AMREF and Euromoney: Providing clean water and sanitation for the people of Kechene, Ethiopia
Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC is a market leader in international financial and commodities publishing as well as event organisation. The company publishes close to 100 international specialist magazines in finance, mining and metals, energy, aviation, telecoms and law.
Background to the partnership
AMREF was chosen collectively by Euromoney staff as the charity they wanted to support. All made the commitment to raise donations from customers, clients, stakeholders and each other. During 2011 and 2012, Euromoney will be hosting a range of events, including awards dinners as well as other innovative fundraising activities.
"Euromoney is pleased to actively support this project, which will help to transform the living conditions of residents of Kechene." Gerard Strahan, Director, Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC
Update - Autumn 2011
Euromoney have so far raised over £122,000 - over halfway to the target in just nine months of fundraising! Staff from throughout the company have come together to organise many different activities to raise money for the project, including growing moustaches, holding raffles at awards dinnners, and even organising a 'slave auction'!
Individual employees have also taken up the challenge; for example, Joanne Smith has raised over £2,700 through a sponsored trek in the Simien Mountains, Morocco and Henry Hely-Hutchinson has raised over £800 through running the Dublin City Marathon.
PROJECT IN FOCUS: Improving access to clean water and sanitation, Kechene
Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world, ranked 170th out of 177 countries using the UN’s Human Development Index.
While images of rural poverty in the country are common, little attention is paid to the increasing number of people who live in urban slums.
Kechene district in Addis Ababa is one such urban slum and has high levels of poverty, poor housing and illiteracy. Just 15% have access to clean drinking water and significantly less people have access to sanitation meaning often extremely unhygienic and squalid living conditions. This leads to the spread of diseases such as cholera, typhoid and childhood diarrhoea – one of the leading causes of death in children. With good sanitation and consistent access to healthy drinking water these conditions are easily preventable.
This project will enable AMREF with Euromoney's support to begin water and sanitation work in district 5 of Kechene for the first time, bringing services to an area with a population of 35,000 people.