Celebration of World Water Day 2019

WASH Dept.

25, March, 2019

From: Abdul Hakim Popal-WaSH DPM

To: Hikmatullah Hakimi-WaSH PM
Subject: World Water Day Celebration.
Date: 25-March-2019
Participant List
AAH-Field Manager, AAH WaSH Department and Education Department
Personnel celebrated world water day.

PREFACE
The execution world water day celebration.
Helmand WaSH-Department has one major aspects, which is world water day celebration.

WASH:
Gathering Summary:

World Water Celebration

World water day celebrated by WaSH Team with Education Department in Central
Girls high school, AAH-HL-Field Manager, all WaSH Team, Education department
director, Principals of Education, school principal, teachers and 500 students(250 boys
and 250 girls) students participated in world water day celebration, After the
introduction and recitation of Holly Quran, The world water day celebration started with
opening speech of WaSH Program Manager(Hikmatullah Hakimi), first he welcomed
the participants and explained WaSH implemented activities in schools to them and
also his speech was about water importance, After Hakimi speech Education department
director started speech and his speech was about water importance, water saving, water
pollution and using of water in schools, he thanked from AAH activities which were
done in schools and said that activities are not enough for schools and requested to
continue related activities in schools
Students have written some drawings about water saving, water pollution, water
hygiene and waste away from water, Girls students have done a role play about water
using and saving of water (the role play was about water and using of water in
community while AAH Staff is going to field and give information about water
hygiene). AAH WaSH Team explained water saving, water pollution, wast away from
water and distributed some bags for those girls who made the arts and drawing about
water, and distributed kits for all student who participated in world water day
celebration.

World Water Day History.

World Water Day is celebrated every year on 22nd of March by the people all across the
world. The day was established to be celebrated as an annual event in the year 1993 by
the decision of the United Nations General Assembly. This campaign was declared as a
World Day for Water to be celebrated on 22nd of March each year to increase the
awareness among the people about the importance, need and conservation of water.
It was first officially added in the schedule 21 of the year 1992 “United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development” in the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and

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celebration was started from the year 1993 to motivate the general public in order to get
their support in water conservation by avoiding the use of their taps for whole day.

Why World Water is celebrated?

The United Nation including member nations celebrate this campaign by implementing
the UN recommendations as well as promoting the global water conservation through
the real activities. This campaign is specially promoted by one of the UN agencies every
year which involves encouraging the people to listen and understand about the water
issues as well as coordinating with the international activities for the World Water
Day.Since the beginning of this event celebration the UN-Water has been responsible
for the selection of World Water Day theme, distribution of global messages as well as
leading the UN agencies for celebrating the World Day for Water. Including the UN
member states and agencies, various NGOs and non-government organizations also
become involved in the promotion of clean water conservation focusing the public
attention over all the critical issues of water. During this event celebration, all the water
issues are highlighted to the public such as how people are inaccessible to the safe water
and etc…

How world water is celebrated?

World water day is celebrated throughout the world to increase the awareness of people
towards the importance of water in various field of life including the environment,
health, agriculture and trade. It is celebrated by organizing variety of events and
activities such as visual art, theatrical and musical celebrations of water, excursions to
the local ponds, lakes, rivers and reservoirs, symposium at local, national and
international level over water management and safety, distributing messages through
TV and radio channels or internet, educational events based on the importance of clean
water and conservative measures, competitions and so many activities. The main
symbol of the World Water Day celebration is the shape of water drop of blue colour.

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Pictures of Participants.

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World Water Day Agenda.

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 (March, 25, 2019)
8:30 to 9:00 Preparation of Hall WaSH Team
9:00 to 9:10 Recitation of Holy Quran Mullah/Teacher

9:10 to 9:15 Opening Speech Field manager/Hakimi

9:15 to 9:30 World Water Day Speech Director of Education
Department- Helmand
9:30 to 10:00 World Water Day General information WaSH Team

10:00 To 10:15 DARAM/Act show For World Water Day Students of School
10:15 To 10:25 Break Distribution of Materials WaSH Team/All participants

10:25 To 11:00 Tea/Juice Break All participant

11:00 to11:15 Gift for students participated in role play WaSH Team
11:15 to 11:30 Hygiene kit Distribution for Guest WaSH Team

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A Gathering Photos x
B x
Public expectations
C x
Agenda