WAFA GlobalGiving Report Feb 2023
Since 2008, WAFA Awards has been committed to the UN Global Compact corporate responsibility initiative and its principles of clean water, no hunger, sustainability, and the environment. WAFA supports 9 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
WAFA searches and finds ‘silent heroes’/sustainability pioneers worldwide, or they found us. We encourage everyone to nominate their favorite projects!
下一个忠诚奖将于4月2日庆祝7, 2023. The selection process is in full swing: after evaluating all 152 applications, from 52 countries, 14 silent heroes have been short-listed. From this short-list, an independent jury has nominated three or four finalists in each category: Water, Air, Food and Youth Climate. The finalists will now be introduced to public voting where everyone can participate. The public voting is scheduled to start on March 16 and will decide who wins the WAFA Awards 2023.
你的捐款,我们可以选择赢家,胃肠道ve them exposure, and promote them on social media. This helps them attract resources to expand and replicate their projects to other communities with similar challenges: access to clean water, clean air and nutritious food in a healthy climate. Any help, dear donors, is greatly
WAFA’s mission is made possible by your support.
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WAFA Team!
WAFA (Water Air Food Awards) validates, awards, and publicizes low tech, high impact sustainability breakthroughs from around the world. Mazhapolima from India, WAFA’s 2018 Water Awardee, attended the first United Nations Water Summit in February 2019 organized by Waterlex, UN human rights organization operating at the World Meteorological Organisation, Geneva. Waterlex organized the summit to support the Sustainable Development Goal of Water Security.
With the theme of “No One Leaving Behind”, the unique event highlighted little known sustainability achievements in rural Asia, Africa, Latin America and Island Nations. Jos Raphael, program director of Mazhapolima said, ”I was lucky to be the only presenter in this first UN Summit to present two themes on water security (quantity) and water quality. The first presentation was on ‘Nature Based Local Water Security Solutions befitting Developing Countries'. And the second was on “Fluoride Mitigation from Water Wells through Nature-Based Local Water Security Solutions for Developing Countries.
第一个表示关注充电from Roof Rainwater Harvesting (“Mazhapolima”) in Thrissur District, Kerala State, India. The second focussed on an exploratory project to mitigate fluoride from water resources, i.e. dug wells and tube wells.
WAFA’s financial support enabled Mazhapolima to present these two initiatives to global development decision-makers. In his email Jos said, “I express my sincere thanks to WAFA in bringing up the successful model to the World focus for learning from each other.”
WAFA thanks all you donors for your generous contribution of time and resources. You make our work possible. We also appreciate your continuing support for future awards, including the2020 Youth Climate Award!
Water Air Food Awards (WAFA) has a decade long track-record in identifying sustainability entrepreneurs at the bottom of the pyramid and providing them visibility in their own communities and internationally. It is one of the world’s recognised channels for providing visibility to experience-driven innovation in poor communities – “silent heroes”.
Each year WAFA undertakes a rigorous review and selection process carried out by an international network of volunteer sustainability-experts as well as sponsored events and media campaigns. Over the years, WAFA has demonstrated a consistent ability to focus on change agents in the world’s poorest communities, building up a substantial knowledge and contact base that is of increasing interest to potential commercial and sustainability-oriented funding sources looking for cost-efficiency, social buy-in and scalability.
WAFA’s Mission is to support nature-based, locally developed sustainable solutions to the global problems in the light of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. More specifically
The number of applications has increased dramatically since the very establishment of WAFA. Total number of applicationst till date are 401. The number of applications increased from 10 in 2010 to 171 in 2017-18.
Its interesting to note that most of these applications are from developing countries. Most of the innovation is happening in the developing countries where the need is greater than the developed world. One of the main reason is limited resources adn rising population. WAFA address 9 sustainable development goals, by identifying, nominating and exposing the best solutions that are low tech and high impact. Their solutions are innovative, proven, sustainable, replicable, and aligns with the local knowledge that is part of the tradition in every culture. The local knowledge of the poeple--"citizen science" is important to tap if we want to save our only planet Earth.
WAFA is adding a new feature for more robust selection process as well as to develop a sustainable income generations strategy to conitnue their good work.
WAFA wishes to strengthen its core role of providing exposure to these sustainability entrepreneurs and to develop a new dimension as a venue for a meeting of minds to ground-truth concepts (empirical evidence) in the fields of water, air and food. This includes
In order to transform WAFA to the next level also, new dimensions will be added that will allow innovators in the water, air, food space and potential investors to enter into a direct dialogue with these silent heroes who are experts in their communities and in the application of accessible nature-based technologies. A media and communication platform will be set up for the community entrepreneurs, including assistance for story-telling and production. This will complement the data-driven coverage provided by the database.
