HEALTH AND SANITATION
“We see plumbing, and the plumbing profession,
as being crucial to protecting and sustaining public
health and safety. Wherever you may be in the world,
quality plumbing skills and professional practices help
ensure safe water supply and sanitation which, today,
must be considered a fundamental human right.”
toilet and wash facilities for the children of Derbyshkinskiy
Orphanage.
“Our Community Plumbing Challenge programme is run
in different countries around the world,” Kearney says.
“We design and build toilets, washing facilities, new
water supplies and sanitation systems in collaboration
with different communities in need. All the while we are
promoting the plumbing profession and highlighting the
cool and exciting opportunities for WorldSkills Champions
to travel and share their skills to help make a difference
for people who need it most.”
“Everything was ready by end of the final day of
WorldSkills Kazan 2019, and then shipped across town
to Derbyshkinskiy, where a team — including a group of
local students and a teacher from the Kazan Construction
College — spent two days installing them in renovation
of the existing toilet and washrooms. In all, there were
around 20 people working on site at the orphanage over
the two days.”
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The following article looks
at the 45th WorldSkills
Competition, which
was recently held in
Kazan, Russia, courtesy
WorldSkills International.
Written by IAPMO Staff
Writer, Mike Flenniken, it is
the next in a regular series
of similar articles that run
in Plumbing Africa.
You can learn more about IAPMO at: http://iapmo.org/
Kearney stresses that IAPMO was thankful to many
different people and companies with whom it collaborated
to achieve the Plumbing and Heating Champions Project;
in particular, fellow WorldSkills global partners 3M,
Autodesk, and DHL. As a global partner of WorldSkills,
the project was very important to IAPMO, which sees
water, sanitation, and hygiene advocacy as central to
its mandate, which the developing relationship with
WorldSkills facilitates.
Learn more about IAPMO’s charitable arm, the IWSH
Foundation at: www.iapmo.org/iwsh
Submit your details and be the first to receive news,
updates and invitations for new international Community
Plumbing Challenge projects at: https://commplumbing.
org/interest/ PA
“We see plumbing, and the plumbing profession, as
being crucial to protecting and sustaining public health
and safety,” he says. “Wherever you may be in the world,
quality plumbing skills and professional practices help
ensure safe water supply and sanitation which, today,
must be considered a fundamental human right.
The International Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Foundation
(IWSH) is the charitable arm of The IAPMO Group and the
platform through which the organisation’s philanthropic
and community-based programmes are delivered
(including the Community Plumbing Challenge, which
was originally developed during IAPMO’s Trusteeship
of WorldSkills Foundation, 2013-15). These projects
have provided ongoing opportunities for WorldSkills
Champions to further their personal and professional skills
development pathways ever since.
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“IAPMO looks at the big picture, and we see the plumber
as akin to a healthcare professional. When these skills
and services are present in the community, then in turn
this can help protect and provide reliable water supply for
drinking, cooking and cleaning, provide toilets, provide the
ability to wash and encourage better hygiene, provide safe
drainage and wastewater disposal, and safeguard all the
things connected to good sanitation and health
and safety.”
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