Helping others to help themselves
This is why Wavin, in collaboration with Unicef, contributed their time, expertise, manpower and products to the program, Providing Essentials for Children – to help children from impoverished countries in Asia and Africa gain access to safe water, better sanitation and hygiene education. We are thrilled to share one of our success stories – a pilot project in the Asian country of Bhutan, one of the world’s poorest and most underdeveloped nations. At our first site visit in 2012, we – along with Unicef and representatives of the Bhutanese Ministries of Education and Health – visited 5 of the schools that took part in the clean water and sanitation program.
Because of its erratic rainfall, with 8 months of drought each year, Bhutan has been in water crisis mode for some time. Schoolchildren have access to water for only 20 minutes a day. Our program brought 5000 students and their schools new water facilities (in 26 schools), new sanitation facilities (in 38 schools), rainwater harvesting systems (in 4 schools), and hygiene training (for 154 teachers). It’s a success story that we, at Wavin, our very proud of. And we are also deeply grateful to Unicef, the Bhutanese Ministries and the lovely villagers of Bhutan for the opportunity to work on such a noble cause. We will continue to contribute to helping developing countries with clean water and sanitation challenges.