Kidderminster Soroptimists responded to the appeal from WaterAid to turn ‘Wine into Water’ to mark World Water Day on 22 March 2012 by raising £50 from a ‘Wine and Water’ raffle at their recent meeting. WaterAid is working in countries such as Uganda to help local people sink boreholes and promote vital sanitation and hygiene education. This especially helps young girls who get up at daybreak every day to fetch water for their families from the nearest stream several miles away which interrupts their schooling and without clean water they suffer sickness making it even harder to attend all their classes.

Stephanie Ainsley, Joint President says "Clean water is essential for life, but 884 million people live without access to it. This and the lack of safe sanitation, results in over two million people dying from water-related diseases every year. The lack of clean water close to people's homes also affects people's time, livelihoods, and quality of life. We do not suffer with these problems in Wyre Forest and take for granted that we turn on a tap and have clean, safe water. We were very pleased to have made a donation to help in a small way the valuable work that Water Aid is doing. Their work really does make a difference to improve the lives of whole communities and is part of our mission to help women and children worldwide”.

For more information on WaterAid please visit www.wateraid.org For more details regarding the activities and membership of the Club, please email on kidderminstersorop@gmail.com or look at our website link on www.sigbi.org