Vote on You Tube by this Friday 3-5!

The National Service-Leadership Partnership has selected Charity:Water North as one of 3 high school national finalists for this year’s We Are a Solution: Youth Changing the World Through Service Learning Contest.

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO WIN!!!  Click HERE to Vote for Charity:Water North.

If we win we will receive $500 towards our next service project.

Clarkstown North responds to the Haitian Earthquake crisis

Clarkstown North springs into Action again!

In the three weeks since the earthquake in Haiti first hit, the Clarkstown North community has been working hard to bring whatever humanitarian aid possible to the people of Haiti:

-Clubs such as Helping Little Hands, the Japanese Club, the Italian Club, Varsity Athletes Against Substance Abuse and the Chain Reaction Club have hosted bakesales and concession sales.
-Aspira and Connections clubs have been holding a clothing drive.
 -National Honor Society students sold ribbons, and hosted a dinner fundraiser at Fire and Ice.-The American Sign Language Club and the Young Rebuplicans Clubs have hosted a Change4Change drive.
-Wrestling team athletes and their parents staged a matching fund event that provided funds to a school in Haiti.
-The Heart Club is hosting an informative showcase in the Annex and selling hearts as a fundraiser.
-Global Studies classes will be researching humanitarian aid organizations such as the Red Cross.
-Music Technology classes are exploring the creation of a CD for a fundraiser.
-Individual students have taken it upon themselves to collect change outside of Shoprite (Sam Ritholtz) and hold music benefits (Francis Nimic).

To date Clarkstown North has raised nearly $3000.
Awesome!

Charity Water Looks Back at 2009 Accomplishments

2009.
It’s December 31st, and the world is getting nostalgic as we end a decade. We have this habit of fixing our gaze on the future, looking for the next big thing. But today, we wanted to stop and take a moment to celebrate the impact you’ve helped us make in 2009.

In 2009 we…
grew.
This year charity: water grew almost 40% in a tough economy and raised more than $8.5 million for water projects and operations.

expanded.
Our growing water program moved into 16 countries and included projects in Cambodia and Sierra Leone.

funded.
1,145 new freshwater projects were added in 2009, including 200 at schools and 26 at health clinics.

launched.
mycharitywater.org was born in September ‘09 – a fundraising platform that empowers individuals to start campaigns that raise money for wells. Just four months old and still in Beta, the site has raised over $1.1 million.

tweeted.
@charitywater became the first non-profit to reach more than 1 million followers on Twitter.

gathered.
We were the proud recipients of the first ever global Twestival (Twitter + Festival). People in 207 cities got together to host grassroots fundraising events for clean water, raising more than $250,000.

educated.
In September, the Water for Schools campaign got rolling. We talked to students here about the need for clean water in schools around the world.

got noticed.
We were featured in the media over 100 times, including pieces in the New York Times, CNN and ABC.

Helped 1 million people get clean and safe drinking water.
This year with your help, we raised enough to be able to serve our first one million people with clean, safe drinking water. 1,081,612 to be exact.

Thank you.

-the charity: water team – www.charitywater.org

Don’t want any more email from us? email off @ charitywater.org | charity: water, 200 Varick street, Suite 201, New York, ny 10014

The New York Times Spotlights Water Concerns in the USA

The New York Times has been running a series of front page articles on water purity issues right here in the United States.

This series by writer Charles Duhigg is called:

Toxic Waters: A series about worsening pollution in American waters and regulators’ response

To view articles in this series, click here

Charity Water Video presentation

Last week 15 volunteers from CSHN had the honor of going to the Charity Water Offices in NY to meet with founder Scott Harrison, present our work to his staff, and to deliver our check in person.  Today we are honored again as Charity Water tells OUR story on THEIR website!

Click here to view the video!

Water for Schools: Clarkston High School North from charity: water on Vimeo.

Look what we did NOW!!!

Over the course of the day Social Studies teachers brought their classes down to the laptop stations setup especially for today’s event: Human Rights Day and signing the Article 31 petition to amend the Universal declaration of Human Rights to include the right to clean, free and accessible drinking water a basic human right.

Thanks to the efforts of many, we added:

1,076 signatures to the petition!!!

If you did not have a chance to sign the petition today, no worries.  It is always up. Just go to:

www.article31.org

Tell your friends and family!

Sign the Petition TODAY!!!

Today is International Human Rights Day.

Today is the day that we need to join our voices together to let the United Nations know that Article 31 should be added to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Article 31 would read:

Everyone has the right to clean and accessible water, adequate for the health and well-being of the individual and family, and no one shall be deprived of such access or quality of water due to individual economic circumstance.

Click here to add your name to the petition and get the number of signatures to 100,000!

Article 31-Art in Action

Thank you Adam Leon for creating posters to promote our Article 31 petition signing campaign!  Look for us tomorrow in front of room 608 and 609 to sign the electronic petition to adopt Article 31 to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

What next you ask?!

While our fundraising event is over, and we can take comfort in knowing that a well has been funded and a school community will have access to clean water, there is so much more that can be done.

CLEAN WATER SHOULD BE A RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEGED!

In 1948, the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were ratified by United Nations General Assembly.

These 30 articles guaranteed a broad sweep of human rights across many human endeavors, from Life to Liberty to Freedom of Thought.

Now, sixty years later, recognizing that over a billion people across the planet lack access to clean and potable water and that millions die each year as a result, it is imperative to add one more article to this historic declaration, the Right to Water.

Delivering the Check to Scott Harrison