Founded more than a decade ago by Erin Huber Rosen, the Cleveland-based nonprofit Drink Local. Drink Tap. aims to educate people about the importance of clean drinking water and help make it available to more people. It’s worked with local partners in Uganda to bring clean, safe drinking water and improved sanitation to schools, orphanages, villages and slums. Here in Cleveland, it hosts beach clean-ups and its signature fundraiser, 4 Miles 4 Water.
The organization is now releasing its first book, titled Make Waves 4 Change: Develop Your Action Plan to Change the World. It gives teens ages 12-18, a group that’s often passionate about environmental and social issues but may not know how to make a difference, a blueprint for action. It shares things they can do now to make a better world and help people instead of sitting around feeling deprssed and helpless.
“This action planning book builds on the Wavemaker Curriculum Drink Local Drink Tap launched earlier this year and encourages young adults to change the world one action at a time,” they say.
The book was written by Huber, Kristine Noll, and Stephanie Smith, drawing on their collective experience in climate (especially clean water) activism. Make Waves 4 Change is available for purchase now. Go here.
drinklocaldrinktap.org/wavemaker/book/