Stockholm World Water Week is the annual focal point for the globe's water issues. Organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), the conference brings together participants from more than 190 countries to exchange knowledge and develop solutions to the world's most pressing water-related challenges.

In 2024, World Wa­ter Week is a hy­brid event, run­ning both on­line and on-site be­tween 25th and 29th Au­gust. The venue is Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre in the heart of Stock­holm.

With a theme of "Bridging Borders: Water for a Peaceful and Sustainable Futures", this year's event in­vites us to rec­og­nize the re­gional and global in­ter­con­nec­tiv­ity of com­mu­ni­ties and na­tions, and un­der­scores the col­lab­o­ra­tive ef­fort needed to achieve a peace­ful and sus­tain­able fu­ture.

Wa­t­erAid will have a booth at World Wa­ter Week, and we warmly in­vite you to visit us. Fur­ther­more, Wa­t­erAid is ac­tively in­volved in sev­eral ses­sions dur­ing World Wa­ter Week. These ses­sions cover a range of cru­cial top­ics and pro­vide valu­able in­sights into wa­ter-re­lated chal­lenges and in­no­v­a­tive so­lu­tions:

Image: WaterAid/ Sianeh A. Kpukuyou

Life in Every Drop: Women's Stories of Water and Dignity 

We are de­lighted to in­vite you to the open­ing of the photo ex­hi­bi­tion, “Life in Every Drop: Women's Stories of Water and Dignity,” pre­sented by Wa­t­erAid. This unique ex­hi­bi­tion high­lights how ac­cess to clean wa­ter can trans­form lives, fo­cus­ing on Gifty, a hair­dresser in Bol­gatanga, Ghana.

Through pow­er­ful im­ages cap­tured by pho­tog­ra­pher Sianeh A. Kpukuyou and Gifty and her cus­tomers own words, we gain in­sight into the pro­found sig­nif­i­cance of wom­en's hair in var­i­ous cul­tures, par­tic­u­larly in Ghana. We fol­low her jour­ney from the chal­lenges of fetch­ing wa­ter to the pos­i­tive changes that clean wa­ter has brought to her life and busi­ness.

In an­other part of our ex­hi­bi­tion, we turn our fo­cus to the coastal re­gions of Bangladesh, where women are fac­ing a silent but se­vere con­se­quence of the wa­ter cri­sis: health prob­lems and hair loss. In ar­eas like Satkhira, where over half of the wa­ter sources are tainted with salt and pol­lu­tants, clean wa­ter has be­come a pre­cious re­source.

Join us for an evening ded­i­cated to cel­e­brat­ing wom­en’s dig­nity, em­pow­er­ment, and en­tre­pre­neur­ship.

Program:
5:30 PM: Wel­come re­cep­tion with re­fresh­ments
6:30 PM: In­tro­duc­tion to the ex­hi­bi­tion by Wa­t­erAid Swe­den’s CEO Anna Nils­dot­ter and Gen­der Ex­pert Mar­tina Nee.
6:45 – 7:00 PM: Ewurabena Yanyi-Ako­fur, Coun­try Di­rec­tor at Wa­t­erAid Ghana, gives us in­sight in wom­en’s sit­u­a­tion re­gard­ing wa­ter in Ghana.
8:30 PM: Clos­ing re­cep­tion

There will be snacks and non-al­co­holic bev­er­ages served.

If you have any ques­tions re­gard­ing the event, please con­tact Pro­ject Man­ager Karin Åker­man at Karin.ak­er­man@wa­t­eraid.se.

Date: 27 Au­gust, 2024
Time: 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Venue: Wetterling Gallery, Kungsträdgår­den 3, Stock­holm

We look forward to an inspiring evening with you!