Yes! You are encouraged to identify organizations locally within your community. Waterlution can also support you in finding an organization, and will work with you and the organization to see if it is the right fit. 

We encourage you to apply! There is no minimum level of experience or education required. 

As a general approach, Waterlution does vegetarian as the base, sometimes adding animal proteins and dairy to fit a variety of people. We do our best to accommodate vegan diets and allergies and would work with you on a case-by-case basis. Participants will be sent a form where those details will be included.

There is a limited amount of childcare available for participants with a dependent. If this is something that would enable you to participate, please let us know. There is a place to indicate this on your application. 

There are also a limited number of laptops and ipads available to loan to participants. Waterlution would pay for a laptop to be shipped to you and returned at the end of the program. If this is something that would enable you to participate, please let us know. There is a place to indicate this on your application. 

Yes, meals, accommodation and travel are covered. Waterlution will arrange transportation for participants. Once accepted we will get in touch about booking flights for participants.

Yes, participants will receive a certificate after completing the program.

A service action project, at its core, is one that enables you to participate actively in your community and contribute meaningfully in a volunteer capacity.

Here are examples of service action projects that would be good fits for the Y4RC program: 

• An educational digital product, such as capturing the Stories of Community Leaders or Elders for the community.
• A participatory community art installation that addresses/ helps lessen climate anxiety
• Webinars or workshops that teach a resiliency skill and/or offer key information on climate impacts and strategies to be more resilient 
• Partner with a local water or climate organization that is looking for volunteers or which is wanting to add something new
• Build or contribute to a community garden 
• Develop a water-wise product or initiative for an environmentally focused partner (i.e. a community centre, a local library, a local health care facility, your local tourism office, etc.)

The options are endless! Identify what the needs are and follow your passions and strengths.   

In your own local community. This could be where you live currently or where you are from, but you need to be able to spend time there and it has to be based in Northern Turtle Island/Canada. For media or artistic service placements that are published online, content or themes must feature and/or contribute to your community. 

The collaboratoriums are meant as learning and sharing experiences that connect you to two different locations in the country as a way to inspire and inform your own work. Your service action project does not have to be related to these sites if you are not from there : again, you want to be able to work within and for your own local community.  These place-based learning spaces are also where we will immerse in skill building so that you are equipped to effectively and confidently implement your service projects. Bringing together peers and mentors, they will build your network, give you support, and create a community for action.

Yes, you can absolutely work together as a team. We encourage members of the same community to apply so you can advance your local project together.

Mentors will be met through online sessions and during collaboratoriums. They include Waterlution team members as well as various resource guests. Their knowledge and experience is diverse and we will help you be supported by the person that has the most expertise in the kind of project you are doing or who can help you develop a particular skill you need for your project. 

Yes, as long as it builds climate resilience in your community. Climate change impacts so many aspects of life and we do not want to limit your creativity for what a project could be that would be beneficial to your community’s ability to mitigate, adapt, build knowledge or resilience in its face.   

Impact storytelling means crafting and sharing the story of your project that not only contains information but also have the ability to provoke thought and encourage change.