World Youth Water Alliance
World Youth Water Alliance
World Youth Water Alliance (WYWA) is an initiative of the Green Youth Ambassadors 2006, youth towards ensuring environmental sustainability.
This is a youth and children focused program. This program has resulted from discussions initiated by Mr. Anugraha John (Programme Coordinator, Pipal Tree, India) with Mr. Ibrahim N. Al-Zu'bi ( Director of Environment Department, Emirates Diving Association), Ms.Varsha Ajmer (World Youth Foundation, Malaysia) and all the members of the Green Youth Ambassadors 2006 selected at the International Training on Environment and Disaster Risk Management held at Melaka, Malaysia in August 2006.
OUR AIM:
To help advance the achievements of the Millennium Development Goal 7 - Ensure environmental sustainability: reverse loss of environmental resources; reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water; achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2015 and Engage Youth to celebrate with us the International Decade for Action Water for Life 2005-2015.
OUR OBJECTIVES:
1. WYWA will engage youth at both local and global level, throughout the year and especially on 22nd March, the World Water Day (WWD) to organize various programs and events up to the year 2015.
2. WYWA will primarily undertake water awareness in schools and universities and among school and university teachers. The nature of these educational programs will be workshops, screening of films on issues related to water, photo exhibitions, direct exposure to problems the poor are facing, civil society and governance issues.
3. WYWA will create awareness about the growing urgency of issues related to water locally and globally.
4. WYWA will promote serious reflection and discussion on issues such as water depletion, wastage and pollution, degradation, water related conflicts, and recent moves to privatize water. WYWA will not just highlight the magnitude of the problem, but will also bring all stakeholders together to apply solutions that work.
WYWA is inspired and encouraged (directly or indirectly) by the following NGO Leaders, Activists and Environment/Water Experts:
Siddhartha, Jill Carr-Harris, Anupam Mishra, Dr Chan Ngai Weng, Leo Saldanha, Medha Patkar, Larbi Bouguerra, Ajit Muriken, Sudha, Edith Sizoo, Gustavo Marin, Rajendra Singh, Melissa Kwee, Medha Patkar,Yolanda Ziaka, Philippe Robichon, Gail Richardson, Chirstian Souchon, Max O. Lindegger, Pedro Kraemer, Mary McBride, Richard Green, Ibrahim N. Al-Zu'bi, Theodore E.A. Oben, S.Vishwanath, Prof. James Gao, K. Pushpanath, Jack Sim, Dr. Ahmed Iftekhar, Professor Asano, Oscar Olivera, Catherine Coleman and many others.
WYWA - International Coordination Team
Alex Kazaglis - Australia
Adeyinka Ademola - Nigeria
Anugraha John – India
Elissa Smith - Canada
Hong Huiru Cheryl - Singapore
Nichole Carnevale & Chris Lewer - USA
Sarah Martin - France
The team will define the guidelines and the strategy, raise funds and act collectively in coordination with Regional and Country Coordinators to achieve the objectives of WYWA.
“We shall not finally defeat AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, or any of the other infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking-water, sanitation and basic health care.”
Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General