March 22, Uganda joins the rest of the world to commemorate the World Water Day. The global theme is; Water for cities: responding to the urban challenge, which aims to highlight and encourage governments, organizations, communities, and individuals to actively engage in addressing the challenge of urban water management.
As part of a global movement for change, water and sanitation campaigners in Uganda are walking a symbolic 6km distance in solidarity with the millions of people who have to walk 6km everyday just to collect water for their basic needs.
This campaign aims at raising awareness of the water and sanitation crisis and demand concrete action from politicians to tackle the water and sanitation crisis in the country. Campaigners are targeting politicians demanding that water and sanitation be made a political priority.
World Walks for Water campaigners are demanding the Uganda government to push water and sanitation up on the national agenda. They are also demanding politicians to honour promises made as part of the Millennium Development Goals to halve the proportion of people without access to sanitation and water by 2015.
“A lack of access to safe, clean water and sanitation locks people in to a vicious cycle of disease, poverty and under-development. Children are kept from going to school and gaining an education and women are denied economic equality because of the time and energy spent gathering water,” said the Executive Director of Uganda Water and Sanitation Network Doreen Wandera.
As part of a global movement for change, water and sanitation campaigners in Uganda are walking a symbolic 6km distance in solidarity with the millions of people who have to walk 6km everyday just to collect water for their basic needs.
This campaign aims at raising awareness of the water and sanitation crisis and demand concrete action from politicians to tackle the water and sanitation crisis in the country. Campaigners are targeting politicians demanding that water and sanitation be made a political priority.
World Walks for Water campaigners are demanding the Uganda government to push water and sanitation up on the national agenda. They are also demanding politicians to honour promises made as part of the Millennium Development Goals to halve the proportion of people without access to sanitation and water by 2015.
“A lack of access to safe, clean water and sanitation locks people in to a vicious cycle of disease, poverty and under-development. Children are kept from going to school and gaining an education and women are denied economic equality because of the time and energy spent gathering water,” said the Executive Director of Uganda Water and Sanitation Network Doreen Wandera.
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