted to recognise World Water Day, the 22nd of March every year. We decided to organise a march, something that allowed us to walk in the shoes of those who have to collect their water every day, and walk many kilometres to do so. This work is usually carried out by women and children, those least able to handle the heavy loads carried. Could we do it, only one way to find out, fill our vessels and start walking!

Why did we do this? We wanted to visually raise awareness of the issue, and it was important to us to march somewhere local to us, where we live and play. The where was harder, wanted to link it to fresh water even though we are surrounded by salty seas here in Auckland. And it would be great if it was also fresh water that you probably wouldn’t drink. After a good hard think we discovered Lake Pupuke was just perfect! Even better it was a 6m walk around it, about the same as the average distance a villager in Africa walks every day for their water.

So on Saturday the 20th we marched the 6km around Lake Pupuke with different sized vessels full of water, all sorts were on show, milk bottles, jerry cans, buckets! Click the play button on the slide show above to get a flavour of the march. (You can make it full screen by clicking the four arrows on the bottom right of the slide show).

We’re going to make this an annual event, so mark Saturday, 19th March 2011, in your diaries now!