{"id":53371,"date":"2013-02-24T20:56:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T20:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=53371"},"modified":"2013-02-24T20:56:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T20:56:03","slug":"africas-biggest-people-power-event-of-2013-one-month-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=53371","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s Biggest People Power Event of 2013 One Month Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">LONDON, United-Kingdom <b>&#8211; <\/b>Hundreds of thousands of Africans will join with people across the world to take action to call for an end to the water and sanitation crisis on the 20th anniversary of <strong>World Water Day<\/strong> on <strong>Friday 22nd of March<\/strong>.<b><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i>Hundreds of thousands of Africans will join with people across the world to take action<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To mark this moment, the World Walks for Water and Sanitation campaign have released a new film to inspire the public everywhere to join the world\u2019s largest global mass mobilisation movement for change.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/64aMyK3DwqE\" height=\"315\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Sub-Saharan Africa today, 330 million Africans (39% of the population) are without access to clean water.\u00a0 While a staggering 600 million go without safe sanitation \u2013 70% of the population.\u00a0 Every year 400,000 African children under the age of five die from diarrhoeal diseases brought about from a lack of these services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With a month to go, over 170,000 people are already planning to take part in walks in 25 countries including in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi and Madagascar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They will be walking in solidarity with the millions of Africans \u2013 overwhelmingly women and children &#8211; who walk great distances each day to collect water for their basic needs and who have no safe place to go to the toilet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The World Walks for Water and Sanitation events are part of the Keep Your Promises campaign, which calls on governments to honor the commitments they have made to finance and provide access to these basic human needs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Details of some of the events already being planned include:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>In Sierra Leone, over 2,500 people will be taking part in walks across the country, including in Freetown. The Minister for the recently established Ministry for Water Resources, Hon. Momodu Elongima Maligie, has been invited to attend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Over 300 young people will be joining a walk in Nairobi organised by the International Youth Council.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Liberia CSOs WASH Network is planning a three day sit-in and petition action at the Ministries of Health, Lands and Mines and Public Works. They\u2019re planning to collect 15,000 signatures calling for promises to be kept.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>10,000 people are planning to walk in Ghana whilst 3,000 people will walk in Malawi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Natasha Horsfield, a coordinator of the campaign added:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s time to tell world leaders that it\u2019s not acceptable for 2,000 children to be dying every day because they don\u2019t have clean drinking water or a safe place to go to the toilet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The World Walks for Water and Sanitation calls on people across Africa to join the thousands of campaigners walking to demand political leaders keep their promises on sanitation and water this World Water Day. Organise your own walk or join one near you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Find out more and register at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwalksforwater.org\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.worldwalksforwater.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Distributed by the African Press Organization on behalf of End Water Poverty.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>End Water Poverty<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, United-Kingdom &#8211; Hundreds of thousands of Africans will join with people across the world to take action to call for an end to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":53372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,751,673],"tags":[7522],"class_list":["post-53371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-global-news","category-national-news","tag-world-water-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}