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Changing Lives Challenge
Making a difference in people's lives is what we do at United Utilities - whether we're providing essential water services to homes and businesses or working with community groups to breathe new life into neighbourhoods.
Changing Lives - the challenge
In 2008, United Nation's Year of Sanitation, the leaders of United Utilities were given a glimpse of a world where people don't have access to basic facilities like water and toilets. The Executive Leadership Team were given just one week to build a block of toilets for use by the local school and community.
Watch our video and see the Changing Lives Challenge as it happened. You'll hear the United Utilities leadership team's story and get a glimpse how we've helped WaterAid change lives in Zambia.
Changing Lives - achievements
Things have changed quite a bit for the Changing Lives Partners - Hope through Action, WaterAid and Youth Sport Trust.
Hope through Action: the local council in Mbekweni has granted a new 50-year lease for the Sports Stadium and the legal documentation for the Hope through Action Foundation in South Africa has been drawn up and signed. Building will now commence in August 2009 and be complete in time for the South African World Cup in 2010.
Lord Mawhinney of the Football league board has granted a charitable donation of £60,000 per annum (for two years) to the charity, in recognition of the development of sporting opportunities in the Township.
WaterAid: An additional 4,000 people in the Monze District of Zambia now have access to clean water and sanitation. 14 new latrines have been built for schools - in addition to the 3 built by the ELT in June last year!
WaterAid has also identified the area and programme of work for the Technical Development side of the partnership agreement. Building on from their management development plan carried out last year, the secondee(s) will be asked to review the capacity of WaterAid and its partners in the urban area of Lusaka with a view to developing their middle and low-level staff.
Since 1994, you and the North West based supporters of WaterAid have raised a staggering £11,749,869. See the WaterAid pages for more information on one of the projects completed by the funding from United Utilities.
Youth Sport Trust: Thanks to your support, the Youth Sport Trust will be able to continue the Young Officials Development Officer programme until December 2010.
Since June, with your fundraising help, 11 YODOs have been appointed, 80 young officials officiated at the 2008 UK Sports Games in Bristol and Bath and an amazing 329 new young officials were trained across eight different sports.
