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Who We Are
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MUSIC POOP POVERTY?
Why We Do
Poverty = injustice
ANOTHER NOT-FOR-PROFIT??
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Capacity building Skills transfer Community immersion
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Water harvesting certification Green infrastructure
Offices in Tucson, Phoenix, Santa Barbara, Panchgani, India 20 employees 500+ volunteers 7 countries
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Panchgani Maharashtra
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Explosive Growth
Extreme Poverty
GRAMPARI
Programs: - Livelihoods - Governance - Health & Environment Mission: - Empower rural India through thoughtful, community-led programs - Founded in 2008 - 3 staff
Tonight:
NO SAD PICS NO GUILT Social capital
Your opportunity to make change
MUSIC
What’s poop got to do with it?
Poop and Poverty
Access to opportunity
Poop and Poverty
Waterborne diseases
Poop
Water Hands Food flies
you
Poop and Poverty
Poop for granted
UN Millennium Development Goals
Access to water Adequate sanitation Exceeding the water goal Behind on sanitation
Sanitation
MUSIC
Safe, Sustainable Water Access
WELCOME Pachputewadi Drinking water: - Contamination - Declining flows - 11 gallons per house per day COMPARED TO YOU
Safe, Sustainable Water Access
Over 50% of all water projects
FAIL
in the first few years
WHY?
Safe, Sustainable Water Access
NO CHARITY Community DESIGN Community LABOR Community FUNDING
Safe, Sustainable Water Access
EMPOWERMENT EQUITABLE skills transfer
INCLUSIVE decision making
LOCAL ownership
Safe, Sustainable Water Access
EMPOWERMENT EQUITABLE skills transfer
INCLUSIVE decision making
LOCAL ownership
MUSIC
Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
3.5 million children die from diarrheal diseases and respiratory infections every year.
% Reduction in Diarrheal Morbidity per Intervention
0%
10%
20%
30%
Hand washing with soap
44
Point of use water treatment Sanitation Water Supply
40%
39 32
25
Water Treatment 11
Modified From: Fewtrell et al. 2005. Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Interventions to Reduce Diarrhoea in Less Developed Countries: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 42-52.
Cost per Intervention to avert 1 DALY due to Diarrhea $5000
$4000
$3000
$2000
Cholera Immunizations Latrine Construction & Promotion Handpump or stand post
$1000
$0
1658 to 8274 < 270
94
Water sector regulation & advocacy
47
Hygiene promotion with hand washing with soap
3.35
Modified from: Laxminarayan et al. 2006. Intervention Cost-Effectiveness:Overview of Main Messages. Chapter 2. In. Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries. Second Edition. Edt. Jameson et al The World Bank. Washington DC: National Institutes of Health.
So whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the problem?
We are.
Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
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How do we make THIS happen? And stay happening?
Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
How can we have
more impact?
Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
How can we have
more impact?
Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
How can we have
more impact?
MUSIC
The world is changing.
The Future
20
15
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10
5 1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
The Future
die
who before age 5
Deaths in Millions (Children under 5)
# of children
20
15
10
5 1960
Modified From: Gates et al. 2005
1970
1980
1990
Year (1960 - 2005)
2000
The world is changing. For the better.
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