The Tenth Anniversary of “Water Cellar for Mothers” Project

The December 7th, 2010 saw summing up and commending meeting marking 10th anniversary of “Water Cellar for Mothers” Project, which was launched by the China Women's Development Foundation, in the National Indoor Stadium in Beijing.

Chen Zhili, Vice-Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and President of the All-China Women's Federation; Chen Lei, Minister of Water Resources were present and addressing to the meeting. Mr. Zheng Rugang, the Coordinator of the GWP China was invited to the event.

The “Water Cellar for Mothers” Project was mainly implemented by the All-China Women's Federation. Since its initiation in 2000, the project has completed 125000 water cellars in 24 provinces /autonomous regions where water is short in particular in Western China, with total investment of RMB 600 million, covering 1400 water-supply projects and servicing 1.7 million citizens. The meeting was organized also to reward advanced groups or individuals in the period of project implementation and the Plan for 2011-2015 was also released at the meeting.

GWP China has developed the cooperation with the All-China Women’s Federation which is GWP China’s working partner and GWP China Shaanxi also in recent years has a very good cooperation with Shaanxi Provincial Women’s Federation and involved in supporting the implementation of the “Water Cellar for Mothers” Project.