UPDATED - NEW PRICING! Thanks to an amazing result with our sponsors we are able to offer greatly reduced pricing for WWS15. (If you registered at an earlier higher rate we will be issuing a refund.)
- Registration is now just $75 USD and includes a year's membership in WASH RAG.
- Rotaractor registration is just $25 and includes a year's membership in WASH RAG.
- Virtual Attendance - Plenary Sessions and Breakouts - $25 (Broadcast live - see time chart below)
For inquiries about your registration or the event, please email: info@wasrag.org
The theme, "It all starts with WASH" underlines the critical importance of water, sanitation, and hygiene to community health, economic growth, food security, and the alleviation of poverty. Join us in Melbourne!
Our keynote speaker is Mark Balla, the Toilet Warrior.
Mark has seen the lives of hundreds of thousands of school students, their families and their communities, changed for the better thanks to the provision of WASH infrastructure and education. In 2017 he was inducted into the World Toilet Organization Hall of Fame by his friend and mentor Mr. Toilet himself. Singaporean Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organization.
Mark is a passionate public speaker, especially when it comes to WASH in Schools and Behavior Change in the world of WASH. In his nine years as a Rotarian, he has spoken at seventeen District Conferences in Australia, the USA, and India, at Ravi Ravindran's Presidential Summit on WASH & Literacy, and at over 100 Rotary Clubs. He delivered a TED talk, and presented at World Water Summits in Sao Paulo, Toronto and Hamburg.
Mark, a member of the Rotary Club of Box Hill Central in District 9810 in Australia, was a member of the WASH-RAG board for six years and is a member of the Rotary Foundation Cadre of Technical Advisors.
WWS15 Program Schedule
Friday, May 26, 2023 Melbourne
REFER TO INTERNATIONAL TIME CHART BELOW
7:00a - 8:30a
REGISTRATION / COFFEE / NETWORKING
REGISTRATION / COFFEE / NETWORKING
8:30a - 8:40a
WELCOME
WELCOME
8:40a - 9:40a
PLENARY #1
PLENARY #1
Ann Thomas, UNICEF, Senior Advisor in Sanitation and Hygiene
9:40a - 10:10a
BREAK / NETWORKING
BREAK / NETWORKING
10:10a - 11:45a
BREAKOUTS
BREAKOUTS
- Track #1 WASH, Hygiene & MHM-RAG
- Track #2 WASH & Healthcare Facilities
- Track #3 WASH in Schools
11:45a - 1:00p
LUNCH / MEET OUR SPONSORS / NETWORKING
LUNCH / MEET OUR SPONSORS / NETWORKING
- Other Rotary Action Groups
- Cadre
- Sponsors
1:00p - 2:00p
PLENARY #2
Barry Rassin, The Rotary Foundation Chair-elect & Past Rotary International President.
Rotary Overcomes All Challenges to Make Transformational Change
PLENARY #2
Barry Rassin, The Rotary Foundation Chair-elect & Past Rotary International President.
Rotary Overcomes All Challenges to Make Transformational Change
2:00p - 2:30p
BREAK / NETWORKING
BREAK / NETWORKING
2:30p - 3:55p
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
- Track #4 WASH & Community Development
- Track #5 CADRES as a resource for Project and Global Grant Planning
4:05p - 4:45p
CLOSING PLENARY
Mark Balla, Rotarian and Author, A Journey to the Toilet
CLOSING PLENARY
Mark Balla, Rotarian and Author, A Journey to the Toilet
5:00p - 6:00p
RECEPTION / SPONSORS / NETWORKING
RECEPTION / SPONSORS / NETWORKING
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