Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli (english: Live with Water) is a charity founded in 2006 in the Hamburg quarter of St. Pauli. Viva con Agua is a network of people and organizations committed to establish access to clean drinking water and basic sanitation for all humans worldwide. Creative and joyful activities raise awareness for the global issues water, sanitation, and hygiene (short WASH) and simultaneously raise funds for worldwide water. The NGO started with a friend circle from Hamburg. Now their offices and locations are not just in Germany, but also in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria, Uganda and since 2020 in South Africa and California. History In 2005 Benjamin Adrion, at the time a midfield player for the regional league football club FC St. Pauli, returned from a training camp in Havana. There he had seen how poor the supply of fresh drinking water was in Cuba. Back in Hamburg again, he decided to do something about it. He mobilised musicians, football fans and bohemians in the Hamburg district of St. Pauli and launched an appeal for donations. Among the earliest supporters of the project were prominent figures like the hip-hop musicians of Fettes Brot and Bela B of the punk rock band Die Ärzte. In cooperation with Welthungerhilfe, it subsequently proved possible to equip 150 kindergartens in Cuba’s capital Havana with water dispensers. In 2006, Adrion officially founded the organisation Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli. When he was 28 years old Benjamin Adrion received the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2009. He accepted the award conferred in recognition of special services rendered for the common good on behalf of every single Viva supporter. In 2010 the Viva con Agua Foundation was found to secure the idea and the ideals of the NGO in the long term. Aim and Structure Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli e.V. is a non-profit organization from the city district Sankt Pauli in Hamburg, Germany. The organization is built up as an "open network" which means that it mainly consists of individual initiatives with the support of the organization’s head office in Hamburg. The aim of the association is to provide people in countries with needs with access to drinking water and sanitation. Therefor the organization acts in conjunction with project partner like the Welthungerhilfe (one of the biggest private aid organisations in Germany) and