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Sponsorship
International Children's Awareness Canada
January 31, 2007
This past fall, the UTE decided to sponsor a member and a student to accompany
the International Children’s Awareness (ICA) Canada team to Cameroon.
We are pleased to announce that the sponsored member is Roxanne
Lodge of Winnipeg, MB. Roxanne was in Africa a few years ago as a tourist
and saw first hand the need for water projects, such as the ICA water projects
in Cameroon. “In a way, I believe that while I am there I am
representing not only our union, but also the Winnipeg Tax Centre (WTC),
and even Canada. I would like to help demonstrate that we care what
happens in other parts of the world.”
The first student recipient to accompany Captain Smith is Rachel
Gardiner of Goulds, NL. Rachel was first introduced to World Water Day through
the Girl Guides as a young child. Over the years she tried to do
her part in conserving water whenever she could. In her essay, she
notes “The majority of residents of these nations (industrialized
countries such as Canada), who used upwards of 150 litres of water daily,
are appalled when there are short term water bans and complain if they
are unable to water their lawn “when necessary” during the
summer. All of this occurs while, according to the UN, the average
African must live using only 20 litres of water a day and approximately
6000 children die every day from lack of clean water or poor hygiene.”
We would like to congratulate the first student and member to receive
sponsorship to accompany Captain Smith and the ICA team and we wish them
good luck on this journey.
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