Project Name

Arab Middle East Office - Ramallah

"I don't want to get thirsty"

Duration
6 months, May-October 2005

Corporation
The project is implemented in partnership with Heinrich BÖll Foundation (HBF).

Description
The project will identify 18 potential young leaders (18-24 years) from the region including Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan.
The project aims to empower those young leaders in the "Right to Water". This initiative will start with training. The General guidelines for the training will be covering the evaluation criteria of the UN concept of water as a Human Right.

Those leaders will be the spark for a regional movement for the protection and implementation of "Right to Water". This core group will go back to their universities, communities and groups to spread the concept using different lobbying and campaigning activities.

One of the projects outputs will be a youth lead initiative to present project outcomes to be used as awareness tools: film making, plays, publications, contests and paintings.

In September, during Clean Up the World campaign, the leaders coming from Jordan with an open invitation to other regional participants to come and communicate those ideas for the public during the campaign's days.