Water for water It is our way of providing a grain of sand to balance the tremendous inequality between which we access the water with a single finger blow, and those that have to travel long distances to achieve it.
Water by water is a water rich in solidarity. Every time you buy a bottle in one of our stores Natura, you are delivering directly and without intermediary 50 cents to the NGO Aigua Pel Sahel, an NGO founded in 1991, without paid personnel or administrative infrastructure expenses, which allocates 100% of the funds collected to cooperation with Burkina Faso, country Del Sahel.
We were gathered with María, Montse and Pepe to talk about the project and since Natura We wanted to explain some things about our encounter. Maria and Montse are the founders of Aigua Per Al Alhel and Pepe Navarro is the photographer who voluntarily collaborates in this project. Pepe Navarro's eye knows how to capture the dignity of a lifestyle very little touched by the hustle and bustle of modernity. Sober landscapes of an unmporal purity, the beauty of Sudanese architecture and water understood as a source of life and creator of culture.
Pepe tells us that in his images there are two very different aspects within the theme of water; On the one hand it is about the hope, game and fun that occurs when that country seasonally receives a lot of water; The children have fun, jump, dance in the water and it is a delight to see them, says Pepe. But, after the months, progressively, the Sahara wind is drying those areas and becoming a dry poster. It is then that the toughest images of girls appear with small pumpkins by sticking in the mud, looking for water where there is practically no. They are very sad images but express a part of reality and is the reason for being from Aigua Per al Sahel.
Pepe has always wanted to help in some way to non -profit associations as he did in Medicus Mundi, in Angola in war period, Chiapas, Cabo Verde, Cuba, ... to make social reports and give them to NGOs. Even so, I wanted to help some other NGOs that had fewer resources and thanks to their contacts he arrived in Maria and Montse, that although they did not have many media, they had a lot of inventiveness and eager. He was impressed to see how two women without structure, without their own premises, without name, without advertising, had raised a small solidarity empire, an empire of love; Not at an economic or infrastructure level, and it is that solidarity does not end within the framework of what is Aigua Per al Sahel. Once there, a thousand parallel stories happen and each one takes a personal option. They tell us for example the story of a child who had a heart problem and managed to this. All this led Pepe to offer themselves as a photographer for anything they needed, and just agreed that I arrived at the time they wanted to do something new and in 2000 they made a series of photographs of the wells in Burkina together, which gave rise to an exhibition that still works today ....
This exhibition called "El Camí de l’Aigua" has lasted 14 years, and has traveled all over the world. Now to finish this path, they would like these images to be sold at a symbolic price and people who are interested in the project were taken home, so that a stage can be closed and that another begins. They would also like to allocate part of the money to finance the new exhibition and on the other hand help the Burkina person who helped Pepe to be able to make these images, so I can come here.
Soon they will make a new exhibition that will consist of about 50 photographs that will reflect the reality of Burkina which, Pepe affirms, is multiple; Water, people, poverty, architecture, smiles….
María and Montse explain to us the different ways of collaborating with the Aigua Per Al Sahel project. One of them is buying water bottles in Natura or on the water website for water (http://www.aguaporagua.org/), another way is to contact them to be able to go directly to help Sahel, which she considers one of the most rewarding experiences and facilitated everything Type of contacts for people who want to visit it. On the other hand they are open to any proposal and anyone who wants to collaborate from anywhere. They also have the option of donations, from the most little to donations of large quantity. In total they have performed 115 wells and would like to build many more. Maria tells us that many small NGOs that have disappeared as a result of the administrations that have closed the tap for the crisis and this is a problem that we must all face.
Pepe states that the most important thing is to explain what a well is ... because one imagines a place to get water and there is already but a well is much more, there is a whole process of searching where there can be water, once this water finds it is at 100 meters and you have to be pierced 100 meters down and then cover all the way since it is hygienically very well treated and protected wells, it is not a simple hole to get water ... from there the well constitutes an essential element in The life of the people. These wells are between different villages at 20 km, 15km and at best at 8km. That distance women walk daily to go looking for water. That water has multiple utility, that is, not only is it worth drinking, that water is not wasted; They are washed, how little they can be washed and in many cases they cook with it and the remaining water is destined to the animals so that they do not die due to dehydration. The well becomes an impressive social center, seeing how the people are, relationships are made, peoples that were not spoken are spoken, courtships, stories, the children, the environment ... we could say that it resembles a temple to the point that the flip flops are removed so as not to dirty HIS well. All this makes the social landscape change, children's face, hygiene, feet, clothes, health, joy ... and this is fascinating, this is what It is a well of Aigua Per al Sahel. "Being water, it is much more than water."
