Africa Water, Sanitation & Hygiene September - October 2016 Vol. 11 No.4 | Page 24

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Cardinal Turkson to speak on water and faith
during World Water Week

Kibaki has established the Mwai Kibaki Institute, which
caters for several programmes including Water Diplomacy,
Green Energy, Coffee Revitalization and many other
development projects and activities.
Mwai Kibaki is also the Patron of the Millennium Water
Alliance, a multi-donor-funded initiative that seeks to make
potable drinking water accessible to communities that are
under threat of water security and scarcity.

His Eminence Cardinal Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice
and Peace, Vatican has been confirmed to speak at the opening of this year’s World
Water Week.

This August, Cardinal Turkson from the Vatican will
partake in the World Water Week Opening Plenary. He will
also present the keynote at a panel on water and faith on
Monday afternoon.
The event will highlight the importance of partnership
between Faith Based Organizations and the Water
Development Community to achieve the water related
Sustainable Development Goals. It will bring together high
level representatives of global faith communities including
Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Sikh representatives
to build bridges of dialogue and commitment to the
implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6
which proposes to ”Ensure availability and sustainable
management of water and sanitation for all.”

On 5 April 2016, Mwai Kibaki was designated as
a UNESCO Special Envoy for Water in Africa in
recognition of the former President’s efforts to highlight
education as an important tool for the success of waterrelated projects and activities, promote water management
in a sustainable manner, support initiatives aiming to
make potable drinking water accessible to communities,
notably in his capacity as a Patron of the Millenium Water
Alliance.
In his capacity as a UNESCO Special Envoy for Water
in Africa, Mwai Kibaki lends his support to UNESCO
in mobilizing the international community, Heads of
State and Government, as well as civil society actor