It is expected that the ability for accessing both a broad range of community entrepreneurs and the possibility for a direct dialogue with a segment that is not normally accessible will be of great interest to corporate CSR, sustainability and impact investors and – importantly – innovators and companies wishing to form partnerships in this space.
前进的道路
The core revenue stream will come from a membership platform, leveraging network among partners in business associations and sustainability platforms. Other revenue streams will be from live and networking events. Members will gain from
If paid members, specially corporate members are attracted the membership and inclined to learn more about the sustainable solutions/ knowledge that is simple and profound.
Increased members will help grow the word of mouth and spread the knowledge through networking,
The underlying network of community entrepreneurs will be scaled from the present 400 to an additional 500-1000/year to around 3500 over 3 years. These entrepreneurs will gain:
We wish to share a few success stories of our Winners.
Greening The Desert Project-Jordan
Purpose of the project: provide nature-based solutions to support agriculture in the Jordan River Valley, beset by drought, salinity, deforestation, and desertification. Greening the Desert runs entirely on solar power and everything is recycled.
What has been achieved:
The project started in 2008, and the association working on it was created in 2011. Jordan is hot and arid, so the systems applied help with water conservation. At the same time, they save money by not relying on chemicals and, instead, utilizing natural process. While chemicals seem beneficial at the offset, they ultimately kill the soil and destroy fertility.
Providing education about permaculture’s principles and food production with using fewer resources.
Introduction of forestry techniques, but also adopted local food processing and animal husbandry techniques.
The food forest with stone walls and earth-backed swales moves through the landscape to rabbit and chicken houses, which combine manures in a system that creates a cubic meter of compost every five weeks.
Reviving the Farmers’ Life Project in India
What has been achieved:
o The rivers’ flow has increased from four months to eight months so entire waterlogged land has been brought under cultivation
o 135 rivers and tributaries have been revived by deepening, widening and desilting of 250 km of river bed.
o This has led to rechargement of 2128 wells.
o 9835 acres is under the micro irrigation
o 3934 farmers have started to use drip and sprinkler irrigation systems
Water Kiosk in Kenya
Only one-third of Kenyans have ready access to safe, affordable drinking water. In many communities, schoolchildren have to walk long distances to obtain safe water for their families before they go to school. This onerous task often leads them to miss class and drop out of school.
What has been achieved:
WAFA has many more sucessful stories of its winners and we wish to continue to bring them to you so that the winners and nominee can be further exposed and their greater good can be shared.
Fish Farm Project-Nigeria
There are hundreds of stories of these silent heroes that is in the data base of WAFA and we want to expose it and bring this to the world. In order to do that we need to develop a systematic library with catalogue of the projects as that will help corporate, individuals, and philanthropists identify their favorite project and support them. We are hopeful you enjoyed these winner stories, if you are moved by what WAFA has been doing with the help of thousands of volunteer hour, then please come forward and make a generous donation and help us share the knowledge of our winners and applicants with the world.
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Everyone needs to know the work of Silent Heroes.
Production of the first episode of our video series titled Silent Heroes is expected to be ready the first week of October.
We are planning a gala event for the premier.
Our mission with Silent Heroes
There are a lot of people who do a lot of innovation to help local communities. But a lot of times, these people do not receive any recognition. They’re the silent heroes. We are determined that it would be really great to acknowledge them, to give them some assistance so that they can have the encouragement.
When you’re out there in a tiny little village, and you’re doing some really good work, but there’s nobody to encourage you. And a lot of times, people just lose out on the inspiration. So it’s really to inspire the good in people. And that was the idea behind the WAFA Awards and the Silent Heroes video series.
Thank you for your support, we never underestimate the power of acknowledgement.
Dear Wafa friends and supporters,
Many thanks for your efforts and continuous support
The time has come yet again to find our Silent Heroes - those who make a real difference in this world.
As most of you are aware WAF Awards acknowledges the hard work and braveness of those who brave the elements daily to cover basic human needs for all.
为了前ss on with our work we need your help and support in finding all silent heroes who are carrying out an exceptional practices within water, air and/or food.
Follow and share our campaign on social media (see link below) and let's celebrate those silent heroes who don't expect recognition - but fully deserve it!
You have the power to give a voice to the silent heroes!
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