Toronto, Canada
Friday, June 22, 2018
Delta Hotel by Marriott
75 Lower Simcoe Street, Toronto
across from the Toronto Convention Centre
Registration - 7:00 am
Program - 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
“Water crisis is a Health crisis”
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WASH & Health - this year’s Summit theme - will be held at Marriott’s Delta Hotel in downtown Toronto. Located at 75 Lower Simcoe Street, the hotel is just steps away from the Toronto Convention Centre – site of this year’s RI Convention. In fact if it’s raining, you don’t even have to go outside to go from the hotel to the convention. Here’s a link to the hotel with more information: Delta Hotel - downtown Toronto
Your Summit Team is putting together an interesting program on themes of relevance for all Rotarians interested in WASH projects. The morning breakouts will follow two tracks: WASH & Disease Prevention and WASH & Healthcare Facilities.
Eminent speakers, including incoming
- Barry Rassin, RI President 2018-19
- Peter Lochery, former director of CARE’s Water Team and
- Silvia Gaya, UNICEF Senior Advisor Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
- Chris Dunston, The Hilton Foundation
- Rob Quick, Center for Disease Control (CDC)
- Mark Balla – a passionate Rotarian advocate for WASH will inspire us all.
In the afternoon we will have a series of round table discussions on a wide series of topics. We’ll be in touch soon so you can tell us what YOU want to talk about. Join your fellow WASH enthusiasts in small groups to discuss topics such as:
- Empowering the community
- WASH in health care facilities
- Doing a community assessment
- Training - essential to all projects
- Applying for a Global Grant
- Rotarians as advocates
- Profitable sanitation - understanding the cycle
- Protecting our wetlands
- WASH in schools
- Menstrual hygiene management
- Planning a major WASH program
- Finding the right partner/project
- Accessing expertise
- Blindness prevention
Registration will open early at 7.00 am. Come and join us for coffee and croissants! The official program gets underway at 8.30 am and winds up at 5.00 pm. After that we’ll open the cash bar so you can enjoy discussing the day’s events with our sponsors and fellow registrants.
Understand the issues in bringing water to Health Facilities where medical staff lack clean water for maternity and child wards. Learn how Rotarians are taking the lead in eradicating water-borne disease such as Guinea worm, the former scourge of Ghana and other African countries.Here's what we have planned:
- Multiple breakout sessions focusing on water in health care facilities and water and disease prevention.
- Breakout speaker Loune Viaud, Partners in Health, Haiti
- Two opportunities to participate in round-table discussions with topics such as technology/life cycle costing, finding the right project, and monitoring & evaluation
- Networking opportunities with our sponsors and other passionate Rotarians
In addition, keynote speakers will share their personal insights into the importance of water and health facilities.
