Water Best Practice Award 2009
Two Water Awards
• The Water Best Practice Award 2009 (€ 10.000,-)
• The Public’s Project Award (€ 5.000,-)
The Awards will be honored at the 19th European Congress of SI/E in Amsterdam.
Water Best Practice Award:
* a shortlist of nominated projects has been selected by the Selection Committee immediately after April 1.
* from 1 June onwards, the selected projects will be presented on this SI/E website. www.soroptimisteurope.org
Public’s Project Award:
* the Public Project Award will be nominated by the public through on-line voting for one of the projects shortlisted by the Selection Committee and presented on the website
* to cast your vote, fill in the voting form provided on the website.
* the votes will be counted by the Selection Committee.
PLEASE USE YOUR VOTE! the VOTING FORM CAN BE FOUND HERE:
http://www.soroptimistsgoforwater.nl/SoroptimistsgoforWater/WaterProjects/PublicsWaterAwardVotingForm/tabid/188/Default.aspx
The on line voting will continue until July 8th, 2009.
The winners of both awards will be announced during the SI/E Congress in Amsterdam, on Sunday July 12, 2009.
Thank you!
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Soroptimist School Projects
Soroptimists International join forces to tackle education issues.
Together, primary schools for girls are built, giving the children a chance to read and write, equipping them for further education - so as to become independent and capable of making their own living in the future
-uniforms and books are provided for, and parents are motivated to take the children to school
www.soroptimisteurope.org
webclip by Buzzmedia Network
Together, primary schools for girls are built, giving the children a chance to read and write, equipping them for further education - so as to become independent and capable of making their own living in the future
-uniforms and books are provided for, and parents are motivated to take the children to school
www.soroptimisteurope.org
webclip by Buzzmedia Network
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Walk the World!
Last Sunday, 7th June 2009, the whole world was once again on the move. Within 24 hours and in all 24 time zones, thousands of people put on their walking shoes and joined in a five kilometer walk to campaign against poverty and hunger.
Did you know that:
- More than 800 million people in the world do not get enough to eat, most of them are women and children.
- Almost 200 million children under five years of age are underweight due to a lack of food
- Malnutrition in children causes mental retardation and physical stunting
- One child dies every seven seconds from hunger and related causes
- For only US$ 50 per year (or 25 cents a day) you can fill a plate of nutritious porridge for a needy child in school.
End Hunger - Walk the World is a global event initiated in 2003 by TNT, a global mail and logistics company, in partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). TNT and WFP works together with FAO and many NGOs to help raise awareness about poverty and hunger in the world and raise funds for WFP supported school feeding programmes in the poorest countries. School feeding programmes are a powerful way of reducing child hunger and increasing the enrollment of more children, and particularly girls, in primary schools, which is part of our SI Programme Focus 2007-2011 and the corresponding Millennium Development Goals.
Did your club participate?
To find out how to organize a ‘’Walk’’ visit www.WFP.org ( > How to Help > For Individuals and you will find “Walk the World” and “How to find out More”).
There may also be a WFP Office in your own country or region which you can contact directly. To organize a ‘’Walk’’ is easy and a lot of fun – and, remember, your Club will be encouraging many more children, and specially girls, from poor countries, to attend school and help them fight hunger pains and concentrate on their studies.
We'd love to hear your stories of participation, so if you have any pictures and experiences to share and inspire the world with, please send them to:
soroptimist.europe@googlemail.com
source, via: http://www.soroptimisteurope.org
Friday, 8 May 2009
Monday, 4 May 2009
SOROPTIMISTS INTERNATIONAL OF EUROPE Facts:
Facts:
- A human being needs two buckets of water per day to be able to drink, wash their hands and to prepare a simple meal.
- Worldwide 1.1 billion people have no access to safe drinking water and 2.6 billion people have no basic sanitation.
- In 2005 around 4,500 children died every day due to malnutrition and diseases such as diarrhea and typhoid fever. These children don’t even reach the age of five.
