Plovdiv Soroptimist Club Annual Ball 11-13.12.2009

Programme

11.12.2009

10:00 – 16:30 Welcome at Sofia Airport, transportation to Plovdiv;
Welcome in Plovdiv
18:30 – 19:00 Check in at Bulgaria Hotel or Odeon Hotel, Plovdiv
19:00 – 22:00 Dinner and Christmas Charity Ball at Trimontsium Hotel

12.12.2009

07:00 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 13:00 Guided tour in the Old Town of Plovdiv and Soroptimist project:
”Water is life” – club Plovdiv (our enormous project, aiming to reconstruct 8 fountains for drinkable water in the city of Plovdiv)

Visits to:
Roman Amphitheatre
St. Konstantin and Elena Church
Arts Gallery
13:00 – 15:00 Shopping and sightseeing in Plovdiv
15:00 – 17:00 Free time
17:15 – 18:00 Transportation to the village of Brestovica - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brestovitsa,_Plovdiv_Province
18:15 – 21:30 Dinner and Wine-tasting at the boutique Wine-cellar Todoroff –
http://www.todoroff-wines.com/new2/en/index2.htm
21:30 – 22:15 Transportation back to Plovdiv

13.12.2009

07:00 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:30 Departure or visit to Bachkovo Monastery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachkovo_Monastery

Note: For people arriving on Thursday – December 10th, 2009, an additional tour guide of Sofia will be organized
For people leaving on Sunday – December 13th, 2009, an additional tour guide to Bachkovo Monastery or Starosel Tracian Tomb will be organized


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Package price: 195 Euro / per person

Price includes:
Dinner and Christmas Charity Ball at Trimontsium Hotel;
2-night accommodation at Bulgaria Hotel in Plovdiv;
Transportation from Sofia to Plovdiv and back;
Dinner and Wine-tasting at the boutique Wine-cellar Todoroff;
Guided tour in the Old Town of Plovdiv.

Any extras are to be paid additionally on site:
Accommodation on Dec 10th /Thursday/ or Dec 13th /Sunday/
Entrance fees to historical monuments
Guided tour in Sofia
Guided tour to Bachkovo Monastery or Starosel Tracian Tomb


Contact person: Assoc. Prof. Dilyana Vicheva, MD, PhD (president of the club Plovdiv); email: dilyanav@yahoo.com

With Soroptimist greetings - Dilyana Vicheva, president 2008-2010, club Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Learning from Durban –How to manage water and sanitation in our cities

ARTICLE from switchwatersummit.wordpress.com

The city of Durban has a water supply and sanitation utility run by a company called Ethekwini Water and Sanitation Services. It provides 900 million litres of water per day to around 400,000 connections in the Durban area. It collects 500 million litres of wastewater per day and treats it all in 29 decentralised wastewater treatment plants.

There are several interesting ideas being tried out by the utility which needs a close study by water utilities in India.

As a pro-poor policy the utility is committed to delivering 6000 litres of water a month free to households as part of the South African governments policy of treating water as a human right. It does so by providing a 200 litre poly-tank in every household which is filled up every night between the hours of 12.00 and 2.00. Every family is thus given access to 200 litres of water daily, without any connection charge or meter charge. Of course subsequent water is metered and charged on an Increasing Block Tariff based on consumption.

READ FULL ARTICLE on Switch Water Summit

Water Should Be A Human Right

ScienceDaily -- Experts argue that -- despite recent international objections -- access to clean water should be recognized as a human right. At the March 2009 United Nations meetings, coinciding with the World Water Forum, Canada, Russia and the United States refused to support a declaration that would recognize water as a basic human right. But this flies in the face of considerable evidence that access to water, which is essential for health, is under threat, argue the editors of PLoS Medicine.

Read article here:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090629211809.htm#

Sanitation: Health, Dignity and Development

This video is shot by a local African reporter in Ethiopia. The envisioned project, by HORCO and supported by Women for Water Partnership, aims to capture & protect 2 springs, construct 2 water distribution points, and train women in sanitation, primary health care, horticulture production & small scale business operations. You can support and follow this project online on the Akvo platform at: http://www.akvo.org/rsr/project/50/

and visit Soroptimists Go For Water to find out how investing in sanitation strengthens health, dignity and development.

Fabien Cousteau: Our Water Planet, Our Health; Part 1 Video by Soroptimist International of Europe - MySpace Video

Fabien Cousteau: Our Water Planet, Our Health; Part 1 Video by Soroptimist International of Europe - MySpace Video

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