WfWP signs End Water Poverty petition
Today is World Water Day. No reason for celebrations, though, with millions lacking access to safe drinking water and billions lacking basic sanitation. Lack of water and sanitation traps people in a vicious circle of disease, lost life chances and poverty. But this vicious circle can be broken!
As a Partnership of Women for Water, we use water and sanitation as an entry point for social and economic development. By doing so, we actively contribute to the achievement of internationally agreed development goals, including MDG's. The Women for Water approach is about supporting women’s organisations and enabling them to position women as Agents of Change. At present, WfWP consists of 25 women’s networks with subsidiaries in approximately 100 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the EECCA region and Western Europe. Quite a formidable number of Women for Water stroke Agents of Change, for sure.
The End Water Poverty campaign is about change too. The campagin seeks to activate people around the world in order for them to help solve the water and sanitation crisis by making change happen. On today's World Water Day, a number of World Walks for Water are being held. At the finish line of the Walk for Water in The Hague, the government of The Netherlands will be presented with a petition urging them to put the issue of water and sanitation for developing countries high on their priorities list. It goes without saying that Women for Water Partnership's chairlady Alice Bouman-Dentener signed the petition without hesitation.
Today is World Water Day. No reason for celebrations, though, with millions lacking access to safe drinking water and billions lacking basic sanitation. Lack of water and sanitation traps people in a vicious circle of disease, lost life chances and poverty. But this vicious circle can be broken!
As a Partnership of Women for Water, we use water and sanitation as an entry point for social and economic development. By doing so, we actively contribute to the achievement of internationally agreed development goals, including MDG's. The Women for Water approach is about supporting women’s organisations and enabling them to position women as Agents of Change. At present, WfWP consists of 25 women’s networks with subsidiaries in approximately 100 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the EECCA region and Western Europe. Quite a formidable number of Women for Water stroke Agents of Change, for sure.
The End Water Poverty campaign is about change too. The campagin seeks to activate people around the world in order for them to help solve the water and sanitation crisis by making change happen. On today's World Water Day, a number of World Walks for Water are being held. At the finish line of the Walk for Water in The Hague, the government of The Netherlands will be presented with a petition urging them to put the issue of water and sanitation for developing countries high on their priorities list. It goes without saying that Women for Water Partnership's chairlady Alice Bouman-Dentener signed the petition without hesitation.
