Water Power Peace Presentation

NYCYP KIWANIS PROUDLY PRESENTS WATER POWER PEACE

Date: Tuesday, May 7th

Location: The Press Box, 932 2nd Avenue (btwn. 49th & 50th Sts.) - 2nd floor

Time: 7pm

This event will replace NYCYP Kiwanis meeting previously scheduled for May 21st.

On behalf of The Kiwanis Club of NYC Young Professionals, you are cordially invited to attend this informational session about Water Power Peace, where the founders of the organization, along with the Tanzanian teachers who directly benefited from this project, will provide us with an overview of the program. The Water Power Peace project matches schools and communities to bring water and resources to empower students and enhance opportunities. This presentation will include the importance of promoting girls education and cultural exchange.

Fostering Education through Friendship - A special presentation by teachers from the Sinai School, Babati Tanzania - the pilot Sister School project, visiting the United States for the first time.

Leah Samson Laizer - English, Geography, Swahili and History teacher, Sinai Primary School

Anna Lazaro Mbise - English, Swahili and History teacher, Sinai Primary School

Reverend Jasson Kahembe - Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania

Project: Water Power Peace

Through its work in municipal drinking water and oil and gas produced water treatment, Sabre has come to believe that access to clean water and energy are the most pressing issues facing the world.

Sabre also believes it can help. The company is using its technology for an exciting new initiative that combines science and learning in a global way. Sabre designed and built a playground capable of generating enough power to support a water pump, water tower and lights for the playground at the Woodland Hills Montessori School in East Greenbush, New York. The same system will be built at a sister school in Tanzania, which will provide a well, water source and electricity for 639 students that currently walk over a mile and a half to the nearest water source. The project grew out of a curriculum developed by the students, Sabre and the school to pair playgrounds around the world and provide lessons based in science and energy, as well as the cultural exchange between schools.

Sabre traveled to Tanzania to find a sister school for Woodland Hills. In partnership with the Livingstone Trust, a respected UK based foundation in Tanzania, the Sinai School will soon have drinking water, as well as water essential for sanitation, farming, and the construction of a residence for teachers. Please contact Sabre to learn more or go to the below: http:www.waterpowerpeace.org