Welcome to the Project WET International Blog

Dear Friends of the Project WET Foundation,

As Project WET continues to accomplish its mission of reaching children, educators and communities of the world with water education, we are also continuing to grow as an organization. Our educational materials are now used in more than 50 countries around the world with a constant demand for more and new materials.

• Between November 2007 and September 2009 the Project WET Foundation, with the support of USAID’s Africa Education Initiative, implemented a program reaching more than 30,000 schools, 175,000 teachers and five million students throughout 14 sub-Saharan African countries on the subjects of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).
• Success stories following the implementation of water sanitation and hygiene materials in these sub-Saharan African schools are many. Ugandan students have been quoted as asking,” Where is the soap?” after receiving WASH educational materials and one child remarked, “Since we received the materials and brought them home, our mother does not allow us to drink water that is not boiled.”
• Project WET will continue and expand work with students and teachers in Africa in 2010 through the USAID supported “Enhancing Education in Africa” project.

• Project WET has partnered with a United Nations agency and is working closely with international partners to adapt their WASH educational materials to five countries in Latin America and the Caribbean; specifically, Bolivia, Columbia, Mexico, Peru, and El Salvador. This is a multi-year project aimed at sustainably injecting WASH materials into the curriculum of urban and peri-urban schools in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Project WET recently launched a program in Shanghai, China in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Nestle Waters. The goal is to bring hands-on lessons about the importance of conserving water to Chinese children.
• Project WET will be leading the Children's Corner of the World Water Council's Water Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo. The Shanghai Expo runs from May to October 2010 and over 80 million people are expected to attend.

• Project WET has partnered with a local NGO, Green House Organization, to launch Project WET in Kabul and surrounding provinces in Afghanistan. The Green House Organization has conducted several successful trainings on hand-washing and boiling water with teachers in Kabul using Project WET’s methodology and by adapting the WET activities for Afghanistan.

This blog follows the international team from the Project WET Foundation as we move forward in the implementation of water education materials, capacity building trainings and development of new educational materials around the world.