- The consequences of polluted drinking water and the lack of basic sanitation and hygiene are far reaching. Millions of people hover between life and death because of constant diseases, and have no opportunity whatsoever to educate themselves.
- A person can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water.
So far, SI/E has donated € 700,000 to water related projects
GO TO THE FOLLOWING SITE FOR DETAILS OF OUR PROJECTS:
http://www.soroptimistsgoforwater.nl/SoroptimistsgoforWater/WaterProjects/tabid/67/Default.aspx
1.6. 
SI club Rhenen/Veenendaal, Netherlands.
Project: Renovating Kindergarten "Guguta", Tataresti, Moldavia
more..
1.5. 
SI club Pannonia Oberpullendorf Austria.
Project: Khungwani Community Water project Kenya
more..
1.4. 
Fonds Soroptimist Luxembourg.
Project: Drinking-water and collecting of rain-water in the Training
Centre San Marco, Rwanda
more...
1.3. 
SI club of Cochem/Mosel, Germany.
Project: Fountain for Difémou in Mali, Africa. (Finished March 2007)
more...
1.2. 
SI club of Busto Arsizio - Ticino Olona, Italy.
Project: "Water - a precious, finite resource". (Finished February 2007)
more...
1.1. 
SI club of Accra Unitity, Ghana.
Project: Clean water and toilets for Dodowa (Finished 2005)
more...
SOROPTIMISTS GO FOR WATER/JULY CONGRESS
MAIN THEME
‘Soroptimists go for water’ http://soroptimistsgoforwater.nl
As 2005 – 2015 is the UN Decade of Fresh Water and Basic Sanitation, Soroptimist International of Europe is actively contributing to the UN Millennium Development Goal.
SI/E continues to support people living without sustainable access to safe and affordable drinking water and basic sanitation.
Building on our social involvement and commitment as a NGO, Soroptimist International of Europe plans to bring this important water issue and our SI objectives into the limelight at the Congress. We need swift and decisive action rather than creating more policies. Sanitation is fundamental to dignity and water is the essence of life. As women are always central when it comes to providing the necessities of life, it stands to reason that we actively contribute to this incentive.
So far, we donated €700,000 to water related projects and we are not done yet!
SI/E is an INTERNATIONAL organization; this is an opportunity for Soroptimists from 57 countries to attend – be one of them!
There will be WATER PROJECT presentations, and a huge board on display representing the projects which will be seen by all. You'll meet the clubs that took on these projects and also the members from the countries where these projects were implemented.
During the Congress you will find goodwill and understanding and you'll make friends for life.
Join hands to improve the lives of women and girls in their local communities throughout the world! - start in Amsterdam this summer!
Join us for a rewarding and fulfilling weekend in Amsterdam – 10 to 12 July 2009!
Mariet Verhoef-Cohen
‘Soroptimists go for water’ http://soroptimistsgoforwater.nl
As 2005 – 2015 is the UN Decade of Fresh Water and Basic Sanitation, Soroptimist International of Europe is actively contributing to the UN Millennium Development Goal.
SI/E continues to support people living without sustainable access to safe and affordable drinking water and basic sanitation.
Building on our social involvement and commitment as a NGO, Soroptimist International of Europe plans to bring this important water issue and our SI objectives into the limelight at the Congress. We need swift and decisive action rather than creating more policies. Sanitation is fundamental to dignity and water is the essence of life. As women are always central when it comes to providing the necessities of life, it stands to reason that we actively contribute to this incentive.
So far, we donated €700,000 to water related projects and we are not done yet!
SI/E is an INTERNATIONAL organization; this is an opportunity for Soroptimists from 57 countries to attend – be one of them!
There will be WATER PROJECT presentations, and a huge board on display representing the projects which will be seen by all. You'll meet the clubs that took on these projects and also the members from the countries where these projects were implemented.
During the Congress you will find goodwill and understanding and you'll make friends for life.
Join hands to improve the lives of women and girls in their local communities throughout the world! - start in Amsterdam this summer!
Join us for a rewarding and fulfilling weekend in Amsterdam – 10 to 12 July 2009!
Mariet Verhoef-Cohen
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