The night of the Award Event, August 29th 2012, Copenhagen City/Town Hall, we choose a winner and present them with the Water and Food Award statuette as well as prizes provided by our sponsors.

Sponsor Event and Pre-Launch of Event Finalists June 14th 2012, 15-19hrs, at Copenhagen City Townhall

Please indicate your interest  at the contact page and you will receive more information.

You will also be able to register via our website, www.wafaward.org, which will be launched in May 2012. Stay tuned.

WATER AND FOOD FOR ALL – STRENGTHENING WHAT WORKS

The Winner of the Humanitarian Water and Food Award 2010, Permaculture Institute with their Greening the Desert project in Jordan, represented by Rhamis Kent, and Founder and General Secretary of WAF, Tina Lindgreen

TOGETHER SOLVING A GLOBAL CHALLENGE

Over 837 million human beings (1 in 7) are without access to clean water and more than 913 million are undernourished. Through The Water & Food Award, we strengthen innovative and sustainable initiatives that are making a significant difference by empowering the poor and forgotten.

To see the WINNERS 2010 click here

To read more about the first Award Event from the 26th November 2010 click here

State-of-the-art nominees click here

SUSTAINABLE SHARED VALUE PARTNERSHIPS

To maximize social, financial and environmental impact, WAF facilitates Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) opportunities for mutual gain. The strategic fit between a Corporations and Award Winner give both an opportunity to prosper.

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It is about human beings, about lives, about existence

The Water & Food Organisation has a vision – Water and Food for All. This concerns everyone and requires global outreach and collaboration. Award winners have the innovativeness and heart. Corporations the resources to scale up what works and can save many more lives.

The Water & Food Organisation conveys a message of hope and a call for public awareness about the Water and Food challenge. WAF calls for joint action across the business, citizen and public sectors of society.

Water is the universal elixir of life. It makes up more than 70 percent of our total body mass and covers the same proportion of the Earth’s surface. We can live without food for a month or more, but we will perish in a matter of days without water. Hence the

importance of keeping unseparated Water-and-Food as the most basic necessity.

 

 

Ambassador of Peace – Prem Rawat Honored in Potenza, Italy

“Our differences of opinion should be our strength, not our weakness. We have to learn to come together, and that can only happen when we see the necessity.”

Climate Action member of the Barroso Commission designate, Connie Hedegaard

“I am pleased to see that The Humanitarian Water & Food Award works for furthering Corporate Social Responsibility and the collaboration between business life and humanitarian organisations”

Former Danish Minister of Development, Ulla Toernes

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“Denmark is internationally at the forefront. The Award goes hand-in-hand with the government’s efforts. So I want to say best foot forward and I hope that it will be a yearly event”

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The Water & Food Award …

• offers a Corporate Social Responsibility platform for corporations who want to bring their best to help empower the poor and forgotten and expand their own business at the same time
• raises awareness of what works
• encourages that all people enjoy clean water and food in abundance
• short-lists humanitarian initiatives that make a significant difference and is scalable
• has fun volunteering – what can you do?

AWARD APPLICATION FOR 2012 IS  NOW CLOSED

Please register your e-mail on our front page. A notification will be sent when the next award application is available.

VIDEOS OF THE WINNERS 2010

Solvatten │ The Permaculture Institute│The Hunger Project │IKO toilets │ Sadhana Forest

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And other inspirational videos about positive initiatives

Read more about the award here…

UGANDA near Lake Victoria in the South-East:

Women are bearing more of the burden of lack of water among the  world’s poor who are dependent on rain-fed agriculture. Women are  responsible for securing water for domestic use, spending hours fetching water for their families.  Water from distant sources is rarely enough to meet the needs of the household and is often contaminated. Women and girls also pay the heaviest price for poor sanitation.

KWDT trained women masons in the community in the skills rainwater harvesting and  building water tanks. They also trained them to start up kitchen gardens to supply vegetables to the homes. So far, 204 rainwater-harvesting tanks have been constructed in 204 households providing water at household level, and more are still being constructed.

With access to water in the household, women can now establish kitchen gardens and rear more animals and benefit from increased production of milk, providing adequate milk to sell to raise incomes and reserve 1 litre per family for home consumption for families of 7-8 members.

Cowdung  gives  organic manure to utilise in the vegetable gardens enhancing productivity.

