Water Air Food Awards

Why WAFA

2.7 billion people live below the poverty line, 850 million lack access to safe drinking water and 828 million are undernourished.

It is not the Earth’s capacity to produce food that is causing hunger. It is us.

Global challenges can be solved with local solutions.

Water, Air, and Food Awards target breakthrough low-tech, high-impact, local innovations for clean water, clean air, and nutritious food. WAFA acknowledges and promotes these low-cost solutions so they can be replicated and create a significant global impact.

Each one of us can help make this happen for everyone on Earth – our common home.

To be or not to be sustainable, that is the question.

Our Mission:

Identifying, qualifying and rewarding outstanding and sustainable survival initiatives with a view to enabling scaling and replication.

Our Vision:

We tell more impact stories, disseminate more know-how, share more solutions and inspire to sustainable innovative action through an international awards platform.

Global

WAFA strives to become a global mainstream awards platform that enables exceptional sustainability entrepreneurs to scale and replicate their solutions worldwide, to benefit mankind now!

Engaging

By engaging the global public, business communities, universities, impact investors, and philanthropists in giving exposure and support, we will create a sustainability movement.

Attracting

By bringing their low-tech high-impact solutions to the attention of the global public and professionals, the entrepreneurs will attract support.

Awareness

In this way, we will contribute to creating awareness of the change we need to make to restore people and the planet, on the massive scale needed.

 To achieve this, we are building a solid platform through:

• An even more resilient international team of qualified professionals and volunteers;
• A global legal identity;
• A solid financial base from donations, grants, and public & private partnerships.

Through this platform we:

• Design new compelling Award categories aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals, in particular #1 No Poverty, #2 Zero Hunger, #6 Clean Water and Sanitization), #7 Affordable and Clean Energy, #12 Responsible Consumption and Production, #13 Climate Action, #15 Life on Land);
• Develop regional affiliates to identify local award candidates and partners;
• Develop partnerships with corporations, government agencies, research institutions, impact investors, and philanthropists.

We then proceed to:

• Find “silent heroes” in all corners of the world including the most remote areas;
• Improve our certification and evaluation process by applying our learnings;
• Involve a greater portion of the global public in selecting the Award winners;
• Raise the ‘silent heroes’ global profiles through international Award galas, regional events, celebrity endorsements, global media coverage, and a multifaceted online presence.