Our chairwoman of Chay Ya Austria Sabine Klotz discusses WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) on the podium at an event of the province of Vorarlberg!
Invitation Development cooperation.in.conversation "WASH* yourself, if you can!"
Saturday, 25 July 2020 – 5 pm
Waldbühne, Reichenfeld – near the “Altes Hallenbad”, as part of the poolbar festival
Reichenfeldgasse 10, 6800 Feldkirch www.poolbar.at
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Welcome: Landesrätin Katharina Wiesflecker
Keynote speech by Alexander Öze (WASH* expert/Red Cross) on the topic:
WASH* in development cooperation and humanitarian aid
(Cooperation project with the state of Vorarlberg)
Followed by a panel discussion on the topic “WASH* yourself if you can! – Water, sanitation and hygiene in the context of humanitarian aid and development cooperation”:
- Cheikh Mbacke Gueye – Liechtensteinischer Entwicklungsdienst (LED) and lecturer at the University of Liechtenstein
- Christopher Friedrich – Volunteer of the Austrian Red Cross with assignments in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh and currently a researcher on emergency sanitation at eawag in Zurich
- Sabine Klotz – founder and chairwoman of Chay Ya Austria
- Yara Salem – Designer from Damascus/Syria, came to Austria in 2015 via various stations
Presentation: Philip Pramer (Der Standard)
*WASH stands for water, sanitation and hygiene in the context of humanitarian aid and development cooperation
The event takes place in cooperation with the Poolbar-Raumfahrt-Program.
WASH* yourself, if you can!
Drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in development cooperation and disaster relief.
Content:
Drinking WAter, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) are basic human needs. It is therefore surprising that almost 785 million people still have no access to acceptable drinking water supplies, more than 2 billion people have no access to acceptable toilets and more than 3 billion people have no acceptable hand washing facilities. This has many negative consequences on health, nutrition, schooling or equality, among other things.
In Europe, we are in the privileged position of being able to remove this basic provision from our consciousness as a matter of course. Of course, only as long as there is no catastrophe, as the example of Covid19 and the associated importance of hand hygiene shows us.
With this background, WASH interventions form an important building block, both in disaster relief and in long-term global development as defined by the global community in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (SDG#6).
The State of Vorarlberg and the Austrian Red Cross want to raise awareness of the global interrelationships of drinking water, sanitation and hygiene within the framework of the Poolbarfestival. In a panel discussion they want to illuminate the topic from different perspectives, thus stimulating reflection on the active and constructive shaping of our global future.