by Olivia Allen – Project Lead for Youth Programs It’s been over three years since I started coordinating Waterlution’s Youth Advisory Board (YAB) and accompanying school projects. One of the most exhilarating things about working with youth ages 19-29, is seeing them grow into outstanding young professionals during their youth advisor volunteer term and beyond!…
by Sydney Stevenson, Youth Programs Assistant “Want to go fishing?” is the phrase that starts my summer every year. My brother Kieran is an avid fisherman, and a very skilled one at that. Since he was 3 and caught his first bass off the edge of the rocks in Georgian Bay, fishing has stuck. Since…
Par Helena Vallée Dallaire – Coordinatrice pour les programmes jeunesse Depuis les dernières années, les avenues créatives sont de plus en plus empruntées afin de sensibiliser une audience plus large et diversifiée à la situation environnementale. L’art sous toute forme s’active, soit par son contenu, son message, ses composantes matérielles, ou encore l’orientation de ses…
By Helena Vallée Dallaire – Youth Program Coordinator In recent years, creativity and art have been increasingly used to inform a larger and more diverse audience about the importance and urgency of our environmental situation. Art has activated itself through all of its mediums: whether by using its content, its concept, its material components, or…
By Stephanie Pheasant-Recollet, Youth Programs Assistant Working with Birch Bark had been a long-awaited skill that I had tucked away, during the Spring of 2016. Just last year, that skill resurfaced, but evolved with a newfound understanding and appreciation for the versatile material. With the guidance of my Anishinaabe culture and friends, my daughter (6)…
By Lily Falk, Waterlution Youth Programs Assistant – Lily Falk is working with Waterlution this summer to help kick-start Young Water Speaks, our new youth water storytelling contest. It’s late summer 2014 and I’m walking in a scrubby, birch forest in the Swedish Arctic, watching my new friend Mikael jump around the woods collecting mushrooms.…
By Rosheen Tetzlaff, Summer Youth Programs Assistant at Waterlution Rosheen volunteered with the Waterlution Youth Advisory Board in 2018/19 and is currently working on their youth programming for the summer. She is a recent Environmental & Conservation Science graduate from the University of Alberta and a lover of the outdoors. This year I graduated from…
By Olivia Allen, Project Lead for Youth Programs About a year ago, when the Youth Advisory Board decided to carry forward the Cautious Optimist Project in memory of the wonderful Danielle Moore, my heart was warmed. The fact that the project was envisioned, designed and launched by Danielle, along with how deeply it resonated with…
By Karen Kun, Waterlution President Wow, there has been so much change. It is hard at times to know how we are all going to come out the other side. There is so much to read, absorb, discuss, and depending on one’s circumstance, it seems like there are multiple ways that people are experiencing the…
By Dona Geagea On June 14, 2019, as we closed the final day of the first ever Water Innovation Lab Lebanon (WIL Lebanon 2019) and watched the amazing young leaders pitch their team projects, we were met with exuberance as we reflected on all that we had accomplished. With solid partners behind us offering support,…