Smart Water for Green Schools

YOOXYGEN’s partnership with Green Cross International (GCI), will focus on promoting GCI’s new project “Smart Water for Green Schools,” the new program of the environmental non-governmental organization (NGO). The project seeks to establish rainwater harvesting systems, ecological sanitation facilities and environmental awareness in schools situated in trans-boundary river basins. The first schools started the pilot phase in February 2010 in Ghana with the aim of reaching 1,987 school children and 67 teachers in five communities. Over the next 24 months, the project seeks to expand to 40 schools in 4 river basins.

"One of the building blocks of every society is consistent access to clean drinking water. The GCI ‘Smart Water for Green Schools’ project empowers schools to teach students about the importance of a safe water supply and basic hygiene. These lessons give children the tools they need to become agents of change within their families and their communities."

Leonardo Di Caprio
Member & Actor
Global Green Board

"We need to recognize that we are the guests not the masters of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself."

Mikhail Gorbachev
Founding President
Global Green Board