UGANDA: Unexpected changes in climate mean that nowadays drought. Adapting and evolving traditional farming  needs effort from everyone but youth
fear to embrace it as they always want white-collar jobs. One farmer decided to show the way, exploring sustainable techniques himself to show what is possible.
Ingeniously  using the output of one element to cycle to the other, diary rearing helps biogas production which gives energy for cooking and lighting, as well as  manure, which goes to the fields together for mulching. Pigs and poultry combine to use nutrients effectively.

A demonstration garden of two acres  running for three years shows how  once very poor sandy land has gained its fertility, rendering stubborn weeds called striga(ssp) dormant, that affect the growth of cereals. Before mulching, maize production was 600kg, but three years on one acre produces 3,500kg of maize grain and it is planted twice a year.

The project we call ZABU farm demonstrates the difference one person can make.

Guyana South America: Block 22, Wismar Linden, is a squatter settlement with shelters of cardboard and plastic formed on land condemned by the Government.  Many single women with children were in a very difficult situation: poor nutrition, leaving children out of  school, high unemployment,  living of odd jobs, some in sex work. The Christian Development Organisation carried out a needs assessment with these women which resulted in them  helping the women plant plantain and bananas – simple techniques, with a quick replication.  The bananas and suckers created food and income from selling shoots and other y-products. The community activity has expanded:

1. The community of women farmers continue to farm and has expanded into small scale processing.
2. They have expanded to plant cash crops such as peppers ,pakchoi etc.
3. Houses are expanding , some are being painted due to the increase of earnings.
4. They have cleaned the creek in the community allowing for free flow of water, reduction of mosquitoes.
5. Children are going out to school in larger numbers.
6. The government has placed potable water in the community
7. A church is now being built there
8. Block is now being serviced mostly by the post man

KENYA: Hunger and poverty  is multidimensional: it includes lack of education, famine and food insecurity, lack of access to health care and clean water, and living in miserable conditions. SEANET is working with education, to bring school gardens that feed students and act as demonstration plots for the whole community and to stimulate entrepreneurship. And SEANET are using the power of the Internet in their E-Learning approach. To date,  via the 11 schools participating, thousands of pupils, parents and local people have been involved.  The gardens have shown improved productivity which is helping from the ground up. Students nutrition is improved, as well as the spread of knowledge to the local neighborhoods.

Sponsor Event & Pre-Launch of Award Finalists 2012

Registration is now Open

June 14th – 15:00-19:00

 Copenhagen City Townhall

Sponsors have been requesting to get to know the finalists prior to The Award Event.    Hence a Pre-Launch will take place June 14th 2012 in Copenhagen City Hall.

The purpose is to present The Award Finalist, so that sponsors will get first hand knowledge of the initiatives they are sponsoring. It is also an opportunity to get insight in Shared Value CSR Partnership opportunities with Award Finalists and insight in initiatives that acutally work and succeed in creating sustainable solutions for people in need of clean water and food.

AWARDS & CSR

World Class Nominees & CSR Opportunities

You are invited to join us at the cutting edge of social and corporate development: water and food for all

Our vision is a world where social and corporate forces combine to create a world where everyone is well fed. A world where corporations are doing well by doing good. And it is happening. Every year the Humanitarian Water & Food Award searches for the most innovative and sustainable initiatives for water and food security. Every year the Award gains more experience in and insight into what is happening around the world and where determination, entrepreneurship, love and compassion are changing the world for the better.

The Award: celebrating social achievement

To call what the Award is offering a business opportunity is an understatement. It is offering individuals and corporations the opportunity to be part of a world where social responsibility brings food and water security to create the foundation for shared prosperity and shared economic development – and peace.

Now in its 4^th year, with its second award program well underway, the Award organisation has gathered wide experience around burning CSR questions like

• Where is the business case for corporations to support water and food security?
• How do water and food security activities fit into business strategy?
• What are the main elements of sustainable solutions to food security?
• What technology is badly needed and where are the markets?
• Where and how can business get involved in being part of the solution?

Danish entrepreneurship: business innovation with compassion

The Award’s some 100 initiatives applying over the last few years all represent opportunities for corporations to engage their customers, suppliers, employees and other stakeholders in supporting these remarkable stories of success, to put real results with real people and the heart of their social responsibility programs and to participate in building wealth and prosperity in new ways in new places for themselves and the communities their customers live in.

You are invited

You are cordially invited to attend the Sponsor Event & Pre-Launch of Award Finalist 2012 together with other executives, for a day of insight, dialogue and inspiration. You will get first hand knowledge of the finalists and the partner opportunities they represent. It is an opportunity to raise the bar for Danish entrepreneurship at its best: Successful businesses – blindingly innovative and humanly compassionate.

