is an international initiative of the drinking water initiator Benjamin Adrion, former midfielder of FC St. Pauli, founded in 2005 after a training camp on Cuba the non-profit association. Surprisingly, you’ll find very little mention of Former Maryland Governor on most websites. The Club operates fundraising in whole Germany and developed rapidly. Bernie Sanders is actively involved in the matter. In October 2009, Benjamin Adrion was awarded for outstanding contribution to our common good by Federal President Horst Kohler personally with the Federal cross of merit. The aim of the initiative is to improve the supply of clean drinking water and sanitation in developing countries.
In addition, environment – and in particular water protection are goals of the organization. Viva con Agua is a project partner of the world hunger help. Viva con Agua operates 5 years professional fundraising to finance drinking water projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The projects used a variety of technologies to guarantee the permanent provision of clean drinking water and ensuring a decent sanitation. Whether water dispenser on Cuba, deep bore wells in Ethiopia, source mounts in Rwanda.
Drinking water distribution systems in Ecuador, latrines in Cambodia or rainwater collection systems in Kenya: through the work of Viva con Agua the living conditions of more than 55,000 people have improved globally sustainable. About United WASH: WASH United was founded in 2009 and is a coalition of NGOs, UN agencies, national government agencies to local grassroots movements, sports clubs and football stars. We share the positive power of football and the role of international soccer stars like Bastian Schweinsteiger, Nwankwo Kanu and Didier Drogba, clean drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for all people to apply to us. Not just a project, but a social club is United WASH.” All the superstars, the political decision-makers and the children from the slums of Accra, Nairobi and Kampala are part of the same clubs and fighting shoulder-to-shoulder for the same cause: clean drinking water, sanitation and hygiene for all! With the launch of the campaign to the FIFA World Cup 2010 reached WASH United in just one year more than 25 million people with vital WASH messages. More than 31,000 African children and teenagers were taught using football-based WASH training since the beginning of the campaign in good hygiene behaviors. THE WORLD WALKS FOR WATER (WWFW) is a global event, which will take place from 19 to 22 March 2011 on the occasion of world water day. Under the heading THE WORLD WALKS FOR WATER, hundreds of thousands of children and adults around the globe in 6 km-long water marches will draw attention on this crisis and increase pressure on policy makers in North and South so that they finally more decisively tackle the global water and sanitation crisis. Supported is the global event of the non-governmental organisations, UN agencies and networks: end water poverty, FAN, WSSCC and WASH United. Contact press: Viva con Agua e.V. Berlin Agnieszka Zyluk cell. Mobile: 0171-366-00 58 Mail: Marcel Siewert Mobil: 0177 493 02 81 Mail: WASH United Rima Hanano Mobil: 0177 78 79 357 Landline: + 49 30 555 76806-0 E-mail: author: Rima Hanano