==Potential for action and change==
[[Image:KOEE program.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Faith Community Education for Sustainable Development Project, by Kenya Organization for Environmental Education. Photo: [http://www.koee.org/#!faith-based-esd/cpl4 KOEE]]]
Water, sanitation, children and faith were the focus when religious leaders, theologians, educators, environment/development specialists, water sanitation experts and innovators met for the first ever workshop on Faith and Water in Salisbury’s Sarum College in 2009. The immediate goal was to produce a useful guide to help faiths and secular groups work together to protect water resources and the environment, to preserve hygiene and promote the safe management of water and waste, specifically in the context of schools. In the longer term the meeting was intended to forge strong partnerships and reinforce the faiths’ ability to help communities improve their water facilities for many years to come, and encourage international secular agencies to see them as natural partners. As a result, water has become an integral part of the long-term commitments to tackle environmental issues made by the faith groups in attendance at this event.
* In Kenya, the Methodist Church, Anglican Church, Catholic Church, Presbyterian Church and the Muslim Supreme Council, are supported by the Kenya Organization for Environmental Education to promote faith-based teachings on the environment in faith schools and create an inter-faith resource for education for sustainable development with integrated religious values. The strong links between this initiative, Kenyan Ministry of Education strategy and the worldwide UNESCO promoted ESD programme highlights the common ground shared between secular organisations, government departments and faith communities and the strength of combining those efforts.
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