FPCD Launches Green Community Hub Project in South Africa
THE FPCD LAUNCHES GREEN COMMUNITY HUB PROJECT IN SOUTH AFRICA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HANDS ON THE WORLD GLOBAL
(Young girls with shaven heads are the ones who must leave school walking miles to fetch water from mud holes.)
Dear Supporters of The Foundation for Post Conflict Development,
I would like to thank Executive Director Claudia Abate and Director of Special Projects David Gethings for reviewing my work and making the decision to become a partner in our next community development project.
Your donation will allow us to start our third school village project to create a Green Community Hub that will allow the Umgodi Primary School of 600 students and the surrounding village of over 1,500 people to have access to running water. Our mission and goals match the Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations which will hopefully be met by 2015.
(A women at Green Community Hub School in Ixopo South Africa uses newly installed sinks.)
I attended the 2000 Millennium Conference for the Environment and Youth, where issues involving food and water security were discussed among world leaders and teens who were there to develop leadership skills and also learn how to take action to make a positive difference. I was then inspired to start my own non-profit organization and use my status as an author to raise awareness and organize fundraising while managing projects that will hopefully lead people to sustainability and not dependability. Also, helping the UN with its 2015 goal of providing tools and organizational schemes that will help in creating programs that allow access to food and water for every human being is among my own organization’s goals.
Clean running water is a human right, which is stated as the UN’s third target mission. Article 24 of the United Nations Charter addresses the right for every child to have food and clean running water, but the need is overwhelming and we must work together as a global team to attack these issues.
(Rachael Paulson distributes Lifestraws to students at adopted schools in South Africa. Lessons of water borne diseases and prevention are introduced. Lifestraw is an invention that kills disease and filters the water.)
Our organization plans to address 700 school villages in this one province of South Africa. The schools and clinic villages are hours apart from each other. The concept of forming set models in districts that are in a state of emergency has shown great promise as the teachers and principals will have a center point to come to for information to improve on their lives.
Nearly 1 billion people in this world are without clean water, and having no form of sanitation at all. In areas of our world where HIV is leaving one out of every 5 children an orphan, we must take action to assist these forgotten children.
Our Green Community Hubs consists of drilling a borehole, installing a pump and then extending pipes out into the community. Sinks are installed, and food gardens are then added for seedling programs. These stages will provide water and food security for the orphans of these areas. Also, the community will take home seedlings to start its own gardens. Water will now be obtained from a close and safe location.
Your donation will also help the women of this area who spend 6 hours per day fetching water. Young girls are put into danger as they walk miles into dark and unseen ditches in the search for water. The end result of this search is usually a mud-filled hole that is shared with animals, and water is fetched and carried back to school and home. I hope to break the cycle of this gender issue in my Hub areas by educating children in our schools while our infrastructure projects are going on outdoors. We have also asked the boys to assist in the water fetching while I am there.
My relationships at my Green Community Hubs allow me to share information with the Zulu people, handing out materials and supplies, but best of all information that will allow them to become a part of our century. I am happy to share with them the rights that they deserve, and word of your mission, as I move forward to bring the people this information in August.
(The students at Green Community Hub Schools help to build greenhouse shade covers for food gardens.)
I say again that within the Declaration of Human Rights it is stated that all human beings have the right to food and water security, and it is our mission to bring that right to the people. We are happy and grateful to have your support and hope to assist you with spreading information about your organization and its mission.
With sincere thanks,
Rachael Paulson
Executive Director
Hands On The World Global
Photos courtesy of Rachael Paulson. More information can be found at www.howglobal.org
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(Young girls with shaven heads are the ones who must leave school walking miles to fetch water from mud holes.)
Dear Supporters of The Foundation for Post Conflict Development,
I would like to thank Executive Director Claudia Abate and Director of Special Projects David Gethings for reviewing my work and making the decision to become a partner in our next community development project.
Your donation will allow us to start our third school village project to create a Green Community Hub that will allow the Umgodi Primary School of 600 students and the surrounding village of over 1,500 people to have access to running water. Our mission and goals match the Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations which will hopefully be met by 2015.
(A women at Green Community Hub School in Ixopo South Africa uses newly installed sinks.)
I attended the 2000 Millennium Conference for the Environment and Youth, where issues involving food and water security were discussed among world leaders and teens who were there to develop leadership skills and also learn how to take action to make a positive difference. I was then inspired to start my own non-profit organization and use my status as an author to raise awareness and organize fundraising while managing projects that will hopefully lead people to sustainability and not dependability. Also, helping the UN with its 2015 goal of providing tools and organizational schemes that will help in creating programs that allow access to food and water for every human being is among my own organization’s goals.
Clean running water is a human right, which is stated as the UN’s third target mission. Article 24 of the United Nations Charter addresses the right for every child to have food and clean running water, but the need is overwhelming and we must work together as a global team to attack these issues.
(Rachael Paulson distributes Lifestraws to students at adopted schools in South Africa. Lessons of water borne diseases and prevention are introduced. Lifestraw is an invention that kills disease and filters the water.)
Our organization plans to address 700 school villages in this one province of South Africa. The schools and clinic villages are hours apart from each other. The concept of forming set models in districts that are in a state of emergency has shown great promise as the teachers and principals will have a center point to come to for information to improve on their lives.
Nearly 1 billion people in this world are without clean water, and having no form of sanitation at all. In areas of our world where HIV is leaving one out of every 5 children an orphan, we must take action to assist these forgotten children.
Our Green Community Hubs consists of drilling a borehole, installing a pump and then extending pipes out into the community. Sinks are installed, and food gardens are then added for seedling programs. These stages will provide water and food security for the orphans of these areas. Also, the community will take home seedlings to start its own gardens. Water will now be obtained from a close and safe location.
Your donation will also help the women of this area who spend 6 hours per day fetching water. Young girls are put into danger as they walk miles into dark and unseen ditches in the search for water. The end result of this search is usually a mud-filled hole that is shared with animals, and water is fetched and carried back to school and home. I hope to break the cycle of this gender issue in my Hub areas by educating children in our schools while our infrastructure projects are going on outdoors. We have also asked the boys to assist in the water fetching while I am there.
My relationships at my Green Community Hubs allow me to share information with the Zulu people, handing out materials and supplies, but best of all information that will allow them to become a part of our century. I am happy to share with them the rights that they deserve, and word of your mission, as I move forward to bring the people this information in August.
(The students at Green Community Hub Schools help to build greenhouse shade covers for food gardens.)
I say again that within the Declaration of Human Rights it is stated that all human beings have the right to food and water security, and it is our mission to bring that right to the people. We are happy and grateful to have your support and hope to assist you with spreading information about your organization and its mission.
With sincere thanks,
Rachael Paulson
Executive Director
Hands On The World Global
Photos courtesy of Rachael Paulson. More information can be found at www.howglobal.org
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