These Beautiful Structures Are Providing Life-Changing Drinking Water
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Italian architect Arturo Vittori is creating beautiful structures that collect the humidity from the air to provide clean drinking water to communities that lack it. His organization, Warka Water, is working in developing countries around the world to change lives and improve global health.
Warka Water has successfully raised money via crowdfunding on CaringCrowd, a global health-oriented crowdfunding site proudly sponsored by Johnson & Johnson.
Preliminary Interview with Arturo Vittori, the president of Warka Water Inc.
The following is a brief pre-interview that provides context for the recorded interview you may watch or listen to at the top of this article.
Crowdfunding page: caringcrowd.org/build-warka-tower-haiti-phase-8a
What is the purpose of your crowdfunding campaign?
To provide potable water, sanitation and hygiene to rural communities.
More about WARKA WATER INC:
Twitter: @WarkaWater
Facebook: facebook.com/WarkaWater/
Website: warkawater.org
Warka Water Inc. is a nonprofit organization based in the U.S. that focuses on innovative and sustainable solutions to some of humanity’s most enduring problems through the fusion of local knowledge and resources, visionary design, and ancient traditions.
For-profit or Nonprofit: 501(c)3 Nonprofit
Arturo Vittori
Photo credit: Gabriele Rigon
Arturo Vittori’s bio:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArturoVittori
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arturo-vittori-a457351/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/warkawater/
Arturo Vittori : (Viterbo, October 1, 1971), Italian Architect, Designer and Artist, co-founder and director of the research and design studio Architecture and Vision and CEO of the american non-profit Warka Water Inc. and founder the fashion brand Culture a Porter. After graduating from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Florence, he gained experiences collaborating with architects such as Santiago Calatrava and Jean Nouvel. From 2002 to 2004 he was Manager of Cabin Design at Airbus, in Toulouse (France), taking part in the cabin design for the first A380 aircraft; from 2004 to 2006 he worked with Future Systems, collaborating with Anish Kapoor in the design of the Monte Sant’Angelo subway station in Naples, (Italy), while in 2006 he practiced yacht design at the London-based studio Francis Design.He has spoken at numerous international conferences on the topics of aerospace architecture, technology transfer and sustainability, and also taught and lead workshops on a variety of related themes. Vittori has been teaching Industrial Design, at the First Faculty of Architecture “L. Quaroni“, University of Rome La Sapienza, Product Design at the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University Iuav of Venice and Architecture at the IIT, Illinois Institute of Technology of Chicago.
Preliminary Interview with John Brennick, the Co-Founder, CaringCrowd of Johnson & Johnson.
The following is a brief pre-interview that provides context for the recorded interview you may watch or listen to at the top of this article.
Crowdfunding page: http://caringcrowd.org
What is the purpose of your crowdfunding campaign?
CaringCrowd’s mission is to help fund projects that improve health and save lives.
More about Johnson & Johnson:
Twitter: @CaringCrowd
Facebook: facebook.com/CaringCrowdPublicHealth/
Website: caringcrowd.org
CaringCrowd(R) is a crowdfunding site 100% dedicated to global public health. Individuals who want to support public health can browse projects that need funding and make a pledge to help. Any 501(c)(3) non-profit can submit a project and funding goal for consideration on the platform. Then, submitted projects are reviewed by a team of advisors to ensure they fall within our definition of public health. This platform was created by Johnson & Johnson as a driver for collaboration on global public health, and as a new way to bring funding to organizations tackling key public health challenges on the ground.
For-profit or Nonprofit: For-profit
Projects: jnj.com/caring-and-giving
John Brennick
Photo credit: CaringCrowd
John Brennick’s bio:
Twitter: @JohnBrennick
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/john-brennick-208712/
Instagram: @caringcrowd001
John is a native of Boston and Germany and studied finance at Wharton and strategy at Yale. John brings to bear more than 25 years of entrepreneurial, non-profit and global healthcare industry experience. John is passionate about innovation and access to healthcare for everyone in the world.
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