2009 - International Poster Contest on 'Water and Culture'

Prize winning poster by Rutusha Nagaraj, Cathedral School, Bangalore.

RUTUSHA has been selected for the Karnatake State Award for Child Talent in Art. She will receive this honour on 14th Nov 2009.

In celebration of World Water Day, 2009 over 3000 students from 8 different countries and throughout the United States participated in the 2nd annual International Poster Contest sponsored by Nature’s Voice Our Choice. 

The theme for this year’s competition was ‘Water and Culture’.  Water is esteemed by every culture in the world for its spiritual, ceremonial, scientific, agricultural, recreational, and life giving values.  The ways in which water is celebrated and used varies greatly between communities of different regions.  Educators were encouraged to spend time speaking to their students about the different ways in which water shapes their lives, culture, and values; finding examples in their community.

The poster contest is the first phase of NVOC’s 'Students Give Water a Voice' Program; a three phase project that focuses on giving students an opportunity to combine art, education, scientific exploration, problem solving, social skills, community involvement, and volunteerism into one project that addresses community water resources.  This program is aimed at showing students the multi sector approach needed to solve community water resource problems and empowering them to find solutions.

Each of the winning students will now have the opportunity to participate in the ‘action phase’ which involves creating a community water committee, identifying a community water resource problem, and designing and implementing a solution with technical and financial assistance from NVOC.