By Kankshi Bhavsar | Manager-Programs
The team of Ashray also celebrated this day along with the public of Parsund village. On 22nd March’18, a painting competition on the theme “Water” was held in Parsund school and the students enthusiastically took part in the same. Again an expert lecture and film show was organized for school children of that village.
World water Day, on 22nd March each year, is tied in with making a move to handle the water emergency everywhere throughout the world. Today, 1.8 billion individuals utilize a wellspring of drinking water sullied with dung, putting them in danger of contracting Cholera, Dysentery, Typhoid and Polio.
The Sustainable Development Goals, propelled in 2015, incorporate an objective to guarantee everybody attains water safety by 2030, making water a key issue in the battle to fight poverty. In 1993, the United Nations General Assembly formally assigned March 22 as World Water Day.
World Water Day, on 22 March every year, is about focusing attention on the importance of water. The theme for World Water Day 2018 is ‘Nature for Water’ – exploring nature-based solutions to the water challenges we face in the 21st century. Nature-based solutions have the potential to solve many of our water challenges. Planting new forests, reconnecting rivers to floodplains, and restoring wetlands will rebalance the water cycle and improve human health and livelihoods.
To work in alignment with worldwide councils like UN-Water, remembering the topic of the year and the youth of the country if showed well then they can bring a colossal change by their little-little endeavors consequently, we chose to demonstrate the children educational videos.
Educational videos on the topic of forestation, water table conservation and cleaning of rivers were shown to 178 youngsters in Parsund village. After each film the Medical Officer explained the information given in the videos to the youngsters. The youngsters took home the message of sparing and saving water and how the plantation helps in water conservation.
A drawing competition was also organized for 178 youngsters. We feel glad to demonstrate that the kids had drawn different thoughts as they had taken motivation from the videos.
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