The event, to be held April 4-6, follows an agreement between the Vatican’s Scholas Occurrentes and Israeli firm Y.A. Maof that set up the Educational Water Pact and the development of joint projects
Next month, a conference with an ambitious objective will convene in Jerusalem. The Educational Water Pact Forum international conference will seek to promote the goal of providing a glass of clean drinking water to every child in the world. It was born from the common vision of the Pontifical Foundation Scholas Occurrentes and Israeli innovation and project management company Y.A. Maof. The two signed the pact and created the forum last year, in order to heed the call of the world’s most vulnerable, inspired by the ethical challenge of Pope Francis.
The pact seeks to achieve its goal through socio-environmental projects related to water treatment, and safe, sustainable access to water in underdeveloped regions. It also seeks to integrate innovative technological solutions in water management and create a local professional workforce in the water industry in these regions. The pact was first announced at the annual Scholas conference in Madrid last July, which was attended by researchers from 118 universities, as well as diplomats, religious leaders and global governments’ representatives, and was officially signed last December.
Scholas Occurrentes is a Pontifical organization active in 190 countries, founded by Pope Francis to build the “Culture of Encounter.” In the educational field, its network connects more than 450,000 schools and a hundred universities in 35 countries with students from different socioeconomic backgrounds and diverse cultures and religions. It creates synergies, and promotes knowledge sharing for the benefit of local communities. In the environmental aspect, Scholas is committed to promoting “integral ecology,” meaning a change of habits and a more sustainable lifestyle that will allow humanity to take better care of Earth, our common home, as advocated by the Pope in his encyclical “Laudato Si.”
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