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Today, 22 March, 2024 is celebrated around the world as World Water Day. In 1992, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development saw the first formal proposal of World Water Day under Agenda 21. The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in December 1992 by which March 22 was declared as World Water Day from 1993 onwards. World Water Day raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water and what we can do to tackle the global water crisis. Every year UN-Water, the UN's coordination mechanism on water and sanitation, sets the theme for World Water Day. The theme for 2024 is: "Leveraging Water for Peace". The key takeaway from this theme is: Water can create peace or spark conflict. Tensions in society can arise due to water scarcity or pollution and only cooperation and sustainable use of water can resolve. When we cooperate on water, we create a positive ripple effect, fostering harmony and building resilience to shared challenges. This is required to align with the UN SDG Goal 6 which aims to provide water and sanitation to all by 2030. Let's get working on it. For more information on water visit our water page on our WIOF Website at: https://worldisonefamily.com/element/water and subscribe to us to be part of a community to help protect our planet Earth, the only place in the vast universe we can call "home". Join the movement.

Today, 19 March 2024, is celebrated as World Social Work Day by the International Federation of Social Workers. It aims to highlight the achievements of social work and social workers who untiringly work for the betterment of society day in and out. Principles of social justice, human rights, collective responsibility and respect for diversities are central to social work. The theme in 2024 for World Social Work Day is "shared future for transformative change". Social workers play a huge role in NGOs and some of the emerging trends and opportunities in the NGOs include 1) Digital transformation (use of online platforms to deliver services) 2) Interdisciplinary Collaboration (people from varied fields like psychology, sociology, law, economics, environmental sciences working together) 3) Global Citizenship (respecting diversity) 4) Social Innovation (engaging stakeholders and testing promising ideas) and 5) Professional Development (enhance knowledge and skills). Our WIOF Website features NGOs in the NGOs in Focus section on the landing page and also plans to have talks with prominent Social Workers in the Coffee Conversations Section soon. For more information on this front, please visit us at: http://worldisonefamily.com and subscribe to us to be part of a community to protect our planet, the only place in the vast universe that we can call "home". Join the movement.