World Help Foundation Promotes

UN World Day For Water

The World Help Foundation, headquartered in Newtown, is promoting World Day for Water, a day established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1992 to remind everyone of the tremendous difference that can be made in societies around the world by access to safe clean drinking water.

An estimated 1.2 billion people around the world lack safe water. Of 37 major diseases in developing countries, 21 are water and sanitation related On March 22, the UN World Day for Water will be observed under the theme, “Water for the Future.”

 Water initiatives of the UN are networked for greater impact. The CEB Subcommittee on water Resources is the focal point for UN systemwide coordination in the area of water resources. Water, energy, health, agriculture, and biodiversity are the five key thematic areas of crucial global importance for sustaining life. Links to network websites within and outside of the UN system are at www.un.org/depts./dhl/water.

“World Help Foundation asks the citizens of Newtown to take this occasion to raise a glass of safe, clear, sweet water up in celebration of efforts to provide this precious gift to those in great need,” said Mary K. Taurus, WHF chief executive officer.

 “Please take this opportunity to contribute to this effort through World Help,” she said. “World Help brings safe water and sanitation solutions to rural villages worldwide. World Help works together with Rotary clubs globally, and international and local nonprofits and churches to provide improvements that save lives, and improve health and the quality of living.”

Ms Taurus encourages everyone to visit the foundation’s website www.worldhelpfound.org for more information.

“We need your help to resolve problems: in Ghana, including removing arsenic from the water; in Kenya, where young men and older boys stand ten deep, on each other’s shoulders to bucket up dirty water; and Haiti where health workers of a local nonprofit, Haitian Health Foundation, recently reviewed in The New York Times, succeed where other efforts have not,” she said. “Other projects are also being developed. These people desperately need our support and with it can do wonders!”

World Help Foundation is a tax-exempt public charity located at 255 South Main Street, PO Box 500, Newtown, CT 06470. For more information about volunteering in water and sanitation technology review, and other ways to help (Community Service Hours for students), call 270-7853 or email Mary K. Tauras (Kathy) at mktauras@worldhelpfound.org.