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World Water Week

 

As it happens every year in August or September, from the 1st to the 6th September the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) scheduled the World Water Week.

It is a week-long conference that addresses topics related to water, sustainability and development. Today is indeed the last day of work for this year but this moment could be the occasion to further analyze the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related problems and try to find global solutions to them.

Under the Goal 7 “Ensure Environmental Sustainability”, the Target 7.C states “Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation”. TheSanitation and Water for All programme is producing great outcomes, but the situation is still problematic with 2,5 billion people without improved sanitation, following the World Health Organization (WHO) data of 2012.

Following the data of UN Water the 67% of the world population will have access to sanitation by 2015. This is a great result considering that there has been a +6% in this data from 2008, but we have to think about the remaining 33% and find sustainable solutions for them. In its own small way, the Mmanze Centre is doing its part with a large scale project in the Masulita county area, Uganda. Everything started in 2008/2009 when the Mmanze Centre participated in the Wandelen voor Water Project for the construction of Rain Water Harvesting tanks and pit latrine blocks. Working also in collaboration with Aqua for All, AKVO and Rotary Club Apeldoorn, the Mmanze Centre developed a sanitation awareness campaign and managed the construction of 5 RWH tanks and 5 pit latrine blocks. In this way the Mmanze Centre covered the needs of the Mmanze Primary School, the Mmanze Secondary School and the Namutenga Primary School, the Busaawa Mmanze Health Centre and the Kambugu Health Centre II. The association continued working on this path creating 2 RWH tanks and 2 pit latrine blocks in 2010 for two primary schools in Kambugu and Bugujju.

Our next goal is to create 10 Rain Water Harvesting tanks and 10 pit latrine blocks to enlarge the access to water and sanitation facilities among schools in the target area. Once totally funded, the project will ensure better sanitation standards for 7659 children under 14 years old and 12391 young adult and adult over 15 years old.

We will update you through this blog when we’ll have good news. Meanwhile you can support us, inquiries can be send at mmanzecentre@gmail.com

Agnese Cigliano

Project Manager at the Mmanze Centre

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