Salsa4Water

My flatmate came to me one evening and asked me: „Did you hear about the salsa classes? If you want more information, you'll find in on the web pages of our university.“ So I looked at the web pages and on Tuesday attended my first Cuban salsa lesson. I have been to three salsa lessons and I must say that I had a really great time, met new interesting people and learned quite a lot of steps (style called Rueda de Casino).

.These aren't ordinary lessons. The main goal is to help. All the money goes to Water Aid – an organization that tries to provide safe water, effective sanitation and hygiene education to the world’s poorest people. For each lesson you pay 20 SEK (≈ 50 Kč) and it all – 100% goes to Water Aid.

Isn't that a great way how to help people who have almost nothing, how to save many people from diseases or even death from bad water? „Life isn’t fair, but it will definitely not get any fairer if we do nothing about it!“ (Sam Kendall, President and founder of salsa4water) I think that Salsa4water is a great project. It combines enjoyable and helpful. You have fun, meet new people, have some exercise and give people access to clean water. It would be great if something similar was in the Czech republic too. It doesn't have to be salsa, it could be any other knowledge, skills that volunteers could share with others and raise money to support this (or a different) project.

If you're interested you can find more information here: http://salsa4wa­ter.se/index.php and http://www.wa­teraid.org/

flatmate – spolubydlící

attend – zúčastnit se

sanitation – kanalizace, hygienické zařízení

disease – nemoc

enjoyable – zábavný

access – přístup

knowledge – znalost

volunteer – dobrovolník

Článek sepsala ze Švédského města Linköping Zuzka, členka redakce