World Water Day highlights the need for clean and accessible drinking water for everyone, worldwide. While we enjoy plentiful and delicious water in Switzerland, many countires are not as fortunate. The children served by Aarohan know this all too well. When we asked founder Rani Patel if the children of Aarohan have issues with clean drinking water, this is what she had to say:
"Since most of the children reside in slum dwellings on the bank of an open drain where dirty sewage water accumulates, they don’t have access to clean drinking water. To top it all, the houses they live in don’t have a provision of taps. The slum-dwellers meet their water requirements through a public supply system through taps which have been put up at sundry places outside their lodgings. The height of these taps is so low that the dirty sewage water gets mixed up with the supplied clean one which poses a serious health hazard. As a result, both children and parents are afflicted with chronic ailments which most of the time go untreated and end their lives."
In order to promote awareness,
CDL's science teacher Briony Taylor and the Primary Charity Committee
are organising some fun and relevant student actitivites
on World Water Day, 22 March, 2011.
Moreover, in celebration of both World Water Day and the International Year of Chemistry,
Briony and the Primary Charity Committee will run a science work-shop for students at CDL on Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 from 3.30 pm till 4.30 pm.
Donations of 5 CHF (minimum) per student to benefit Aarohan
If you want to sign up, send your child’s name & teacher to cdl.water.experiments@gmail.com
Donations of 5 CHF (minimum) per student to benefit Aarohan
If you want to sign up, send your child’s name & teacher to cdl.water.experiments@gmail.com
To learn more about World Water Day, follow this link: http://www.worldwaterday.org
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