11 WASH – Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene for All (2002-cont.)

Earth Forever being both national and regional focal point of Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, serves as an initiative and implementation organization for the WASH Campaign in Bulgaria and for Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia.

The campaign is a major tool to put water and sanitation on the top of political agenda. The first steps of the WASH Campaign turned it into one of the basic focuses of the Earth Summit in Johannesburg 2002. EfE organized an exhibition in Water Dome in Johannesburg focused on School Sanitation and Youth Involvement.

In Bulgaria, Earth Forever, in collaboration with Bulgaria Youth Red Cross targeted the first phase of the campaign on school sanitation involving 69 schools from 31 settlements in 14 Oblasts of Bulgaria.

Later on the campaign evolved to involve experts from various ministries, utilities, local governments, trainers and educators, NGOs and media at local and national level. ...more information

10 NeighborhoodWoods (2001-2004)

In partnership with the Danish Forest Landscape Research Institute, Hoersholm, Denmark, working in close collaboration with Human Ecology Department, Free University Brussels, Belgium, Earth Forever worked on the research project Advancing the Quality of Life and the Environment of European Cities through Socially-inclusive Planning and Design of Urban Woodlands. The Ayazmo Park near Stara Zagora served as a case study to analyze contemporary urban woodland resources, their interaction with society, and planning, design and management of the selected case study areas.

The project also provided a multistakeholder platform for all interested parties (with emphasis on young people) to take part in the decision-making, design and management of the Ayazmo Park. A shared Vision for the management and maintenance of the Ayazmo Park was developed and published s a result of this process. ...more information