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Dui'ing my work and many many of our fenow human institutions at home and
inissions iii Afi'ica I have beings who desperately gbroad have not been able to
seen too many men, women need to live with humaii cope with the growing
andchildren die fromunsafe dignity preserved. hi this global problems like
or no water. 28% of the pursuit, we have to work poverty, climate change,
children dying before the hand in hand with local diseases and organized
age of 5 in Africa die for communities and their Cllme.
lack of clean water or ade- human and material
quate sa+'utatron. resources. I believe we need an inter-
national division of labour
Here is a concrete challenge Q: You have a long to effectively deal with these
for all of us - to provide safe international career. huge challenges. Here I
water to l billion people lac- When you look at the hope the United Nations
king it and 2,4 billion lac- world today, what went will represent the best of our

king toilets. I have recently wrong, and is there dreams as well as set the
accepted to serve as something that we as direction for envigorated
Chaiii'nan of a new Swedish ordinary citizens can do work for peace, develop-
NGO, WaterAid/Sweden. to improve it? ment and respect of human
We work vei'y closely with rights.
our "mother organisation" Nobody can do evei'ything -
WaterAid/[JK. which was but everybody can do some-
named the Chai'ity of the thing. We must not succumb
Year by Financial Times in to hopelessness and passivi-
2008. ty. The world has missed
many opportunities and
I vei'y much hope we can political leaders have made
make conditions better for many mistakes. Our

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