ACTION Program

Presentation of the five finalists for The Humanitarian Water & Food Award 2012

Time: June 14th 2012 – 15.00–19.00hrs
Place: Copenhagen Town Hall, 1599 Copenhagen V

Conferenciér: Henrik Byager

Participants:

Media, sponsors and collaborators

The Humanitarian Water & Food Award, WAF, will reveal the five finalists who will be competing about the first prize. In reality they are all winners.

The Award will be presented on August 29th in connection with a CSR & Shared Value Conference and a significant Award Show for 400 attendees assembled at the Copenhagen Town hall. On to of the honour and the Award Prize of DKK 75,000 for from further development and scaling up of the winning project there is an opportunity to discuss PARTNERSHIPS with corporations and knowledge institutions in order to add as much strength as possible.

The amount depends on the amount of Sponsor and CSR agreements, which will be entered with corporations and funds.

Free admittance and Donaions

Register by sending an e-mail to Laila Udby: laud@wafaward.org
In the event of no-show, having registered and not informed about absence, you will be invoiced DKK 250.

Donations are received with sincere thanks. Copenhagen Municipally sponsors the venue and volunteers organize the event. However money is needed for paying the mandatory Town Hall staff, transport and buffet. You may transfer an amount of your choice to WAF’s account in Merkur Bank 8401-0001099672.

Schedule

15.00	Registration – networking
15.30	Welcome Henrik Byager Communication advisor, journalist & lecturer	Henrik Byager
15.35	Shared value instead of ’aid’ Tina Lindgreen, generalsekretær WAF, based on years’ of experience of business and social innovation presents how the Award can take us on the fast track to sustainable business as unusual.	Tina Lindgreen
15.50	Partnerships between NGOs and corporations Stephen Hinton, Award Applications Manager, Author, Advisor and Lecturer talks about his astonishing findings of sustainable and innovative WORLD CLASS initiatives from around the world.	Stephen Hinton
16.05	The 5 WAF Award Finalister 2012Members of the Selection Committee, Ellen Buch-HansenM.Sc. Human Geography, Sociology and AnthropologyBased on a broad experience record working with development issues in different contexts Ellen presents the before and after of the Award Finalists together withSteve Pickering, vice-chairman of ShelterBox Denmark, the Danish affiliate of a leading disaster relief NGO and Past President of Copenhagen International Rotary Club.	Ellen Buch-Hansen Steve Pickering
16.45	Break
17.05	Fairytale: “Water & Food for All” Peter H. Fogtdal, authorhas written 12 novels/3 bestsellers (i.e. Tsar’s Dwarf, The Dreamer from Palestine, Scorpio’s Tale) two TV-plays and tons of satire texts for radio and TV.	Peter H. Fogtdal
17.15	Presentations continue
17.30	Dialogue
18.00	Buffet and networking
19.00	Event concludes

rights to changes in the program

San Jose’ in Santiago, CHILE.

Slum dwellers’ water supply is more expensive and more contaminated. They spend heavily on boiling water and their children miss schooling due to sickness.
Un Tech mi para pais –An organization working to improve people ‘s lives in the slums, Introduced the PWSS (Plasma Water Sanitation system), developed by the Advanced Innovation Center, which pipes clean water from a central purification plant.
This high-tech approach is highly effective, uses little energy and does not require high maintenance like filter changes.
Un tech mi para pais shows us the difference high tech can make when applied to basic needs.

A prototype of a wind turbine that produces water has been tested in the Abu Dhabi desert since last October.

Thanks to Treehugger for bringing this invention to our attention.

Tamil Nadu and  Odisha INDIA:   Climate change, poor soil, high immigration, were all contributing to low productivity and poverty.

The M.S Swanminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF)  brought people together in  various water user groups/associations, paddy and pulse farmers groups, women’s self-help groups, and well water user groups. The Foundation taught holistic farming, community based equity approaches and helped with enterprise development.  This involved 5000 indirectly in the project sites and has brought increased land productivity, through improved water harvesting structures and an increase in local enterprise. The Foundation demonstrates how effective science-based inititiaves can be when combined with a people-centred and process-oriented approach.

WEBSITE http://www.mssrf.org/index.html

SEE other applicants here.

Water For People brings together local entrepreneurs, civil society, governments, and communities to establish creative, collaborative solutions that allow people to build and maintain their own reliable safe water systems. Empowering everyone transforms people’s lives by improving health and economic productivity to end the cycle of poverty.  WEBSITE: http://www.waterforpeople.org/

This chart comes from an article in the Washington post entitled “the end of fish in one chart”.