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SING FOR WATER was created to raise money for Water Projects through singing. So far the project has raised £220,000 for WaterAid projects in Africa and India. This year's UK events have raised over £40,000.
On September 16th at 2pm the sixth mass SING FOR WATER concert took place as part of the Thames Festival with a record 800 singers. Sponsorship money is still coming in but on the day an amazing £2900 was collected in the buckets.
Choirs and festivals around the UK and in France also organise their
own local SING FOR WATER events.
These play a vital role in raising funds to help those so depsarately in need
to clean safe water..
SING FOR WATER was recently awarded a President's Award by WaterAid for outstanding voluntary contriubution.
If
your choir would like to join this year's SING FOR WATER at the Thames Festival
on Sunday 16th September 2007,
please contact Kate Forde
k.forde@coin-street.org
If
you would like to organse your own local event please email Gemma Harris at
WaterAid singforwater@wateraid.org
Gemma can help with sponsorship forms and information.
SING FOR WATER events around the UK
Please
keep me posted about local Sing for Water events by emailing
romaine@helenchadwick.com
and I will put them on this site.
VOICE CAMP rasied over £5000 this year!
Chris
Samuel reports that Gasworks H20
BRISTOL SING FOR WATER led by Dee Jarlett,Ali Orbaum and Chris Samuel
of Bristol's Gasworks Choir with Naked Voices, went really well. The concert
raised over £3,000 and that's without all the sponsorship money from
the singers themselves. Chris also ran a Children's Sing for Water in Bradford
on Avon and collected another £329.
SING
FOR WATER WHITSABLE organized by Stephanie
Brunton with the Whitstable Whistlefish and Friends
raised £215.00.
SING AND SWIM FOR WATER organized by Rowena Whitehead in the ipen air pool in Cambridge raised £1300.
The
West Wiltshire Water Wailers Sing for
Water
19th September St Margaret's Hall, Bradford on Avon 6.30-8.00pm Tickets £2.00
Join a combined choir of primary school children from around Bradford on Avon
for the only Children Sing for Water performance outside of London.
SING FOR WATER OXFORD organized by Liz Hodgson raised £993 for WaterAid on 23rd March. The groups taking part were the Seagreen Singers ( Oxford's socialist choir ), the Oxford Community Choir, the Oxford Gospel Choir and Joined-up Singing.
CONGRATULATIONS AND THANKS TO ALL INVOLVED IN THESE AND OTHER EVENTS.
If
you would like help by organsing your own local event please email Gemma Harris
at WaterAid singforwater@wateraid.org
who can help with sponsorship forms and information on the project in
Ghana SING FOR WATER supports.
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Seeing
clean water change lives
In October 2005 Helen Chadwick and Pauline Down visited
the Ghanaian WaterAid project SING FOR WATER supports. We visited the village
of Najore where most people had suffered from Guinea Worm and there was no
safe water to drink.
Since our visit a new bore hole has been built, see below. Many more villages
need our help.
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Here
is a message from Rockson who working in the villages we are supporting in
Ghana
BELATED HAPPY NEW YEAR,
Dear Colleagues in the business of working towards improving the very lives
of the very poor around the world through support to provision of safe water.
It's out of great joy to inform you that NAJORE, a the guinea worm endemic
community which you visited in Volta Region in Ghana under APDO's project
has wet borehole drilled for them which installation in in progress. GOD bless
you all for your great efforts towards humanity
REGARDS from all APDO staff!!!!!!! ROCKSON DUTENYA
and
one from Modoc, the inspoirational man who runs APDO, the local NGO running
the projects
Hi
My Sister,
I am with great joy to announce to you that the women of Najore with your
contribution would not have to walk 4km for only 35litres of disease infected
water but now they need to walk thirty metres away from the community for
a very clean water.
I and the country Rep of Water Aid witness the event with much joy where women
of Najore could not hide their happiness and joy for what has happen to their
commnity.
I send you pictures of the drilling process.
Send my greetings to all who dear to you I wish all MERRY CHRISTMASS AND A
HAPPY NEW YEAR
keep fit
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SING FOR WATER AUSTRALIA
Following three concerts in London, Associate Director of Thames Festival,
Catherine Reiser relocated to Australia where she founded Sing for Water Australia.
The first night time version was co-produced by Riverfestival for Brisbane,
followed by a Sing for Water concert in Melbourne as part of The Commonwealth
Games Cultural Festival. Riverfestival in Brisbane continues to create Sing
for Water as an annual event as Catherine continues plans for a Sing for Water
in Sydney and other cities. Sing for Water Australia has raised over 55,000
Australia dollars which has been funding WaterAid projects in East Timor and
Papua New Guinea.
To donate on line visit
www.justgiving.com/singforwater2007
LINKS
Thames Festival www.thamesfestival.org
Sing
for Water Australia www.singforwateraustralia.com
www.riverfestival.com.au
WaterAid www.wateraid.org
CREDITS
Photographs by WaterAid, Burhan Ahmad, Simon Richardson and Alex Macro.