Trudeau: Images of Canada's Passionate Statesman on display at the IX Gallery in Toronto from September 23rd to October 16th marks the ten year anniversary of his passing and features over 40 historic images from the archives of the Canadian Press. 10% of the exhibit proceeds will be donated to WaterCan. Images retain for $600 to $850. Find out more!
The Artists in their Environment studio tour will be transforming canoe paddles into one-of-a-kind works of art with 100% of sales proceeds being donated to WaterCan. The "Freshwater Paddles" exhibit will become a stop along the Chelsea-Wakefield studio tour which sees many hundreds of visitors every year. A media preview of the exhibit will take place on October 1st attended by all of the artists, and WaterCan’s Leslie Moreland and Gary Pluim.
The tour takes place during the first two weekends of October(2nd-3rd and 9th-11th) from 10am-5pm. Find out more!
Two short months after announcing the 2010-2011 School by School Fundraising Challenge, students across Canada and the United States have already reached and exceeded the $20,644 goal! Congratulations on this unprecedented effort! Your selfless actions will help to bring the miracle of clean, safe drinking water to 1,680 children, women and men in the rural Bachoo District of Ethiopia. Find out more!
The Collega International Aveda network in Canada celebrated Earth Day, April 22, this year with their fourth annual Walk for Water with a total of 1,800 registered walkers participating in events hosted in 15 Canadian cities raising awareness, and much needed funds. The effort raised $325,000 for Aveda’s exclusive Canadian Earth Month partner, WaterCan, bringing Aveda’s contribution to the charity to $881,256 since 2008. Find out more!
With the generous support of presenting sponsor Golder Associates, Ottawa’s diplomatic community, corporate sponsors (Robinson Consultants, Grey Horse Corporation), media sponsors (Embassy Magazine, Roger’s Television, The Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Business Journal and Capital Style Magazine), dozens of live and silent auction donors and nearly one hundred volunteers, we’re pleased to announce that this year’s dinner raised over $138,805 dollars in support of clean water projects throughout eastern Africa. Find out more!
WaterCan, in partnership with UNICEF, the World Health Organization, WaterAid and others join together to Raise Clean Hands for WASH in Schools. This action calls on decision-makers to increase investments, and on concerned stakeholders to plan and act in cooperation. Every child deserves to attend a school that offers safe water, healthful sanitation and hygiene education. Read the Joint Call to Action 2010 or learn more about WaterCan’s Clean Water for Schools program.
The Honourable Peter Milliken, M.P., Speaker of the House of Commons and Margaret Trudeau, Honourary President of WaterCan hosted a reception on Parliament Hill on March 23 to mark the official launch of Water for Life: An African Photo Exhibit featuring the work of internationally renowned photographer Peter Bregg. A nationwide tour of the exhibit is forthcoming. Find out more!
Congratulations to Natalie Wu of Toronto who has won in our senior category and Damon Fauvel of Regina who is taking the prize for the junior age group. We received dozens of inspirational entries and thank each and every participant for taking the time to think creatively and critically about "water". A special thanks also to the hundreds of individuals who voted for their favorite entries online, thereby showing great support for our youth participants.
WaterCan is proud to have been selected as an official partner of the Ottawa (Mar. 20-21) and Calgary (Mar. 27-28) Go Green Expos, hosted by National Events Management.
A portion of the proceeds of both events will be donated to WaterCan in support of clean water projects.
Don't miss special presentations by Margaret Trudeau, Honourary President, and Gary Pluim, Executive Director of WaterCan. Visit: www.ottawagogreenexpo.com
The generous and heartfelt response to WaterCan's inaugural Gifts of Water campaign this past Holiday Season was nothing short of overwhelming! Thanks to your support, we have now raised 100% of funds ($13,823) required for the Clean Water for Iraara Primary School Project. This project benefits 635 boys and girls in the rural Kyenjojo District of Uganda. Find out more!
Water...it is in us, we need it, we drink it, we play in it, we wash in it....Water is amazing and we want Canadian youth to show us and tell us why you think so! Thinking about water differently is the first step toward valuing, respecting and equitably distributing our water resources in Canada and around the world. Be part of the change! Take a cool photo of water and tell us why it inspires you. Contest closes February 15th. Find out more!
WaterCan is pleased to announce the launch of its Gifts of Water online gift catalogue. This is our green, innovative and impactful solution to the traditional gift catalogue! By giving Gifts of Water in the name of friends and family you’ll help us bring the ultimate gift of clean drinking water and sanitation to 635 impoverished children in rural Uganda. We need to raise $13,823 this holiday season to make this possible. Together, one gift at a time, we can do it! Find out more
Canadian students made an immense contribution to our work last year. In addition to raising awareness, primary and highschool students helped raise enough money ($15,000) to make the Clean Water for Kotetni Primary School project possible, while university chapters raised over $37,600 for projects in Ethiopia! With school back in session we're proud to present our new Challenges for WaterCan@Schools & WaterCan@Universities
Read Article Published in Alberta Teachers' Association Magazine.
