Viva con Agua

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Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli eV
(Viva con Agua)
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legal form non-profit registered association
founding 2006
founder Benjamin Adrion, Lars Braitmayer, Micha Fritz, Tobias Rau
Seat Hamburg
motto Water is life!
purpose Worldwide access to clean drinking water and basic sanitation
Managing directors Tobias Rau, Carolin Stüdemann
sales 4,784,282 euros (2019)
Employees 30 (2019)
Website www.vivaconagua.org

Viva con Agua de St. Pauli e. V. (German: Leben mit Wasser) is a development policy non-profit organization founded in 2006 with headquarters in Hamburg-St. Pauli . The international network of people and organizations advocates safe access to clean drinking water and basic sanitation.

Viva con Agua has existed in Switzerland as an independent association since 2009. Further branches followed in 2014 in Austria, 2015 in the Netherlands and 2016 in Uganda (in the capital Kampala). Viva con Agua South Africa and Viva con Agua California have also been formally in the process of being founded in 2020.

Goals and structure

Viva con Agua is committed to improving the drinking water supply and the availability of sanitary facilities, with a focus on countries in the global south . Welthungerhilfe is the largest partner in projects in the global south . The association sees itself as an “all-profit organization” with an “open network”. The "open network" lives mainly from individual initiative supported by the association.

According to the company, “All-Profit” means that everyone involved should benefit from their commitment, both recipients and supporters. Support is not necessarily seen as a donation, but as an investment in water projects and thus in a better future for everyone. The approach is intended to contribute to a social rethinking of the partnership between the north and the south.

More than 15,000 volunteers worldwide support Viva con Agua, who organize themselves in local groups, so-called "crews", and implement fundraising campaigns. In Germany there are local groups in over 50 cities.

In the first six years, over 2 million euros in donations were collected. According to the company, the project volume for 2019 amounts to EUR 3.6 million. According to the company, the water projects financed in this way have improved the living conditions of over three million people since 2006.

history

First project in Cuba and foundation

In January 2005 the first team of FC St. Pauli traveled to a training camp in Cuba. Activated by the trip, Benjamin Adrion , then a midfielder of FC St. Pauli , wanted to get involved socially in Cuba. With the vision of alleviating the consequences of the catastrophic conditions in Cuba due to the lack of water supply, he laid the foundation stone for Viva con Agua (VcA).

In cooperation with Deutsche Welthungerhilfe , VcA started the first project in Havana in May 2005, where water dispensers were to be set up in 120 kindergartens to provide clean drinking water. By June 2006, over 50,000 euros in donations had been acquired and 153 kindergartens and four sports schools in Cuba were equipped with drinking water dispensers.

In July 2006, the constitution of Viva con Agua de St. Pauli was adopted at the founding meeting. The Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli association was officially founded in September of the same year.

Since July 2007 VcA has been collecting money at festivals by encouraging festival-goers to donate their returnable cups.

Viva con Agua Foundation and social entrepreneurship

In 2010 the Viva con Agua Foundation was established. The purpose of its statutes is to promote development cooperation and environmental protection, public health care, youth welfare and sport. The founding donors were Bela B, Mark Tavassol, Marcel Eger and Renate Eger. The foundation owns the trademark rights to Viva con Agua.

Viva con Agua is a member of the Social Entrepreneurship Network Germany.

In 2020 VcA will support “WASH projects” (water, sanitation, hygiene) in twelve countries, for example in Nepal, Uganda, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.

Connection to FC St. Pauli

Viva con Agua is supported by FC St. Pauli and its fans: The football club is making parts of the Millerntor Stadium available for the “Millerntor Gallery” social art and culture festival that has been taking place since 2011. In addition, the Viva con Agua football club makes it possible to collect returnable cups at home games. After the supporters of 1. FC Nürnberg were able to set up a new donation record for the away block in the Millerntor Stadium every year, since the 2018/19 Bundesliga season the people of Nuremberg have also been collecting deposit cup donations for drinking water projects in Ethiopia in the local Max Morlock Stadium.

Well-known artists such as Gentleman , Clueso , Maeckes , Marteria , Schandmaul , Wir sind Helden and Bela B gave benefit concerts for the benefit of the Viva con Aguas projects. Viva con Agua also works closely with festivals and festival organizers such as the Reeperbahn Festival and FKP Scorpio .

