Akvo Scores at Beach Volleyball to Help Burco and Ethiopia

[Jacaylbaro]

A marketing industry fundraising tournament has today committed €17,239 of funding to two Akvo water and sanitation projects. The projects are being showcased as a great example of project and fund matching at Stockholm World Water Week, the world’s most important annual conference of water and sanitation development experts.

 

The organisers of the TAPPS Beach Volleyball Tournament have chosen two Akvo projects to fund with the proceeds of its upcoming weekend event, to be held on 23 August.

 

Govert van Eerde, the tournament organiser and himself a successful Dutch internet businessman, chose to channel funds into Akvo projects because it was possible to assign the funds to specific projects.

 

“I love the Akvo system – it’s easy to follow and easy to identify projects you would like to fund,” he explained.

 

The tournament is funding this €12,539 project in Ethiopia, to provide six small villages with 35 rainwater harvesting systems, 35 latrines, and to educate children and women about water and sanitation. The local field partner is ERHA and the support partner is the RAIN Foundation.

 

It is also contributing €4700 to this €13,500 project to build latrines for a community of 2500 people living in a refugee camp in Burao, Somaliland. This provides essential funds to unlock a grant of €8,800 from Aqua for All.

 

Now in its ninth year, the TAPPS Beach Volleyball Tournament is the Netherlands’ biggest outdoor online media event. It brings together teams from across the Dutch internet media industry to raise money to provide clean water and proper sanitation to those who have none. This year’s tournament will be held on the Dutch coast on 23 August 2008. More than 1,000 online media professionals will descend on the picturesque beachclub location of ‘Het Stranhuis’, in Wijk aan Zee.

 

They will represent over 80 companies, with each team paying 250 Euros to enter. The event is backed with finance from TAPPS and the event is produced by Live Solutions Events B.V.

 

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[Mr-Peace]

So most of the money is going to ethiopian villages? why should that be of our concern?

[Jacaylbaro]

It is the little that is going to the country that concerns ,,,,,