Folkestone & Dover Water Services are proud to support WaterAid as our charity.

WaterAid was set up in 1981 by people working in the United Kingdom water industry. It is now a leading independent organisation which enables the world’s poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education. It works in Africa, Asia and the Pacific region and campaigns globally to realise their vision of a world where everyone has access to these basic human rights.

• WaterAid’s mission is to overcome poverty by enabling the world's poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education.
• Safe water is essential for life, yet 1.1 billion people [roughly one sixth of the world’s population] still do not have access to it and 2.6 billion people [two fifths of the world’s population] still do not have adequate sanitation. As a result 5,000 children die every day from diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation.

WaterAid and its partners work with local communities and use a mixture of low cost technologies to deliver lasting solutions to their water and sanitation problems.

• Just £15 is enough to enable one person in the developing world to gain access to a lasting supply of water, sanitation and hygiene education.
• More than 11 million people have benefited from WaterAid’s work in the last 26 years, and WaterAid aims to reach a million more every year.

Please visit the WaterAid  website to find out more.

Support from Customers and Staff

Every year we sponsor the printing costs of a WaterAid leaflet enclosed with our domestic water bills. Since 2002 our customers have generously given over £24,908 to WaterAid in response to this appeal, enough to help 1,660 people gain access to safe, clean water.

Please go to the WaterAid donations  page to find out more about donating.

In addition over the past 10 years more than £22,500 has been raised by our staff through a variety of fund-raising activities which have included cricket tournaments, bring and buy sales, car washes, sponsored walks and bike rides, raffles, donations, a monthly payroll lottery and an annual ‘Give an Hour’ appeal.. Mobile phones and used toner cartridges are also collected and recycled to raise money for WaterAid.

Highlights of 2007

How a Knitted River made a splash at The Cherry Garden.

How the Folkestone Flyers’ 100km Bike Challenge raised £1,216 for WaterAid

To contact Folkestone & Dover Water about our support or fund raising activities for WaterAid email us at Enquiries@fdws.co.uk with ‘WaterAid’ in the subject line.

Please go to the WaterAid contacts  page to contact them directly.