"When you are there you really work and I wonder the amount of lives that have been saved since this project works."
Collaborate with your sand gratino buying a bottle of water for water in our Online store or our stores Natura.
We were gathered with María, Montse and Pepe to talk about the project and since Natura We wanted to explain some things about our encounter. Maria and Montse are the founders of Aigua Per Al Alhel and Pepe Navarro is the photographer who voluntarily collaborates in this project. Pepe Navarro's eye knows how to capture the dignity of a lifestyle very little touched by the hustle and bustle of modernity. Sober landscapes of an unmporal purity, the beauty of Sudanese architecture and water understood as a source of life and creator of culture.
Pepe tells us that in his images there are two very different aspects within the theme of water; On the one hand it is about the hope, game and fun that occurs when that country seasonally receives a lot of water; The children have fun, jump, dance in the water and it is a delight to see them, says Pepe. But, after the months, progressively, the Sahara wind is drying those areas and becoming a dry poster. It is then that the toughest images of girls appear with small pumpkins by sticking in the mud, looking for water where there is practically no. They are very sad images but express a part of reality and is the reason for being from Aigua Per al Sahel.
Pepe has always wanted to help in some way to non -profit associations as he did in Medicus Mundi, in Angola in war period, Chiapas, Cabo Verde, Cuba, ... to make social reports and give them to NGOs. Even so, I wanted to help some other NGOs that had fewer resources and thanks to their contacts he arrived in Maria and Montse, that although they did not have many media, they had a lot of inventiveness and eager. He was impressed to see how two women without structure, without their own premises, without name, without advertising, had raised a small solidarity empire, an empire of love; Not at an economic or infrastructure level, and it is that solidarity does not end within the framework of what is Aigua Per al Sahel. Once there, a thousand parallel stories happen and each one takes a personal option. They tell us for example the story of a child who had a heart problem and managed to this. All this led Pepe to offer themselves as a photographer for anything they needed, and just agreed that I arrived at the time they wanted to do something new and in 2000 they made a series of photographs of the wells in Burkina together, which gave rise to an exhibition that still works today ....
This exhibition called "El Camí de l’Aigua" has lasted 14 years, and has traveled all over the world. Now to finish this path, they would like these images to be sold at a symbolic price and people who are interested in the project were taken home, so that a stage can be closed and that another begins. They would also like to allocate part of the money to finance the new exhibition and on the other hand help the Burkina person who helped Pepe to be able to make these images, so I can come here.
Soon they will make a new exhibition that will consist of about 50 photographs that will reflect the reality of Burkina which, Pepe affirms, is multiple; Water, people, poverty, architecture, smiles….
María and Montse explain to us the different ways of collaborating with the Aigua Per Al Sahel project. One of them is buying water bottles in Natura or on the water website for water (http://www.aguaporagua.org/), another way is to contact them to be able to go directly to help Sahel, which she considers one of the most rewarding experiences and facilitated everything Type of contacts for people who want to visit it. On the other hand they are open to any proposal and anyone who wants to collaborate from anywhere. They also have the option of donations, from the most little to donations of large quantity. In total they have performed 115 wells and would like to build many more. Maria tells us that many small NGOs that have disappeared as a result of the administrations that have closed the tap for the crisis and this is a problem that we must all face.
Pepe states that the most important thing is to explain what a well is ... because one imagines a place to get water and there is already but a well is much more, there is a whole process of searching where there can be water, once this water finds it is at 100 meters and you have to be pierced 100 meters down and then cover all the way since it is hygienically very well treated and protected wells, it is not a simple hole to get water ... from there the well constitutes an essential element in The life of the people. These wells are between different villages at 20 km, 15km and at best at 8km. That distance women walk daily to go looking for water. That water has multiple utility, that is, not only is it worth drinking, that water is not wasted; They are washed, how little they can be washed and in many cases they cook with it and the remaining water is destined to the animals so that they do not die due to dehydration. The well becomes an impressive social center, seeing how the people are, relationships are made, peoples that were not spoken are spoken, courtships, stories, the children, the environment ... we could say that it resembles a temple to the point that the flip flops are removed so as not to dirty HIS well. All this makes the social landscape change, children's face, hygiene, feet, clothes, health, joy ... and this is fascinating, this is what It is a well of Aigua Per al Sahel. "Being water, it is much more than water."
"When you are there you really work and I wonder the amount of lives that have been saved since this project works."
Collaborate with your sand gratino buying a bottle of water for water in our Online store or our stores Natura.
