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Lions Clubs have been supporting WaterAid projects in numerous ways from a Boxing Day dip in the North Sea to recycling old mobile phones. All donations from Lions Clubs are being channelled into WaterAid's projects in Malawi and Nepal this year.

In January 2004 Lion Ram Jaggi represented Lions Clubs International Multiple District 105 on a supporter visit to WaterAid projects in Malawi.

"Lions International has supported WaterAid's work with vigour and dedication for many years and it was with this in mind that I travelled to visit WaterAid's work in Malawi earlier this year. There I saw the situations that families face without clean water to drink and how simple ingredients such as clean water and latrines make such a big difference to the lives of so many.

Above all else WaterAid's work is low cost, low tech and sustainable ensuring that the benefits of safe water, sanitation and hygiene education are felt long into the future. Lions fully support this objective and the wonderful spirit in which the work is being carried out and we continue to share in WaterAid's vision of a world in which everyone has access to safe water and sanitation."

Lion Ram Jaggi - Multiple District 105, International Relations Officer 2006/07.

To join the mailing list for the Lions newsletter or to book a speaker please email us, stating your name, full address and the name of your Club, or call Sarina on 020 7793 4550.

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Resources

If you would like to find out about the resources we have available to support any fundraising you undertake, for example posters and collecting envelopes, or if you are simply looking for ideas on how you can help why not visit our fundraising resources pages.

 
Personal perspective
Hawa Salimua from Mzalule in Malawi
Thanks to clean water in the village of Mzalule in Malawi, Hawa Salimua is much healthier and more hopeful for the future.

"The water is much sweeter than it used to be when it was an open well. It was dirty then, but now it's clean. We used to have a bucket on a string that we pulled up from the well and debris used to fall in which caused people to have terrible stomach pains." 
"I was always getting diarrhoea with extremely painful stomachache and sometimes I remember seeing blood in my faeces.  Now those stomach pains have vanished and it feels so hygienic to be drinking this water.  I feel that my children will be born into a much better future because of this clean water.''

WaterAid/Jon Spaull