SING FOR WATER was
created to raise money for Water Projects through singing. So far
the project has raised £250,000 for WaterAid projects in Africa
and India. This year's UK events have raised over £47,000.
On September 16th at
2pm the sixth mass SING FOR WATER concert took place as part
of the Thames Festival with a record 800 singers. Sponsorship money
is still coming in but on the day an amazing £2900 was collected
in the buckets.
Choirs and festivals around the UK and in France have also
organsied their own local SING FOR WATER events. These play a vital
role in raising funds to help those so depsarately in need to clean
safe water..
SING FOR WATER Was
recently awarded a President's Award by WaterAid for outstanding
voluntary contriubution.
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SING FOR
WATER events around the UK
Please keep me posted
about local Sing for Water events by emailing
romaine@helenchadwick.com and I will
put them on this site.
SING FOR WATER in Bangor
organized by Pauline Down has raised over £3000!
SING
FOR WATER is starting up in Germany!
The Kammerchor Alumni e.V.led Werner Gloeggler and organised by
Vera Duden is hosting it on March 8th .
www.kammerchor-alumni.de
SING FOR WATER SWANSEA
raised around £2,400.
The event was organised by Kate Davies, Stuart Jones and Margot
Morgan.
There were 45 singers in the choir and other local acts on the night
were Scarabella, Cowin' Lush, Esyllt Harker, Women in Jazz, John
Billsborough and Nigel Jenkins. The event was hosted by the Dylan
Thomas Centre.
Kate writes "We exceeded all expectations in terms of size
of the audience, money raised and the excellent quality of all acts."
LEICESTER
SING FOR WATER takes place on Sunday June
8th as part of a local council-run festival called the Riverside
Festival. . Songs will include past hoits from London events, For
details contact kimburleyjones@zoom.co.uk
PAULINE DOWN'S CHOIR had a wonderful
candlelit singing session with David Harrison on 15th December for
Sing for Water.
They took £780 for the session. Once the gift aided amount
has been added that will come to £907.50. So if you add the
£250 that they bid for the event in the auction in the summer
camp; this event has raised £1,157.50!
VOICE CAMP rasied
over £5000 this year!
Chris Samuel reports
that Gasworks H20
BRISTOL SING FOR WATER led by Dee Jarlett,Ali Orbaum and Chris
Samuel of Bristol's Gasworks Choir with Naked Voices, went really
well. The concert raised over £3,000 and that's without all
the sponsorship money from the singers themselves. Chris also ran
a Children's Sing for Water in Bradford on Avon and collected another
£329.
SING FOR WATER
WHITSABLE organized
by Stephanie Brunton with the Whitstable
Whistlefish and Friends
raised £215.00.
SING AND SWIM FOR
WATER organized by Rowena Whitehead in the ipen air pool in
Cambridge raised £1300.
The West Wiltshire
Water Wailers Sing for Water
19th September St Margaret's Hall, Bradford on Avon 6.30-8.00pm
Tickets £2.00 Join a combined choir of primary school children
from around Bradford on Avon for the only Children Sing for Water
performance outside of London.
SING FOR WATER OXFORD
organized by Liz Hodgson raised £993
for WaterAid on 23rd March. The groups taking part were the Seagreen
Singers ( Oxford's socialist choir ), the Oxford Community Choir,
the Oxford Gospel Choir and Joined-up Singing.
If you would like help
by organsing your own local event please email Gemma Harris at WaterAid
singforwater@wateraid.org
who can help with sponsorship forms and information on the project
in Ghana SING FOR WATER supports.
Seeing clean water
change lives
In October 2005 Helen Chadwick and Pauline
Down visited the Ghanaian WaterAid project SING FOR WATER supports.
We visited a village with a new bore hole ( above) and the village
of Najore where most people had suffered from Guinea Worm and where
there was no safe water to drink.
Since our visit a new bore hole has been built in Najore, see below.
Many more villages and thousands more people in the area
need clean safe water.
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Here is a message from
Rockson who is working in the villages we are supporting in Ghana
BELATED HAPPY NEW YEAR,
Dear Colleagues in the business of working towards improving the
very lives of the very poor around the world through support to
provision of safe water. It's out of great joy to inform you that
NAJORE, a the guinea worm endemic community which you visited in
Volta Region in Ghana under APDO's project has wet borehole drilled
for them which installation in in progress. GOD bless you all for
your great efforts towards humanity
REGARDS from all APDO staff!!!!!!! ROCKSON DUTENYA
and one from Modoc,
the inspirational man who runs APDO, the local NGO running the projects
Hi My Sister,
I am with great joy to announce to you that the women of Najore
with your contribution would not have to walk 4km for only 35litres
of disease infected water but now they need to walk thirty metres
away from the community for a very clean water.
I and the country Rep of Water Aid witness the event with much joy
where women of Najore could not hide their happiness and joy for
what has happen to their commnity.
I send you pictures of the drilling process.
Send my greetings to all who dear to you I wish all MERRY CHRISTMASS
AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
keep fit
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SING
FOR WATER AUSTRALIA
Following three concerts in London, Associate Director of Thames
Festival, Catherine Reiser relocated to Australia where she founded
Sing for Water Australia. The first night time version was co-produced
by Riverfestival for Brisbane, followed by a Sing for Water concert
in Melbourne as part of The Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival.
Riverfestival in Brisbane continues to create Sing for Water as
an annual event as Catherine continues plans for a Sing for Water
in Sydney and other cities. Sing for Water Australia has raised
over 55,000 Australia dollars which has been funding WaterAid projects
in East Timor and Papua New Guinea.
LINKS
Sing for Water www.singforwater.com
Thames Festival www.thamesfestival.org
Sing for Water Australia
www.singforwateraustralia.com
www.riverfestival.com.au
WaterAid www.wateraid.org
To donate online visit
www.justgiving.com/singforwater2007
Photos: Simon Richardson,
Alex Macro, and Roger Giddings
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