Sustainable Water Use in 20 Communities

Water Conservation

Summary

Ecoclubs promote awareness of water consumption in communities. They create a coalition among businesses, the community, the government and grantmakers to care for our water supplies.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $497 was raised for this project.

Received $497 from 6 donations from people like:

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The project's direct beneficiaries will be the 60 youth facilitators of the Ecoclubs and the 100 teachers of the participating schools. Indirectly the initiative will involve 400 young people from Ecoclubs and approximately 12,500 children and schoolteachers.

Activities

1- Selection of Ecoclubs; 2- Proposals to schools; 3- Initial training of Ecoclubs; 4- Program development; 5- Posting experiences and testimonies on the Web; 6- Program evaluation and integration of new Ecoclubs

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $497

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $497 .  The original project funding goal was $51,400.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

Resources

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Promoting healthy habits related to the consumption and care of water; helping correct negative practices; reducinge present and future problems in Argentina and in Latin America; spreading awareness of clean water as a fundamental right.

Project Message

95% of environmental problems are caused by daily human actions that affect the balance of our ecosystem. We work to change those habits that negatively affect the environment and, later, ourselves.
- Ricardo Bertolino, Founder & Director of Ecoclubs

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Ricardo Bertolino
Founder & Director of Ecoclubes International
Florida 253, 3º C
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 1005
Argentina
54 11 43282780
Email:

Project Sponsor

HelpArgentina

Organization

Fundacion Ecoclubes Logo

Fundacion Ecoclubes
Florida 253, 3º C
Buenos Aires, 1005
Argentina
+54 11 43282780

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in ArgentinaArgentina and can also be found under EnvironmentEnvironment.

For more information about Argentina, read the Human Development Report on Argentina or the Wikipedia entry for Argentina.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 15, 2006