The Ripple EffectThe New Zealand water sector supporting Melanesian communities through Oxfam

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The Ripple Effect is about New Zealand water companies joining together to make a big splash — a splash that ensures fresh water flows to communities in rural Melanesia. It’s about raising the money needed to fund a vital Water, Sanitation and Hygiene education (WASH) project where people need it most.

The Challenge

The Ripple Effect is all about teamwork — and healthy competition! We‘re looking for 20 water company teams to raise $2,000 per team. This will help us reach our target of $40,000, the amount we need to get a Melanesian WASH project off the ground. By working together the Kiwi water sector can make a real difference to the lives of communities that are forced to drink dirty water every day.

How it works

We want companies both large and small to dive in deep. By signing up, your organisation will pledge to raise $2,000. Larger companies, like those with regional offices, can sign up multiple teams, each team pledging to raise $2,000. However you choose to take part, Oxfam will be on hand to provide you with fundraising support, tips, info and anything

What is The Ripple Effect?

you need to help you reach your target. Oxfam will also publicise your participation in the Ripple Effect. Plus, we have some great incentives, like the chance to visit an Oxfam WASH programme in Vanuatu.

Aside from providing life changing water in Melanesia, the Ripple Effect also offers the opportunity for team building, fun, competition and collaboration with your water sector colleagues. And we have some great prizes you can win along the way:

THE BENEFITS

Every team that reaches the $2,000 target by our deadline of March 1, 2014 will be entered into a prize draw and invited to Oxfam’s thank you event and prize giving ceremony to mark World Water Day

The team who raises $2,000 first will win an awesome prize

Where a company enters more than one team, there will be a special certificate and prize for the team within each company that raises the most

The team who raises the most overall, by World Water Day 2014, will win a trip to visit an Oxfam WASH programme in Vanuatu.

We want your fundraising to be easy as. Once you’re signed up we’ll provide you with a full fundraising support pack and there’ll be a dedicated Oxfam team member on hand to support you. Here’s some simple starters to help get the ball rolling: • The classics: a sausage sizzle, morning tea or quiz night.• Workplace faves: dress down day, auctioning an extra day’s annual

leave, asking for a company donation or matched funding. • Novel newbies: pay to park — ask colleagues for a gold coin donation

to park their car for a day. Or you could introduce a lift toll for a day.

THE FUNDRAISING

SAFe wATER IN MELANESIA

$41,363So dive in, get involved in the Ripple Effect and make a dramatic difference to the lives of people who go without safe water. Visit oxfam.org.nz/ripple or call 0800 600 700. Proudly supported by

Melanesia is an island region of the Pacific. It includes the countries of Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Fiji and Solomon Islands. Throughout Melanesia ill-health from drinking dirty water and poor sanitation is one of the most serious threats to human life. Globally, despite improvements in treatment, waterborne diseases such as cholera, malaria, trachoma and worm infestations kill more than one million children each year. Most of these cases can be prevented or treated. Shockingly, in Papua New Guinea just 33 per cent of rural people have access to safe water.

The project

By joining the Ripple Effect, you will help Oxfam and our community development partner in Papua New Guinea, ATprojects deliver life-saving WASH work. Oxfam has set ambitious targets to reduce hygiene-related illness and increase access to safe water and sanitation in the Highlands district of Daulo; we hope you will help us get there.

Together we’ll bring safe water, sanitation and better health to Daulo’s young people. Thanks to you, they will no longer risk their lives every time they take a drink. Here’s what fundraising from the Ripple Effect can provide for Kongi Primary School:

Six round loos and water systems $28,020

Dedicated girls’ showers $5,345

Health and hygiene workshops $992

Knowledge sharing workshops for head teachers $1,147

Teaching materials $2,138

A month of health and hygenie local radio shows $2,066

Health and hygiene booklets $1,655