Dec
STIR Art For Aid An Australia Youth Initiative
Posted under New Artists, |
Stir.org.au is a youth initiative of World Vision Australia, an organization that encourages people to become involved in important world issues. Stir educates and informs people about many concerns from poverty and child exploitation to HIV and unfair trade practices.
Art4Aid www.stir.org.au/art4aid is an art competition that was promoted by STIR, where the group encourages young artists to create artwork that address social issues. Recently Stir.org.au promoted a competition to design posters that are to be displayed on Toilet Doors accross Australia. The idea was to cover a toilet door with artwork that sent a message and the theme was water and sanitation. The objective was to raise the awareness of the problem facing many people of the world who are suffering from the lack of water and sanitation.
"Water is life, sanitation is dignity" writes Roberto Lenton on the Stir website.
There are so many people who have only a fraction of the water that we have to use each day. One flush of our toilets is what the average person living in a developing country uses all day.
It's crazy to think that in the 21st century a resource that is second in importance to oxygen is virtually unavailable to a billion people. As human beings, we've been to the moon and can perform miracles such as cloning, yet we still can't provide everyone with clean water and sanitation that they need.
As global citizens we have the power to change this
The website explains that:
Over 6,000 children die each day due to lack of clean water and sanitation.
Women and children have to walk miles each day to collect back-breaking amounts of water that will only make them and their families sick.
2.5 billion people live without a clean or private place to go to the toilet.
Stir is working to raise awareness about this and many other problems, our congratulations go to the winner of the contest in 2007, Linda P of Plympton of Southern Austrailia who was awarded first prize for her entry entitled 'Face It'.
The artwork can be seen at http://stir.org.au/stir/Content.aspx?topicID=488#2
Motive applauds this initiative and the Stir.org.au organization.
