Anna Tibaijuka / Sanitation in the Urban Millennium / Part 4
Anna Tibaijuka on sanitation issues. Speech held at the Soroptimist International of Europe Water Congress, held in Amsterdam, 2009.
Water is Life, Sanitation is Dignity.
Anna Tibaijuka is the Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT. (www.unhabitat.org)
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Friday, 29 January 2010
Clean Water for a Healthy World
Water and sanitation
Clean Water for a Healthy World
Water is life. It is as simple as that!
Did you know that 1 in 6 of us around the world does not have access to safe, clean water? That for many, the only water available is over five miles away or brown or too expensive? Can you imagine going a day without water? Or seeing a child die from diarrhea because he or she only had dirty water to drink?
Project: Rainwater harvesting, Bambusi, Eastern Surinam
The project:Many villages in the interior of East Surinam are already enjoying the luxury of clean and safe drinking water. However, several small villages still remain to be provided with these facilities since, in general, sponsors tend to focus on larger villages.
Formerly, water for all purposes was gathered from the mighty rivers.
Pollution nowadays has reached a level that has become a threat to the health and safety of the people concerned.
Using rainwater harvesting in large water-containers has proven to be a rather simple solution for these problems: containers can be purchased locally and transported to the villages while installation, after properly instructions, can and will be done by the locals themselves.
Providing the small villages with clean and safe water gives the people both health and socialwise advantages to improve their standard of living.
This project is meant for 5 families living in Bambusi in the Beneden-Marowijne area.
Main target of the project:
To provide safe and clean water for people living in villages in the interior of eastern Suriname
People will be trained in proper use and maintenance, a training program established by Pater Ahlbrinck Stichting (PAS)
People will work together; they will be able to live more healthy and will cooperate with the civil society organization.
Involvement of the target group:
The target group will appoint a project coordinator. The person will organize the participation of the target group such as taking care of the installation of the water tanks; transportation of these water tanks, using their boats for transportation etc
In Cooperation with:
- PAS (Pater Albrinck Stichting) an organization existing for 40 years, very active in the interior of Suriname and therefore familiar with the needs of the locals.
- SI Club of Paramaribo, Surinam
(Contact: Agnes Guda e- mail: agsomsar@planet.nl)
Total Cost:
5 water tanks for Bambusi 5 x SRD1350,- = 6750 SRD ,- (€1688,-)
Sponsor € 88,-
SI Project: Let our children drink safe water
SI Karşıyaka, Turkey
Project: Mevlana Primary School
Improve access to clean water, sanitation and essential food resources
In our visits to Mevlana primary School, we observed that the outside garden fountains were not sanitized enough and we established a filtration system to clean water.
We believe that safe water is essential in our lives and we want to protect our children from the disadvantages of contaminated water.
Our member, who was a mechanical engineer, did the research and her own company placed the filtration system. It worked with Ultraviolet energy and cleaned the micro-organism. We proved it by the analysis of water.We also had an opening in the school garden with the students, members and the school board.
Results The school garden fountains were proved to be safe with analysis and the children could drink clean water while they were playing .
Women Helped 750
Girls Helped 20
Project Start 12 / 2008 Completion n/a
Project Costs $501-1000
Number of Hours 401-500
Project: Mevlana Primary School
Improve access to clean water, sanitation and essential food resources
In our visits to Mevlana primary School, we observed that the outside garden fountains were not sanitized enough and we established a filtration system to clean water.
We believe that safe water is essential in our lives and we want to protect our children from the disadvantages of contaminated water.
Our member, who was a mechanical engineer, did the research and her own company placed the filtration system. It worked with Ultraviolet energy and cleaned the micro-organism. We proved it by the analysis of water.We also had an opening in the school garden with the students, members and the school board.
Results The school garden fountains were proved to be safe with analysis and the children could drink clean water while they were playing .
Women Helped 750
Girls Helped 20
Project Start 12 / 2008 Completion n/a
Project Costs $501-1000
Number of Hours 401-500
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Join the advocacy campaigns
JOIN THE ADVOCACY CAMPAIGNS
8th March 2010 | JOIN WOMEN ON THE BRIDGE – is the crescendo of our first integrated global event. It unites women all over the world in showing that they can build the bridges of peace and development for the future. By joining this event women will be standing alongside women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Iraq, Sudan, and Nigeria in saying no to war and yes to peace, development and hope. |
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Sunday, 24 January 2010
A shared message from Social NGO's across Europe
from The European Women's Lobby and End Poverty
2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
2010 has been designated as the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. The Year comes during a time of severe financial, economic and social crisis. Part of the necessary response to this crisis is the renewal of a common vision for the type of society we want to create. A commitment to building a Europe where women and men of all ages can live free of poverty and social exclusion, should be the legacy
of the 2010 Year. This would contribute to a real recovery plan to address the current crisis.
Poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon
It is not simply the lack of financial resources and income, whether through employment or social benefits. It also encompasses the notion of vulnerability, precariousness, lack of opportunities, injustice and denial of rights, such as access to
education and health, housing, employment, services and infrastructure, as well as access to information, culture and political participation.
Against the backdrop of the worldwide financial and economic crisis, NGOs are concerned that the current EU strategy of ‘growth and jobs’ and market liberalisation, without attention to fairness, inclusion, participation and re‐distribution, has failed to deliver a social Europe, where everyone has access to fundamental rights.
2010, the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, represents an opportunity to make policy changes that will have a real impact on fighting inequalities and create a Europe free of poverty in the long term. We therefore call for a wide mobilisation at local, national, and European level.
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
SI/E extends support to Soroptimists in Haiti
January 13, 2010
Dear Soroptimist Sisters,
We are deeply saddened at the horrendous earthquake that has caused so many deaths in Haiti. We would like to extend our heart-felt sympathies to our sisters in Haiti and reassure them that we will support them throughout this disastrous ordeal.
We share the grief of all those who have lost loved ones and hope for the recovery of those who have been injured. We are profoundly affected by the devastating consequences this tragedy has and will have on Haiti’s inhabitants and we will provide any assistance needed.
Dr. Eliane Lagasse
SI/E President 2009-2011
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