New International Water campaign 2012-2013 ICROSS is fighting for water along with groups around the World. We need you to join us ! More people have a mobile phone than a toilet. In Areas of Extreme poverty including many areas we serve there is only ONE toilet per 300 people. • In 60 developing countries, only 46% of primary schools have adequate water sources and 37% have adequate sanitation facilities. In our new project areas none of the 5 schools have water or adequate facilities • Women and children walk on average 6km every day to fetch water, and the average weight of water they carry is 20kg “ I stopped going to School when I was 14 because there was nowhere to wash, no place I could manage my period, no girls toilet and nowhere to wash my hand , I had no choice “ Susan ( 22 Mother of 3 children,Kenya ) ICROSS has been working with communities since 1980 to improve access to water, improve sanitation and reduce infectious disease through hygiene. With Over a Billion without clean water and hundreds of millions without toilets the Global solution requires poitical action to provide these rights and create change. Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is part of UNICEFS Global campaign to end this injustice. World leaders have made promises which they have not kept. These promises must be kept to bring an end to the global sanitation and water crisis. By taking part in the Keep Your Promises campaign, you can unite with hundreds of thousands of people across the world who are taking action to ensure that basic sanitation and clean water are available for EVERYONE! ICROSS is part of an International partnership that is launching a year long campaign. http://www.endwaterpoverty.org/members/I we need you to get involved NGOs and Organisations around the World are involved and we need you to help us. “It is hard for us to imagine life without ever having a toilet, Its one of those things we have never thought about. Now imagine your young children, those you love and old old and sick managing without a toilet, water to wash, the absence of every and any amenity, no toilet paper, sanitary towel, anything ! This is reality for a third of humanity and it has to stop. Theres no excuse, water is a right !” Michael Meegan PLEASE HELP US • Get involved sharing awareness about the Global suffering caused by diarrhoeal infections the lack of sanitation share our updates with your friends on facebook and twitter. • Help us provide toilets and donate today, ask your friends to help as well. • Provide sanitary towels to girls helping them stay in school • Download the toolkit to see how you can start campaigning with us and challenge your own politicians http://www.endwaterpoverty.org/news/keep-your-promises-sanitation-and-water This week we will announce details of World toilet day 2012 and how you can get involved. Everyone of us can do something ! “I would like to go to School but its not really going to happen “ Maria (13 Kenya) For more information about the campaign http://www.endwaterpoverty.org/page/solution http://www.endwaterpoverty.org/crisis/why-campaign-water-and-sanitation http://www.unicef.org/wash/index_bigpicture.html