WASH Central and Eastern Europe, West and Central Asia

		WSSCC National coordinator is Anna Tsvietkova Water and Sanitation Programme Coordinator National Environmental NGO MAMA - 86 4 Yangel Academician Str., apt.126, Kyiv 03057, Ukraine + 38 044 456 1338 + 38 044 453 4796 (fax) atsvet@mama-86.org.ua www.mama-86.org.ua

List of participants of WASH activities in Ukraine:

All-Ukrainian environmental NGO MAMA-86 launched WASH campaign in 2003. 10 regional branches of MAMA-86 in:

city Artemivsk Donetska oblast;
city Feodosia AR Crimea;
city Mykolajv;
city Nizhyn Chernigiv oblast;
city Nova Kahovka Khersonska oblast;
city Odesa;
city Poltava;
city Sevastopol AR Crimea;
city Tatarbunary Odeska oblast;
city Yaremche;

Ukrainian Water Associations;

Water Information Center, Kiev;

LTD Slobozhans’kii soap maker, Kharkiv.

WASH Coalition Activities in International Year of Sanitation, 2008

World Water Day – Sanitation and Hygiene Week info actions
Actions for Water Day and Sanitation Week began on 15 March and included wide range of measures that were organized by regional branches of MAMA-86 and regional partners. Among these actions were: seminars, lectures, round tables and participation in the II AQUA Ukraine Donetsk - 2008 exhibition; lessons, quizzes and competitions at schools, pictures and essays competitions among school and kindergarten children, cleaning up actions of brooks, sources of drinking water, river banks and seacoast; expeditions along the channels and rivers banks, press-club for media and meetings with local citizens and authorities with a purpose of discussion water and sanitation problems.

At the end of March the analysis of local decentralized sources of drinking water supply on nitrates content has begun in 10 regions of Ukraine with the involvement of students and pupils. MAMA-86 announced about the journalist competition Adequate Sanitation - for every Ukrainian citizen!

The Web site detail report on Water day actions in Kyiv and regions is available http://mama-86.org.ua/pr/pr36.htm .

World Toilet Day 2008
On November, 19, 2008 Ukrainian National Environmental NGO MAMA-86 together with Water Information Center, Kiev, conducted an information actions devoted to the World Toilet Day.

Several actions took place on this day in Water Information Center in Kiev, such as:

opening of new stand display;
demonstration of the film devoted to the International Year of Sanitation;
action WASH to promote Hygiene and hand washing;
awarding of winners of the journalist competition Adequate sanitation for every citizen of Ukraine!

New stand display in the Water Information Center tells about access to sanitation and sanitation problems in the whole world and Ukraine and ways of solving them. It includes 8 posters, devoted to 6 themes:

Millennium Development Goals (MDG) on water and sanitation;

Ukraine: access to the sanitary conditions and MDG;

Modern classification of sanitary practices;

Technical solutions for waste waters and human excreta management;

Ecosanitation – ecologically friendly, efficient and safe;

Alternative sanitation technologies in Ukraine.

Within the framework of actions, devoted the International Year of Sanitation MAMA-86 with the financial support of WSSCC produced a short film. The first film show took place for the winners of journalist competition and participants of ecosan projects. Well known in Ukraine for his ecological films producer Volodymyr Kuznetsov shot the film. 5 minutes social film tells about connection between problems with water and sanitation in Ukraine, promotion of elementary rules of hygiene for healthy life and environment.

Action WASH began in the “Water Information Center” from the very morning. It was directed on propaganda among children-visitors of the Center, of simplest and effective precautionary hygienic measures – hand washing with soap. Members of MAMA-86 told children about importance of observance of rules of the personal hygiene, about actions within the framework of Global Handwashing Day and World Toilet Day.

Every child which visited Water Center that day was given a piece of soap as a gift with WASH and Global Handwashing Day logos. Nearly 500 pieces of soap were distributed among children on this day in the frame of action WASH.

This day culmination was solemn proclamation of results of journalist competition: Adequate sanitation for citizen of Ukraine! conducted by NGO MAMA-86 from March, 20 to October, 30, 2008 within the framework of measures to the International Year of Sanitation.

18 journalists have sent 36 articles which were published in 21 newspapers in Ukraine during the competition.

For the evaluation of competitive works a jury was created that consisted of: Alla Malienko - secretary of Union of Journalists, Kyiv, Oleksandr Popov - director of Water Information Center” Kyiv, Valentin Kobzar - chief of department of Kyiv Vodokanal, Anna Golubovska-Onisimova - President NGO Mama-86, Olena Zubko - coordinator of project Ekotelefon NGO Mama-86 and Anna Tsvietkova – WSSCC National Coordinator in Ukraine and coordinator of MAMA-86 program “Water and Sanitation.

First place was not awarded. A jury acknowledged winners in two nominations: “sanitation” and “drinking water”. Diplomas of winners of competition for the 2nd place in nomination «sanitation» were awarded to 3 journalists: Olexander Galyas and Nataliya Kravchuk for the article How to get out dry from a “wet business”, newspaper Komsomol’skaya Pravda, 24-30 October 2008; Lana Borisova for the article How to go to Sir Edzya?, newspaper Ukraine today, 30 October 2008; Nina Korol’ for the article Big problem of small need, newspaper Kolo, 11 September 2008.

Diplomas of winners of competition for the 2nd place in nomination «drinking water» were awarded to: Oleg Lystopad for the article Phenomena of “blue” babies published in a newspaper Selyans’ka Pravda, 15 August 2008; Inna Borisova for the article What water to drink – spring or mineral published in a newspaper Democratic Ukraine, 8 August 2008.

In addition, Mama-86 awarded Larysa Novokhizhnu (a pseudonym is Lidiya Vinogradova) and Iryna Ganina with special diplomas for active participation in the competition and big contribution in raising public awareness on local ecological problems.

Actions devoted to the World Toilet Day and International Year of Sanitation NGO MAMA-86 held together with Water Information Center, Kiev with the support of WSSCC, GWP CEE, EcoSanRes programme and SIDA.

NGO MAMA-86 expresses its sincere gratitude to all participants of educational actions in the framework of the World Toilet Day and International Year of Sanitation with especial tanks to Water Information Center, Kyiv and LTD Slobozhans’kii soap maker, Kharkiv.