This toolkit called Got Water? Was made in attempts to educate and promote self-awareness about the water we use and how fortunate we are to have access to clean water every day. To spread awareness, I have made pins, postcards, and a poster with my logo. The poster is made in attempts to be put around campus or schools so that kids can see it and see the effort being made to bring awareness in the cause. The postcards are something small and something you can write on and hopefully be transferred from student to student and they can see the images and facts printed on them. The pins are something fun and an easy accessory to pin on your backpack or apparel that can bring a lot of eyes to see the logo and inquire about it. Hopefully, this toolkit could be something passed around at schools or shops to prompt people to spread awareness about the water crisis in the world. People in countries like La Guajira, Colombia don’t have access to clean water and have to walk hundreds of miles just to get some kind of water. The Wayuu people of Colombia are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis with the children suffering high rates of malnutrition and death as a result of water and food scarcity. After the enormous Cerrejon open-pit coal mine in 1985, the river the Wayuu people used to sustain themselves has been contaminated and has barely been able to sustain their basic water needs. Sometimes we forget that there are people in other places of the world that aren’t as fortunate as we are and don’t have access to a lot of the luxuries we have, including even the basic human necessity: water. Water shouldn’t be a luxury to these people, we need to keep in mind how fortunate we are and know that saving water is saving life.