Actions

Deposit cup donation bin

In August and September 2007, the first charity festival was held in Hamburg under the title “Viva con Agua Water Days”. With 5,000 visitors, the event raised 30,000 euros in donations that financed five wells in the Millennium Village of Manigri in Benin. The band Irie Révoltés released a music video in 2007 to promote the Water Days and donated spring mounts in Rwanda. More water days followed in 2009 and 2011.

In 2008, Viva-con-Agua activists marched 1055 km on foot in 39 days from Hamburg to Basel to the opening match of EURO 2008 under the title “Water! March” . The campaign was also the cornerstone for the club's offshoot in Switzerland.

Since 2008, many supporters of the organization have been hitchhiking in the form of a hitchhiking through various cities across Europe in the summer to draw attention to the global shortage of drinking water. This movement became the Club of Roam Autostop in 2014! eV founded, which continues to organize the tram running until 2017 and collected donations for Viva con Agua until 2017.

Viva con Agua is represented at many festivals in German-speaking countries. On site, 10 to 40 volunteer supporters, among other things, accept deposit cups from the festival visitors. In 2012, more than 90,000 euros in donations were collected for the association's projects at over 70 festivals. In 2019, Viva con Agua collected more than 1.3 million euros through donations of deposit cups at festivals and concerts.

In 2018 Viva con Agua started the #waterisahumanright campaign together with photographers. By spring 2020, almost 200 celebrities had been photographed for the campaign. Since June 2019, Snapchat and Instagram have also had a filter with the "Water-is-a-human-right" cardboard sign.

Also in 2018, Viva con Agua launched the “#kickshit Challenge” together with Goldeimer. During the event, a roll of toilet paper had to be juggled with the foot for as long as possible. The aim of the fundraising campaign was to raise funds for VcA and Goldeimer sanitary projects.

Social entrepreneurship

Viva con Agua Wasser GmbH

Gold bucket toilet paper and Viva con Agua mineral water

Viva con Agua Wasser GmbH, founded at the end of 2010, sells bottled mineral water under the Viva con Agua brand. The association Viva con Agua eV has a 20 percent stake in the company, and the foundation owns a further 40 percent. 40 percent of the GmbH are owned by private investors via Viva con Agua Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG who, according to the association, do not pursue any profit interests.

The Viva con Agua mineral water is produced under license by the Husum mineral spring. It can be obtained from wholesalers, beverage stores, retailers and restaurants throughout Germany. The association receives license fees, the amount of which depends on the number of bottles sold. In addition, the association receives profits from the GmbH. In 2017, the company sold over 20 million bottles of water across Germany. According to its own information, over 35 million bottles were sold in 2019.

In 2017 the Viva-con-Agua mineral water expanded into the Swiss market via the licensee Goba AG .

Goldeimer gGmbH

Goldeimer gGmbH, founded in 2014 , initially operated mobile compost sanitary facilities at music festivals. The company achieved a turnover of around € 33,000 at 12 events in summer 2014. Since 2016, recycled toilet paper has also been sold under the “Goldeimer Klopapie r ” brand . 20 cents per pack go to the sanitary project of the cooperation partner Welthungerhilfe. The toilet paper is manufactured and printed by Wepa Hygiene Products in Mainz. The printed toilet paper also serves as advertising space for the projects that users support with their purchase. In the spring of 2020, Goldeimer started to produce mouth and nose protection masks. 2.50 euros per mask go to the Corona emergency aid fund of Welthungerhilfe. According to the company's own information, more than € 43,000 in donations were collected within a quarter.

The ownership structure of Goldeimer gGmbH is identical to that of Viva con Agua Wasser GmbH.

In 2017, Goldeimer was nominated for the Next Economy Award in the Change category, as well as for the Zeit Wissen prize, courage for sustainability. In 2018, Goldeimer received the KfW Entrepreneurship Award as a state winner in Hamburg and was awarded the “Sustainability Project” award.

Viva con Agua ARTS gGmbH

Viva con Agua ARTS was founded in 2016. The non-profit GmbH developed from the Millerntor Gallery and works with a large network of volunteer artists and creative people. The Millerntor Gallery is a four-day international art, music and culture festival. It has been held annually in Hamburg's Millerntor Stadium since 2011 . The event was initiated by Viva con Agua together with FC St. Pauli . On average, the artists donate 70% of the proceeds from the sale of art in the context of the Millerntor Gallery.

In addition to the Millerntor Gallery, Viva con Agua ARTS supports Viva con Agua projects with the organization of events and art projects.

Awards

Web links

subsidiary company

Independent Viva con Agua associations abroad

Individual evidence

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