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Wiktoria Liszka and Karolina Rogala
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What is the UNICEF Tap Project?
In 2007, the UNICEF Tap Project was born in New York City based on a simple concept:
restaurants would ask their patrons to donate $1 or more for the tap water they usually
enjoy for free, and all funds raised would support UNICEF’s efforts to bring clean and
accessible water to millions of children around the world.
Since its inception in 2007, the UNICEF Tap Project has raised nearly $3 million in the
U.S. and has helped provide clean water for millions of children globally. Now in its
sixth year, the award-winning UNICEF Tap Project, a nationwide campaign sponsored
by the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, will return during World Water Week, March 19–25. The
first program of its kind, the UNICEF Tap Project has become a dynamic movement
that affords everyone the opportunity to help provide the world’s children with safe,
clean water.
Through numerous fundraising and volunteer activities, the UNICEF Tap Project
celebrates the clean water we enjoy on a daily basis by encouraging celebrity,
restaurant, volunteer, corporate, and government supporters to give this vital resource
to children in developing countries. The concept is basic and compelling: “When You
Take Water, Give Water.”
2012 UNICEF Tap Project Funds will specifically target Togo, Vietnam, Mauritania, and
Cameroon.
UNICEF has saved more children’s lives than
any other humanitarian organization, and
UNICEF is committed to doing whatever it
takes to achieve the goal of reaching the day
when ZERO children die of preventable
causes. Currently, UNICEF works in more
than 100 countries around the world to
improve access to safe water and sanitation
facilities in schools and communities, and to
promote safe hygiene practices.
The report highlights, however, that the world is still far from meeting the MDG target
for sanitation, and is unlikely to do so by 2015. Only 63% of the world now have improved
sanitation access, a figure projected to increase to only 67% by 2015, well below the 75%
aim in the MDGs. Currently 2.5 billion people still lack improved sanitation.
The world water crisis
- Every day 3,000 children die of diarrheal disease caused from consuming unsafe water.
Nearly 783 million people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water.
- Just $1 raised through the UNICEF Tap Project can provide a child with safe water for
40 days.
- The simple act of washing a child’s face
with clean water can prevent debilitating
diseases—like blinding trachoma, an
infectious eye disease that spreads from
child to child. The world’s leading cause
of preventable blindness, blinding
trachoma is endemic in 57 countries,
with 1.2 billion people living in
trachoma-endemic areas, primarily in
the poorest communities in the
developing world—meaning millions of
children without access to clean water
are at risk of becoming blind from
trachoma.
Partners
Many celebrities, actors and singers taking
part in the UNICEF Tap Project. These
include Selena Gomez, Zac Efron, Artur
Zmijewski, Margaret Foremniak, Angelina
Jolie, Taylor Swift, Rihanna and many more.
Bibliography:
Music : M. Jackson- We are the world (instrumental)
Information: www.tapproject.org
Photos:
http://ekurjerwarszawski.pl/miasto/inwestycje/1201/hgw-te-inwestycje-moznaodczuc-probujac-wody-z-kranu.html,
http://thoughtsfromthebirdhouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/unicef-tapproject.html,
http://theconsumerism.com/celebrity-tap-project-by-unicef/