HQ REPORT
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
1st October 2015
Shree Prajapati Association helps transform lives
in the Amhara region of Ethiopia
President
The Shree Prajapati Association (SPA UK), a UK-based Hindu charity, has raised £18,996.51 for WaterAid,
by carrying out a number of local activities, including fundraising dinners and sponsored walks, over a
period of 12 months. This gift will be used to transform lives in Ethiopia’s Burie district, located in the
northern Amhara region. The district has one of the lowest levels of safe water supplies and improved
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sanitation in Ethiopia.
lack of safe latrines is also a serious issue.
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When WaterAid started work in the region in 2013, only 17% of the population had access to clean water. It
meant that most communities had no choice but to drink from dirty water sources, making many of the
children sick. Thousands had no access to toilets and were forced to go outside which spread disease fast,
and few had awareness of good hygiene to keep their families healthy.
SPA UK’s gift will help WaterAid ensure that by 2016 everyone in the district has access to clean water and
a decent toilet. WaterAid is working together with members of the community, and using locally available
materials to ensure that the project is sustainable in the long term. WaterAid is the only organisation
carrying out this type of work in the area.
The President of SPA UK, Jitubhai Mistry, who also worked in the UK water industry for over 35
years said:
“It is a great pleasure to be involved in supporting WaterAid’s activities. It is even more pleasing to see SPA
UK choosing to support a project in Ethiopia as I was born and brought up in Ethiopia. I have a good local
knowledge of the area and I am confident that people in the Amhara region will benefit from this project.”
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Notes to Editors:
WaterAid
WaterAid’s vision is of a world where everyone has access to safe water and sanitation. The
international organisation works in 37 countries across Africa, Asia, Central America and the Pacific
Region to transform lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in some of the
world’s poorest communities. Since 1981, WaterAid has reached 23 million people with safe water and,
since 2004, 21 million people with sanitation. For more information, visit www.wateraid.org, follow
@WaterAidUK on Twitter, or visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/wateraid.
Around 1,400 children die every day from diseases caused by dirty water and poor sanitation.
That’s one child every minute.
WaterAid was our chosen Charity in 2014/2015. With generous contribution from our 14 Branch Associations, Shree
Prajapati Association (UK) was able to present a cheque for £18,996.51 to Falicity De Ste Croix, representing WaterAid
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charity, at the Pratinidhi meeting held at London Samaj hall on Sunday 20th September 2015