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EMPOWERMENT THROUGH AN ARTIST’S LENS​​​​

17 May 2021

Smiling girl pouring water (photographer: Viviane Sassen)

Over the past few years, renowned Dutch fashion photographer Viviane Sassen has visited Madagascar and Nepal to capture the Acqua for Life global water initiatives in action. Her time spent in these intimate spaces cumulated in impressionistic photographs and a film that convey the transformative impact clean water has on the daily lives of local communities.
Through her joyful and optimistic lens, Sassen’s work illustrates the intrinsic connection between water and life, the emblematic promise of a future underlying water’s protean presence.

NEW HORIZONS

Looking to the future, Acqua for Life (with its strategic partner WaterAid) is committed to expanding its engagement with communities around the world to deliver universal access to safe drinking water. ​

Young woman in profile (photographer: Viviane Sassen)

‘My work is to give new life to mothers and new-borns. It is difficult for us to give them life if there is no water. We now have a filtered water facility here which protects us from different diseases. Drinking water is easily available.’ -GAYATRI, 22

In Madagascar, Acqua for Life is working in two communities, Anjepy and Manjakandriana, which have no access to clean drinking water. In these specific districts, Acqua for Life will continue to work with WaterAid to bring a clean water supply and sanitation services to three schools and healthcare facilities, helping over 17,000 people. Madagascan vanilla, an ingredient that is found in a number of Giorgio Armani fragrances, is produced and harvested further north of these regions, as part of a sustainable fragrance sourcing program of local ingredients to help local communities in the protected area of Loky Manambato.
The United Nations recognized access to water and sanitation as a human right in 2010. Since then, Armani’s Acqua for Life has helped over 450,000 people. By 2030 Armani’s Acqua for Life aims to be a source of clean water for 1 million people.

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