Dozens of nationalities were represented at WaterCan's 2nd annual Great Canadian Barbeque and Picnic. The event was hosted in an effort to say thank you to Ottawa's diplomatic community and volunteers for all they have done to support WaterCan over the past year. Read More
LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics (North America), purveyor of natural body products has announced, for the the second time, support for WaterCan through its Charity Pot Initiative. Thanks to LUSH over 1,100 young students attending Dawello Primary and Junior School in Ethiopia will gain access to the most basic needs of life: clean drinking water, basic sanitation and hygiene education. Buy your Charity Pot today!
Receive 36 bulbs of the newly registered Dawson Tulip directly from Holland this Fall. Donated by the Dream Mountains Foundation , this elegant white tulip blooms on a 24" stem and lasts up to 14 days, creating an impressive floral showpiece on the table or in the garden. All proceeds benefit watercan.
Order yours today! Call 1.800.370.5658 or email info@watercan.com for more information.
Collega for Aveda unveiled their Earth Month fundraising total before a packed audience at WaterCan's Annual General Meeting and Awards Ceremony held at City Hall in Ottawa on June 16th. Raffaela Caruso, Sr. Vice-President of Finance and Operations of the Collega group of companies gave a rousing presentation about the 2009 Earth Month Campaign. More than 1,998 walkers registered to participate in 17 walks in major cities across Canada in an effort to raise funds and awareness about the global water crisis.
WaterCan wishes to thank all who participated! Your efforts will help to bring clean water, basic sanitation and hygiene education to more than 11,690 people in eastern Africa!
On a lovely sunny day in May, art lovers and WaterCan supporters stayed inside to enjoy the great outdoors, gathering at the Ottawa restaurant, Prime 360, for a show of Renfrew painter Hugh Malcolm’s recent work.
The artist shared the proceeds from the show with two of his favourite charities, the Parkinson Society of Ottawa and WaterCan –thanks to brisk sales –raising over $1,000 for each organization. Our thanks go out to Mr. Malcolm, the coordinator and WaterCan volunteer, Carol Bell Smith and the “nature” lovers who supported this wonderful event.
WaterCan, is pleased to announce its renewed and expanded partnership with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). The three year program, valued at 2.11 million dollars, will support community-based integrated water supply, sanitation and hygiene education programming to benefit more than 40,000 people living in rural and urban areas of Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. Additionally it will strengthen the capacity of WaterCan’s African partner organizations to plan and carry out high quality water and sanitation programming. Read more
Congratulations and a big thank you to all who participated in making the 2009 Embassy Dinner another great success. With the generous support of Ottawa’s diplomatic community, corporate sponsors, media sponsors and nearly one hundred volunteers, we’re pleased to announce that this year’s dinner raised over $105,000 dollars despite these tough economic times. Read more or view photos
Blooming Forever, a nonprofit organization in The Netherlands and WaterCan supporter, has donated a new Tulip cultivar presently known only by a breeder's reference number. The successful bidder will receive the naming rights and the complete stock of this new tulip variety (commercial value CAD $45,000). The auction is open now and closes May 15 at 12:00 p.m. EST. Follow the link to watch the action or to place your own bid for immortality! Find out more
Margaret Trudeau, WaterCan's Honourary President, has chosen WaterCan to be the recipient of proceeds raised during an auction of her portraits produced for a new television series, Star Portraits, airing on Bravo! Canada, Fall 2009. The portraits will be auctioned at the Joyner/Waddingtons Canadian Fine Art Auction in December. Find out more
World Water Day drew a crowd of well over 100 people to Parliament Hill as staff and supporters of WaterCan and other SWAN member organization displayed over 40 signed toilet seats from across Canada. Speeches made by George Yap (WaterCan), Robert Fox (Oxfam), Kate White (UNAC) and Chris Dendys (Results) drew attention to the dire situation, while Paul Dewar, NDP MP (Ottawa Centre) and Foreign Affairs Critic accepted a signed seat promising to deliver it to Prime Minister Harper.
Join us as we deliver to Canada’s seat of power dozens of signed toilet seats.
The toilet seat petition campaign, “Join the Call, Toilets for All!”, was launched by SWAN Canada, of which WaterCan is a founding member, on World Toilet Day (Nov 19th, 2008) to generate public support in demanding that Canada honor its commitments to address the global water and sanitation crisis. Find out more
In lieu of an admission fee, attendees of Ottawa's Go Green Expo, taking place March 21-22nd at Landsdowne Park in Ottawa, will be encouraged to make a voluntary donation. Event organizers are donating all proceeds to WaterCan in celebration of World Water Day. Gary H.J. Pluim, WaterCan's Executive Director is a special guest speaker at this exciting 2 day event aiming to encourage greener lifestyles. Gary will be speaking on the "Go Green Stage" at 12:34pm on Sunday, March 22nd. Find out more.
Based on the success of WaterCan’s Clean Water for Schools pilot program, we are pleased to announce the launch of Clean Water for Schools: Phase II! Read more
Banner photo credit: Peter Bregg
