World Vision Announces $200 Million Clinton Global Initiative Commitment Focusing On Girls, Women, and Water
- 09.24.11
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WORLD VISION ANNOUNCES $200 MILLION
New York, NY, September 22, 2011—Global relief and development leader World Vision announced today a six-year, $200 million effort in its 2011 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), focused on expanding the life-changing impact of safe water on women, girls, and their communities. Building on its two decades of experience in water, sanitation and hygiene, as well as its recently completed five-year West Africa Water Initiative (WAWI) in
“We have seen just how critical access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene is for women and girls—not only to their daily health and personal safety, but also to enable them to invest in their education and future,” said Richard Stearns, President of World Vision United States and attendee at this week’s CGI Annual Meeting in
With its expertise in issues that affect women and girls in developing communities, World Vision expects its expanded water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions to not only improve child and maternal health and nutrition status, but also enhance family livelihoods, household savings, school attendance, and the ability to learn, especially among girls.
“World Vision understands that for sustainable change, we must combine the essential ‘software’ ingredients of community engagement and behavior change with the ‘hardware’ of borehole wells, catchment systems and other interventions,” said Rudo Kwaramba, World Vision’s national director in
World Vision’s new commitment is especially timely given the historic drought in the Horn of Africa, which is affecting more than 13 million people. As part of its CGI commitment, the aid agency is responding urgently to the emergency water needs in
