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Turn Social Chatter into Water!
WHEN: Tuesday, October 27, 2009
TIME: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
WHERE: Tantric India Bistro
123 Stuart Street
Boston, MA 02116
Get informed, inspired and engaged. You are invited to a discussion on the global water/sanitation crisis. Did you know, 1.1 billion people lack access to clean water 2.6 billion people lack access to toilets … and of course this is leading to a huge health crisis!
Yes, we can all do something to change the status quo. Come spend a social evening with Water Centric at Boston’s Tantric India Bistro. Water Centric’s founder Lotika Paintal and other team members will be there to share an insider perspective on the global water/sanitation crisis and what Water Centric is doing about it. Read more at: http://www.watercentric.org
Cost: $20 – includes a drink, hors d’oeuvres, and a great evening! Feel free to bring friends.
“I would get permission to lock all but one of our school toilets and then charge kids at school 10 cents every time they had to use it, so they would realize how important toilets are to kids who don’t have them,” said one creative middle schooler. “Then I’d donate the money to Water Centric to build a toilet for kids in slum schools in India.”
Kids from all over Metrowest Boston learned about “flying toilets” * and water stations during three presentations by Water Centric, as part of the Education and Leadership for a Nonviolent Age (ELNA)’s Annual Leadership Conference of middle schoolers on October 9, 2009. The kids then brainstormed creative ways to organize fundraising events from pumpkin festivals to tag sales so that kids in other parts of the world could have clean drinking water and toilets.
ELNA member middle and high schools are in Natick, Lincoln, Maynard, Shrewsbury, Hudson, Harvard, Westborough, and Lunenburg, Massachusetts in an initiative to encourage children to demonstrate leadership skills, social awareness, and civic responsibility. To learn more about ELNA, click on http://www.elnacollaborative.org/ELNA/Welcome.html
* A ‘flying toilet’ is a plastic bag that gets used as a toilet and is then thrown out the window into the street!
Water Centric is very pleased that five schools in the United States through the organizing efforts of H2O for Life have partially sponsored five of our Delhi schools.
This spring students from Brooklin, Maine’s second and third grades started writing letters to its partner school in India.
The kids were very excited to make a connection with the school and children they were supporting.
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In Delhi the school children were equally excited to get these notes and to learn that kids their age had helped provide the funds to improve their school. They responded with heartwarming letters of gratitude.
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My name is Saiba. I am studying in Class Vth. I am 10 years old. I like to do cleanness. Before this programme our school was very unclean but now the condition is changed. Now everyone have neat and clean. You have done a great help for our school, very-very thanks. |
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My name is Hazra. I am 8 years old. I am in class IVth. I am thankful to you. Before your support my school’s condition was not clean and now condition is going better. I will again write letter to you. Thanking you. |
We hope this intercontinental dialog will continue to build bridges between these kids and enable them to better understand the international challenges of water, sanitation, health and hygiene.
Most high school students don’t think twice when they quench their thirst on a hot afternoon with a cool drink of water. However, this spring when a group of Chelsea High School students attending an informational session realized that half the schools in the developing world do not have access to clean water, they decided to do something about it. The Asian Club of Chelsea High determined to raise $2500 during the school year for a non-profit, Water Centric. The goal of Water Centric is to bring clean water and sanitation to students and schools in Africa and Asia, as well as to teach these students about hygiene. The Asian Club is one of the most active clubs at Chelsea High School with around 30 members who are involved in a wide range of activities. In the past they have been involved in community service projects such as running the annual CHS canned food drive. This time through various fundraisers at school and the club’s annual event, Asian Night, the students successfully raised $2300. With an additional donation of $200 from the CHS Multicultural Club, the students were able to hand over a check for the promised amount to Lotika Paintal, Founder and Executive Director of Water Centric. Lotika thanked the Asian Club President, Michael Chung, and CHS advisor, Jennifer Gulko, for their commitment and for being able to raise such a large amount in such a short time. The money would be used to build functional toilets and water stations at one of 10 public schools in Delhi India serving over 10,000 children. She hoped the students would continue to track the impact of their donations by following the school projects on the Water Centric blog at www.watercentric.org
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