Water City Friday, is an event started by a performing arts youth group. They will be holding a live event, showcasing their talent plus hosting performances from other youth's in the UK; all to raise water for a long-term water pump in Sierra Leon.

Join and support this cause by purchasing a ticket to the show, on Friday 19th August. You can purchase tickets on line from the following link:

http://fridaywatercityshow.eventbrite.com

Why have we chosen to do this? Leah, 14 year old aspiring actress tells us why she and her friends are so passionate about raising awareness about contaminated water. "Every Friday we go to our local youth group, down in Harlesden, where we play board games, sports, music workshops, learn how to dance and sometimes play in the park, with our fun youth leaders. One Friday, our purpose for coming to Friday club miraculously changed! This same Friday, because of the good weather, our youth leaders took us to the park for a picnic. We were in the park playing field games and doing olympic sports such as running and playing games like football and british bull dog. After this everyone got tired and began to sit down with some of the other youth leaders. Everyone got tired and very hungry, so it was time to eat! Fried Chicken, fry dumplings and some plaintain.....the best recipe for a crisis like this. By this time, everyone got thirsty, dry throat and desperate for a drink. Our youth leader, then told us five fatal words we will never forget......"Whoops, we forgot the drink", there is NO DRINK?!. It wasn't even three minutes and Taylor started to moan and become angry because there was no drink. Mayhem! She even insisted that she was going to drink from the water fountain, but our youth leader wouldn't let us. Soon everyone got involved and began crying out for a drink and water and crowding around our youth leaders. This carried on for about two more minutes. Then unexpectedly, our youth leader pulled out a pack of sheets from a bag and faced the first sheet towards us and it said "The Water Project".

Our leader than begin telling us about Nakwetikya from Ndedo, Tanzania. She used to have to collect the scarce water available, polluted with animal and human waste, from the bottom of deep and dangerous hand-dug pits. 

This is what she had to drink, (while we were given KA pineapple flavour to drink, while listening to this story) 

Sickness and deaths were common. But life changed when money was raised to build water projects for clean water in her community. 

Our youth leader then showed us a poster with these facts on it:

884 million people in the world do not have access to safe water. This is roughly one in eight of the world's population. (WHO/UNICEF)

2.6 billion people in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation, this is almost two fifths of the world's population. (WHO/UNICEF)

1.4 million children die every year from diarrhoea caused by unclean water and poor sanitation - 4,000 child deaths a day or one child every 20 seconds. This equates to 160 infant school classrooms lost every single day to an entirely preventable public health crisis

After we read this, everyone was shocked and eager to help change the lives of others in this same situation. So, immediately, my friends and I decided to come up with a plan about how we are going to help raise funds. 

After a few brainstorming ideas Tajneek said "let's have a water fight". Which sounded like a great idea at the time...but who would pay to see a water fight? Plus we would only be wasting water and we are trying to respect its value. Anyway so we scraped that idea, then Leah suggested "let's do a dance to raise money". Hmmm? sounds interesting but there needs to be more. Then like a waterfall, everyone started pouring in ideas about what we could do.....Dance, drama, live music, guest presentation and great food"! 

This turned out to be called "Friday Water City Show". 

Join us and support us by coming to see us perform at our show. You can purchase tickets on line from the following link:

http://fridaywatercityshow.eventbrite.com

OR, alternatively you can email us here at; [email protected]
Your support is GREATLY appreciated. For this event, we are raising money towards building a water well in Sierra Leon

Drinking water with human and animal waste contaminations, sounds extremely hard to stomach, so help us help those who have no choice today.