| Did You Know... |
50% of schools in the developing world currently do not have access to clean water, while 75% do not have access to adequate sanitation
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| We have made significant progress in our goals in the past 12 months. Please consider helping us continue our efforts.
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Inter-continental communication:
One of our H2O For Life Sponsoring Schools in the USA started an exchange of letters with their partner school in Delhi, India. We invite you to read these heartwarming intercontinental exchanges from young students in both schools by Clicking below. Letters from the Kids. |
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Greetings from Water Centric (WC)! Despite the continuing financial and economic downturn, I am happy to report that WC has been making steady progress on our 10-school project, currently serving about 10,000 children in Delhi, India. We are pleased with our US efforts to raise awareness about the dismal state of affairs regarding toilets, potable water and hygiene education in many developing world schools, and at slowly building a nimble but viable organization to address these issues.
Since my last note, WC has seen some heartening results. For example, we just finished building a septic tank in one of our schools, that will allow 1000 young girls to use school toilets for the first time ever, when they get back from vacation this month. We are also learning to use social networking sites like Facebook and a WC blog to build a community of informed and engaged supporters to help our cause.
We want you to know that every dollar donated or hour spent helping WC is having a real impact on our projects. Currently all Water Centric personnel are volunteering their time. I want to encourage each of you to get more involved. Together, we really can make a difference.
Best wishes,
Lotika S. Paintal
Founder and Executive Director
Lotika@watercentric.org
| Our Progress in the past three months. The strong progress we have made in a year has convinced us that our plan is working and that our projects will only get easier to implement as we gain more experience and funds. For now, we are taking on only the most urgent infrastructure projects. We are in the process of either fixing or installing new water and sanitation facilities as determined by careful audits of our schools. Our recent work includes: In India:
Our sincerest thanks to the Asian Club at Chelsea High School, MA, for dedicating all proceeds from their year-end fundraiser to Water Centric. They raised $2,500 |
Water Centric (WC) is a social entrepreneurship organization that is focused on systematically bringing water/sanitation and hygiene education to needy schools in India and around the world by leveraging the power of its social and professional networks to find effective local partners, appropriate technical assistance, diverse funding sources and a cadre of high quality volunteers of concerned global citizens to work together on addressing this global challenge. Our picture at right features Lotika (at right) meeting with some of the hygiene club students in Delhi. 