Second Place Winner $300

Project Binita Wins.

This video showcases kids learning about hand washing through song. Judges noted the cuteness of the video and balanced editing. It was selected as the cutest video with a simple message.

Third Place Winner $150

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This short video is filled with joy, sharing, and learning. WASH-RAG Membership Satisfaction Chair Rajiv Sharma stated this was his favourite video from this specific series of entries.

Photography Category

First Place Winner $300

Karen Kankkunen photo:  Woman washing children in a tub. No information is needed - the photo says it all.

Second Place Winner $150

Tamika Doubell: Child washing in stream.

Third Place Winner $75

IMG-20220409-WA001:  storytelling, sense of place.

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The Water Sanitation and Hygiene Rotary Action Group's

Annual General Meeting met virtually on July 23, 2022.

"Good Morning, Good Evening, Good Wherever you are!"

The WASH-RAG Board, Operations Team, Ambassadors, and WASH-RAG members joined the virtual Annual General Meeting, logging in from 3 am in Hawaii USA to 4 pm in Turkey!

Simultaneously members virtually met from Rwanda, Haiti, Australia, Canada, United States of America, Luxembourg, Ghana, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, and many more countries!

WASH-RAG Members

September 10, 2022

All active members are invited to vote on the new WASH Rotary Action Group by-laws, with some proposed amendments. Check your email for a special Zoom link.

Only 2022 WASH-RAG Members received the link. If you didn't get it, double check your membership didn't expire. Click below to log in and access it.

Everything - from education, to disease prevention, to peace - starts with WASH! Join us to be inspired and learn about all things WASH!

Armed conflicts continue over water sharing among Aral Sea Basin Countries, according to The New York Times. April 30, 2021:

Over 40 Dead in Tajik-Kyrgyz Border Clash as Death Toll Rises

Through Global Grants provided by The Rotary Foundation, two workshops convened in Delft, Netherlands in 2014 and 2016 for stakeholders from the basin countries. The purpose was to prepare participants for constructive dialogue over regional trans-boundary water issues.

In addition, commencing in 2018, The Rotary Foundation has provided eighteen Master’s Degree level scholarships for the Joint Program for Water Cooperation and Diplomacy (WCD), which develops technical and diplomatic skills for water professionals. As they complete their degree work, the students build personal relationships, studying and working together on water-related projects. The program is hosted by the University for Peace in Costa Rica, IHE Delft in the Netherlands and Oregon State University in the USA, and with support from local Rotarians.

Past Rotary International Director and past WASH-RAG Board member Peter Kyle has followed these Rotary initiatives from the beginning. Peter is former legal counsel for the World Bank, and in that capacity travelled to the Central Asia region on many occasions. He met with the Oregon State University professors directing the WCD program and has spent time in Oregon with the 1^st cohort of WCD scholars sponsored by Rotary.  Peter observes:

"I am very impressed by these far-sighted and strategically important initiatives. What a powerful example of the potential for Rotary to play a catalytic role on the world stage."

If you'd like to learn more about these Rotary actions of the last ten years and the eighteen courageous scholars who benefited from these Rotary scholarships, please click the orange button for a copy of the full-length WASH-RAG Article.

Story submitted by Steve Brown [email protected] and Pam Russell [email protected] of the West Palm Rotary Club. Edited for content and length. For the full unedited article please click the button.