Water Challenge
2013 - 2014
In partnership with charity: water and Global Nomads Group, Students Rebuild brought clean, safe drinking water to those who need it most. For every 20 handmade beads made by students, one person received access to clean water thanks to matching funds from the Bezos Family Foundation.
Beads raised $500,000 and brought clean water to 19,000 people
In partnership with charity: water and Global Nomads Group, Students Rebuild brought clean, safe drinking water to those who need it most. For every 20 handmade beads made by students, one person received access to clean water thanks to matching funds from the Bezos Family Foundation.
Why the Water Challenge?
Motivation
All living creatures need clean water, especially children.
For many young people, water is a life and death issue. Over 10,000 children die every year from diarrhea because they don’t have access to clean water. Most of those are children under five years old. Things as simple as clean water for restrooms, hand washing, and drinking could reduce water-related deaths and give young people more time to be a kid, spend time with family, and attend school.
For every 20 beads created, 1 person got access to clean water.
Students around the world learned the importance of clean water. Students learned that often women and girls carry the water (weighing nearly 44 pounds!) each day on their backs. Our teams also learned that water is too expensive to buy for families living on $1 a day, and that more than half the hospital beds in the world are occupied by people sick from water related illnesses.
Students handmade beads funded 57 clean water projects.
The efforts of students worldwide helped support the build of 57 clean water projects and provide nearly 19,000 Tanzanians with access to clean, safe drinking water.
We set a goal to receiving 323,460 handmade beads. Your efforts blew past our goal; we received over 800,000 beads and unlocked $500,000 in funding to charity: water from the Bezos Family Foundation.
How to Participate
The ProcessLearn
Explore resources like lesson plans, art guides, and videos that help students explore who they are – their traits, experiences, and stories – and reflect on the shared humanity between individuals, cultures, and communities.
Create
Encourage students to express their vision for a more united world through their choice of literary, media, performing and visual arts, or STEM.
Share
Submit students’ creative works to Students Rebuild. Each submission or student engaged raises $5 to support organizations worldwide that foster connection and champion collaborative change, up to $1 million.
Get Started
New to Students Rebuild?
Quick Start GuideCheck out our Quick Start Guide, which walks you through how to participate step by step and lists all the resources available to you.
What's in it for you?
Aside from raising money through your creative works, every team or participant who submits artwork receives a downloadable Certificate of Participation. You can also request a detailed letter for service learning hours by emailing [email protected].
Mark your calendar!
All creative work must be submitted by May 31, 2014 11:59pm PDT. Ready to make a difference through creativity? Sign up or sign in today!
Water Challenge Progress
$500,000
raised of $500,000 goal
We’ve reached our donation goal!
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creative expressions
Every creative work generated raises awareness of the importance of empowering youth and building bridges! Submit now!
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youth engaged
Choose a Medium
Creativity has the power to change the world, and it’s something that all of us can do. Explore the 5 mediums you can use for your Students Rebuild project.
Literary Arts
Short stories, essays, and poetry.
Performing Arts
Dance, theater, and music.
Media Arts
PSAs, films, and videos.
Visual Arts
Graphic design, drawings, paintings, photography, and memes.
STEM
Robotics, digital design, and games.
The programs your art helps fund
For each Students Rebuild annual Project, we partner with high-impact organizations working on the ground to help strengthen communities worldwide—many of them household names. The funds we donate transform student work into immediate, on-the-ground progress for carefully vetted programs that are evaluated according to the outcomes they produce. In addition to extending our reach and helping our funding make more of a difference, our partners also inform the resources we provide to teachers and students.