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Providing Water for Schools
Since our CWP program began, we have provided water or water and sanitation facilities to nearly 400 schools, directly
benefiting more than 206,000 students in over 25 countries throughout Africa, Latin America, and Asia. In addition, many of
our water education and awareness activities coordinate with schools in approximately 15 countries as focal points to help students,
teachers, and community members learn about hygiene, water conservation, watershed management, and environmental protection.
This promotes healthier livelihoods while delivering benefits well beyond the classroom.
Notably, RAIN includes a special focus on schools to help increase attendance, enhance hygiene behaviors, and improve health among
both children and adults. RAIN Water for Schools is working with the South Africa Department of Basic Education, the Mvula Trust, and
H2O for Life to bring clean drinking water, gender-segregated latrines, and hygiene education to 100 schools and over
60,000 students in South Africa by 2012.
A similar, but smaller, project in Cameroon promoted child rights in water and sanitation, provided community-based hygiene
education, delivered latrines and wells in schools, and trained local water management committees. In Bolivia, the Water for Schools
program is providing health and hygiene education to 5,200 students and teachers in the local schools, installing 16 latrines,
and donating technology resources and libraries to further strengthen the educational experience. And in many other locations around
the world, our water-focused education and awareness efforts are reaching more than 8 million students and adults
through school-based programs and other community water projects.
Un-HABITAT and Coca-Cola: Sustainable Shelter and Safe Water in Urban Settings
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) promotes socially and environmentally sustainable towns and
cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. Its work is especially critical today as urban areas continue growing at
unprecedented rates, with cities now considered home by half of the world’s population.
The Coca-Cola Company’s partnership with Un-HABITAT for water conservation, which began in 2007, provides
access to water and sanitation, community-based rainwater harvesting, and groundwater recharge projects in India
and other rapidly urbanizing countries. The partnership supports several of the UN Millennium Development Goals, especially
Goal 7 related to reducing by half the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water.
To date, UN-HABITAT and The Coca-Cola Company have collaborated under the Water for Asian Cities program on pilot demonstration
projects that have benefitted more than 1 million residents of urban and peri-urban communities through education, water
access, and sanitation initiatives. In Madhya Pradesh, India, for example, the program is augmenting source water with rainwater
harvesting and new storage facilities at 16 schools. In West Bengal, the program is bringing safe drinking water to 150 schools.
And in Nepal, improved water management, hygiene, and sanitation are part of a new partnership for safe water. As the Water
for Asian Cities program gathers momentum, several organizations are joining forces, enabling us to reach even more people. The
partnership has now expanded to Bangladesh, Pakistan, Vietnam, Cambodia, and other countries, while inspiring new public-private
coalitions for urban water and sanitation.
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