1. 2013: Rotary Water Year
and time to organize worldwide
Rotary Walking for Water
Proposal to Rotary Clubs World-wide

2. 2013 is UN Year for Water
• Leverage media attention for water
– The extra media attention the UN theme brings is
an opportunity to showcase Rotary & Water.

3. PROPOSAL: make water
your club theme for 2012-2013
By adopting water, we encourage clubs to:
• Raise water awareness
– Knowledge of water problems & solutions
– Learn how Rotary clubs work for water causes
• Consider supporting a water project
– Work together with Wasrag and other clubs
• Consider holding a water fundraising event
• Help promote Rotary’s activities for water

4. Why Water
• 900 million people without clean water
• 2,3 billion people without adequate sanitation
“Ensuring safe drinking water is the most
effective way to reduce poverty”
Source: UN University 2008
“Investments in more and beter water is one of
the most efficient forms of aid.
Payback/value to per $1 (intl. aid) investment:
• Household water filters = $30 (thats a 30 times ROI)
• RopePump = $50 Source: WHO 2008

5. Water First?
Water has a huge impact on
all other humanitarian and Disease and Health
development areas of focus Education
Literacy
Infant mortality
WAter,
Sanitation & Women’s equality
Hygene Hunger
(better known as WASH)
Poverty
When clean water is lacking, all these Econ. development
become problems.
To impact these problems Water is Conflict resolution
one of the best places to start

6. Peace through Service
• Choosing water as your
club theme is one way to
support Future Vision,
Focus Areas and the new
RI’s theme “peace
through service”
“Many of today’s conflicts around
the world are being fuelled by water
shortages… Increasingly, fights are
erupting over such basic human
needs as water and arable land.
Ban Ki-moon, February, 2008

7. Rotary Future Vision
• 2013 begins the international roll-out of the
new strategy for RI and TRF
– Areas of Focus
– Global Grants
• Goals
– Focus efforts to increase global impact
– Simplify global & district grant processes
– Increase district & club ownership of goals
– Enhance Rotary’s public image

8. 6 Key Areas of Focus
Peace and conflict prevention/resolution
Disease prevention and treatment
Water and sanitation
Maternal and child health
Basic education and literacy
Economic and community
development

9. “Peace through Service
Starts with Water”
Disease and Health
Service Education
Literacy
Water Infant mortality
Peace
Women’s equality
Hunger & Poverty
Econ. development
Conflict resolution

10. Start with Water at your club
Vision Ron Denham: Every
club a water project
Idea: every club at least
one Wasrag member as
from 2012-2013

11. Rotary water projects
bringing peace around the world:
Country Projects
India 212
Indonesia 35
Philippines 50
Thailand 38
Other 90
Country Projects
Country Projects Burkina Faso 5
Bolivia 12 Cameroun 9
Dom. Rep. 17 Ghana 25
Ecuador 32 Kenya 55
Guatemala 25
Malawi 10
Haiti 27
Nigeria 21
Honduras 51
South Africa 27
Mexico 55
Tanzania 15
Nicaragua 11
Uganda 58
Peru 18
Zambia 29
Other 57
Other 100

12. On the Wasrag site you can find
hundreds of Rotary water projects to
support and get involved in
Idea for 2012-2013: Choose to
support a Water project

13. Types of Rotary Water Projects
• Drilling of boreholes, installing pumps
• Rainwater harvesting, water storage
• Household filters and purification
• Building latrines and toilet blocks
• Irrigation and food security
• Pipelines/distribution systems
• Hygiene education

14. Fundraising for Water Projects
• Rotary Walking for Water
– School children walking 6 miles with 6 liters water
– Business walk/marathon
• Golf tournament (or another sport)
• Swimming or biking marathon
• Benefit concert, dance, dinner, event
• Selling water bottles or similar product
• Boat races, celebrity auctions,

15. Consider organizing Rotary
Walking for Water in 2013
Early registration starts in April 2012
www.walkingforwater.eu

16. What is Walking for Water?
• Children aged 10-14 through primary schools
walk 6 km with 6 liters of water
– Experiencing and empathizing
Dutch and UK
with children in developing
Rotary Clubs are
countries that have to do this
organizing this
every day
successful
charity walk for
ten years.
In 2013 we hope
this will grow
internationally

17. When: UN World Water Day
• During the week of March 22
– Around the world this is the
week that attention is given
to water and sanitation.
– Participating Rotary clubs
leverage the extra media
attention given to WWD
– Rotary clubs are virtually
connected to each other in common
cause, message and timing

18. Reasons for Rotary clubs?
• Support Future Vision, Water and Wasrag
– Raise money and awareness for water projects,
– In line with Future vision; endorsed by WASRAG
• Easy to organize
– Easiest way for a club to participate in Water.
– Piggyback on experiences of other clubs
• Alignment between Avenues of Service
– Fits with New Generations (youth), Community
service and International service

19. Advantages
• Fundraising • Membership
– Raise up to $20,000 recruitment
– Matching grants – Target: "parents of school
provided by Aqua for All children" learn about
for approved projects Rotary.
• Publicity – Indirectly leads to new
members
– Generates media
attention, promotes club • Manageable
• Youth involvement – 1 RC can organize or
several cooperating clubs.
– Rotarian Guest lectures
– Fits commission structure
– Brings Rotary close to
communities. – Fits within Rotary year

20. Steps WvW 2013 (1)
• Generate club support for Water
– Inspire club to adopt water theme in 2012-2013.
– Share experience with WvW from other clubs
• Tip: tie into other club goals
– WvW helps achieve other club goals such as
fellowship, PR, member recruitment, youth,
• Registration (as from April 2012)
– Clubs wishing to organize WvW need to register
– Agree to (later) adopt approved (Rotary) projects,
or submit own project for approval

21. Steps WvW (2)
• Approval granted to Rotary club
– Akvo gives approval to Rotary clubs to approach
schools (as from May 2012)
• School Recruitment (June)
– Send invitation to Schools before summer break
– Based on standard templates and examples from
experienced Rotary clubs
• For a commission (July)
– Establish a WvW commission of between 4 and
6 Rotarians to manage the organization.

22. Steps WvW (3)
• Commission roles and actions delegated
– Adopt/adapt Rotary guide and support material
– Resume school recruitment (september)
– Allocate tasks, plan track progress
• Project selection (Oct/Nov 2012)
– Multiple project options available
• Choose from approved (Rotary) projects
• Team up with other clubs for larger water projects
• Submit your own Rotary project for approval

23. Steps WvW (4)
• Rotarians give Guest lectures (Feb 2013)
– A lesson on water for all participating schools and
children. For most Rotarians the best part of WvW
• Contents include:
– the importance of water,
situation in your country,
situation in poor countries,
cause and effects of water
diseases, tangible solutions,
project information and
practical information about
finding sponsors and
participating in WVW.

24. Convinced, or
want to know more?
Visit: www.walkingforwater.eu
Contact Walking for Water, WASRAG
or Rotary Netherlands to learn more
Walking for Water: Chris Amsinger, chris@akvo.org
WASRAG: Nancy Gilbert, nancy.gilbert@wasrag.org
Rotary Netherlands: Scott King, saking@xs4all.nl
And don’t forget to sign up as from April 2012