FAQ

ALL for WATER – WATER for ALL: The global water-cycle connects all of us. For this reason we believe that a solution to the global water-crisis can only be found if we pool our energy jointly.

Viva con Agua (VcA) is an internationally active network. Our mission is to sustainably improve the accessibility to clean drinking water and sanitation in developing countries. By means of creative fundraising-measures (which are fun!), educational events and an ever-growing network of supporters Viva con Agua is supporting water-projects globally. We campaign for a more conscious and responsible use of our most important resource – WATER!

VcA understands itself as the world’s first All-Profit organization – everybody profits- because meaningfulness and fun belong together! VcA is more than a fundraising tool for water projects – it is an open network that invites everyone to participate and to add their individual potential to the collective flow. Together we are changing the perception of charity and fundraising efforts. We want our projects and activities to be both, useful and exciting. Therefore we address people’s energy instead of their sympathy. We are learning, developing and having fun together while helping to create a healthier future society and we take this attitude all the way to our project countries. We are not educating people – we are working it out together.

VcA was founded in the Netherlands in 2015 as a daughter of VcA’s mothership Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli e.V. from Hamburg, Germany. Viva con Agua arose in Hamburg’s infamous district St. Pauli in the environment of the legendary football club FC St. Pauli. The former footballer Benjamin Adrion became aware of the problematic drinking-water situation during a training camp in Cuba, 2005. Subsequently he decided to stand up and do something. At the age of 25 he founded Viva con Agua, ended his career as a footballer and dedicated almost three years voluntarily to VcA, alongside a lot of supporters. The Spanish name, thus, finds its roots in Cuba: Viva con Agua = Life with Water.

Benjamin Adrion gave a speech in Maastricht in 2012, after which Philippe Birker and David Caspers got inspired to become active for Viva con Agua. Out of a variety of motivations, they then decided to start their own foundation called Stichting Love Foundation, to bring the ideas and spirit of Viva con Agua to the Netherlands. In 2015, after the first solid 3 years of the Love Foundation in the Netherlands and beyond, Vereniging Viva con Agua Nederland was founded in order to support and expand the abilities of the already existing network of activists.

It is every single supporter who keeps Viva con Agua alive! Your own ideas and involvement give color and creativity to the VcA cosmos. Do you want to be part of the VcA-network, engage actively or just get some more information? Just send an email to contact@vivaconagua.nl. Viva con Agua is offering you the opportunity to join a local crew or cell in your city or region. You do not have a crew in your area yet? Bring VcA to your town!

The biggest chunk of the donations to VcA are generated by creative actions at concerts, festivals, sports-events and activity at schools. Of course, every other donation is welcome! To see how you can donate, just press here.

Out of about 8 billion people living on our planet Earth today, 2.1 billion do not have access to safely managed clean drinking water and more than two times as many (4,5 billion), are living without access to safely managed sanitation sanitation (WHO, 2018). Water is next to the air we breathe the crucial resource to provide for life and development. For VcA this fact is crucial to our motivation to realize water-projects.

WASH stands for WAter, Sanitation and Hygiene. Water-projects are developed in a holistic approach – always in connection to the creation of sanitation and education of the population about hygiene and health.

Is Love Foundation in your city? Reach out to them. If not, are you super motivated? Then contact us and we’ll help you start a crew!

The money we receive through our actions and donations is split: 80% goes directly to the project in South Africa, the remaining 20% are kept to finance our administrative costs so the organisation can keep on running.