We Water Experience
The decisions of young people today will shape the world tomorrow. Inspiring youth to conserve precious water resources is at the heart of an educational platform called the We Water Experience project, project, based on a virtual classroom designed by Tesouros de Galicia and funded by Inditex in China.
The project aims to inspire students to adopt responsible consumer practices. Through this platform, Chinese schoolchildren aged 12 to 16 learn about water as a fundamental resource for human health, biodiversity and sustainability.
The project’s educational sessions feature a video, available in English, Chinese and Spanish, which presents key concepts such as water cycle, water pollution, and water footprint and explains that imbalances often cause chain reactions in ecosystems - as an example, the warming of the oceans leads to the increase in frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones.
Students are then encouraged to contribute to water and pollution management, even though small actions, such as not wasting food, consuming local products, and using bicycles or public transportation, that, collectively taken, may lead to great results.
Since the project’s inception in Beijing and Shanghai in 2013, the project has expanded today to eight additional provinces, owing to a group of dedicated volunteers invested in the project’s message of instigating global change through local actions.
