Eden Springs and People help People – One World join forces to deliver Tanzanian water projects

Eden Springs, Europe’s leading provider of drinking solutions for the workplace, has announced a charity partnership with the not-for-profit organisation People help People - One World. The agreement, which spans an initial three year period, will provide support for three drinking water projects in Tanzania, Africa.

(PRWEB UK) 8 August 2011

Eden Springs, Europe’s leading provider of office water coolers and workplace drinking solutions, has announced a charity partnership with the not-for-profit organisation People Help People – One World. The agreement - which spans an initial three year period - will provide support for three drinking water projects in Tanzania, Africa.

Funding from Eden Springs will secure the provision of drinking water supply systems in three secondary schools in the Uru district of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. As a result, approximately 1,000 school children and a further 7,500 residents in the surrounding communities will have access to a clean drinking water supply.

Headquartered in Switzerland, Eden Springs serves 15 European countries with water coolers and other drinking solutions. The company has chosen to partner with People help People - One World because of the organisation’s strong track record in delivering tangible projects and its structure, which sees up to 95 per cent of donations going directly to communities.

Chief executive officer of Eden Springs, Raanan Zilberman, comments: “We spent a lot of time looking for the right partner and it was important that they shared our values and ‘can do’ attitude. Obviously, selecting a charity that was involved in water projects was a prime attraction for us, but we also wanted to ensure our chosen partner would work efficiently and make a big difference to people’s lives through our support. People help People - One World has been established in Tanzania since 1985 and has helped to transform living conditions for hundreds of thousands of people across the country.”

While Eden Springs has pledged to donate at least €30,000 each year in support of the three projects, the water cooler company is also engaging with its employees in 15 European businesses to ensure that further funds are raised for the charity at a local level. In the longer term, Eden Springs and People help People hope to extend the project by providing clean drinking water supplies to four further schools in the Uru district.

Zilberman adds: “Our experience as shown that while charity donations are a nice gesture, many companies forget to assess the effectiveness of their giving. We’re very excited about this partnership and the impact it will have at a local level in Tanzania. Through regular updates from People help People we will be able to see how our support is making a real difference to people’s lives.”

An estimated 1.2 billion people in 60 countries worldwide have insufficient access to clean drinking water. The consequences for children are catastrophic: diarrhoea, unhealthy nutrition, insufficient body growth, and death. Every year, 1.5 million children die of diarrhoea before they turn five because of a lack of drinking water, unsuitable sanitary facilities and poor hygiene.

In Tanzania today only 55 per cent of people have access to clean drinking water and only 7 per cent of all children have access to secondary education*. In the Uru district, children and residents of the nearby villages currently have to resort to drinking dirty surface water or walking up to 10km (6 miles) in order to access clean drinking water. The partnership between Eden Springs and People help People will not only benefit the schoolchildren but also all of the communities around the schools who will have access to the water for both drinking and farming.

For more information on the Eden Springs and People help People - One World partnership please visit http://www.edensprings.com.

• Source: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/tanzania_statistics.html

Press Contact

For more information, images and if you would like to speak to a member of the Eden Springs team, please contact Catherine Scotcher or St John White at Prova PR on +44 (0) 1926 776900 or email catherines(ar)provapr(dot)co(dot)uk or stjohnw(at)provapr(dot)co(dot)uk.

Notes to Editors

About Eden Springs Europe
Eden Springs is Europe's leading provider of drinking water solutions for the workplace, offering a broad range of bottle-fed water coolers, plumbed-in water coolers and PET bottles. The company established its European presence in Poland in 1997 and in less than eight years, has become the leading brand for water coolers, with the widest geographical coverage in Europe’s water cooler industry. With a network of branches and water sources across 15 European countries, Eden Springs bottles and distributes more than 368 million litres of water annually and services more than 450,000 clients. Headquartered in Switzerland, Eden Springs has 2,000 employees in Europe.

http://www.edensprings.com

About People help People – One World
Dr. Werner Schuster, former Member of the German Parliament founded People help People – One World and started project work in December 1985 with the construction of a water pipe in Chekereni Weruweru. Since then the charity has helped people in the Kilimanjaro region (Tanzania) to improve their living conditions for a better future. The charity wants to help people to help themselves improving their personal situation. Education is the key element to achieve this goal. That’s why People help People – One World is supporting the idea to develop seven Secondary Schools in the Uru district, allowing more than 3,000 children to build their own foundation for a better future. People help People – One World’s development work is sponsored by The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and BENGO, the counseling office for private entities in development cooperation.

http://www.peoplehelppeople-oneworld.de

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