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Jan Marcinek
Filmmaker, writer and student again (Czech Republic)

I am deaf and my destiny is to write what I see, because I can not hear. I come from Prague (City of writer Franz Kafka) I studied Film Academy of Miroslav Ondricek in Pisek (Screenwriting and Directing).

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Blog Action Day 2010

Published 06th October 2010 - 1 comments - 3313 views -

I like this project. And I must share with this. Maybe you know it. But, for sure. smile

 

Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking a global discussion and driving collective action.

 

Topic for this year is a WATER. On this platform is many articles about this big problem. Even with the competition which was made on the biggest advertising festival in Cannes.

Why water and sanitation?

  • Currently one in eight of the world's population does not have access to safe, clean drinking water.
  • Almost half the world's population (2.6 billion people) lack any form of sanitation, even a simple latrine or toilet.
  • This silent crisis kills 4,000 children every single day - more than HIV/Aids, malaria and TB combined, and is largely preventable.
  • Water and sanitation are the essential foundations to help people out of poverty – without these basic services they will continue to be trapped in a cycle of poor health, limited education and little opportunity to work themself out of it.
  • In 2000, global leaders met at the UN Millennium Summit in New York to sign up for the biggest global agreement in history on how to fight world poverty. 189 nations signed up to eight specific goals with a fifteen year plan; these are known as the Millennium Development Goals.
  • This year is a landmark year as heads of state will meet at the UN in September to assess progress so far, and highlight/recommend what needs to be done in the next five years to achieve the MDGs.
  • At current rates of progress the targets for water in Sub-Saharan Africa won’t be reached until 2032, almost twenty years late. Progress on sanitation is much worse: at current rates, the modest target of 75% of people with basic sanitary facilities will not be reached until a staggering 2206.

Just register your blog. write post about water and be part of this project. ,)


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  • Andrea Arzaba on 06th October 2010:

    Let’s ALL participate as GLOBAL TH!INKERS smile


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