1 © Kate Holt/IRIN WHY WASHINGTON STATE? Washington state continues to be a leading exporter, shipping $81.9 billion in goods and $24 billion in services in 2013,1 but there is more to the story than just airplanes and software. Our state’s most important export is a better quality of life for people all over the world. Washington state NGOs and companies are working in over 200 countries in areas such as food security, human rights, good governance, economic development, education, environment and health. With such a strong global development community, Washington state could easily be called the Silicon Valley of Hope. WHY GLOBAL WASHINGTON? Global Washington is the only organization in Washington state that unites businesses, nonprofits, foundations and universities that are working in global development, leading to partnerships that result in innovative products and solutions in the field. We promote our members, bring them together to spark new ideas, and build a network of leaders improving lives around the world. Global Washington believes that by collaborating and working together in our efforts, we accelerate a shared mission of making the world a better place. 1 Washington Council on International Trade 2 PHOTO: SPREEHA GLOBAL CHALLENGES EDUCATION ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY Worldwide, 114 million More than 3.7 billion children don’t receive people struggle to live a basic primary on $2 per day, and half education.1 And even of those are actually for those who are enrolled in surviving on $1 per day or less.5 In school, the quality of education is 12 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, often extremely low. This results the extreme poverty rate is above in 776 million illiterate adults, 60%; in four countries (Burundi, two-thirds of whom are women.2 DRC, Liberia and Madagascar), it is above 80%.6 HEALTH ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Approximately 22,000 Water scarcity affects children die every over 40% of the day as a direct result world’s population. of poverty.3 In Sub- More than 2.6 billion Saharan Africa, the situation is so people don’t have basic sanitation severe that children are 16 times and 780 million lack clean drinking more likely to die before age five water.7 It’s predicted that, by 2025, than children in industrialized 1.8 billion people will be living in countries.4 More than 50% of areas with absolute water scarcity these deaths are related to health and another two-thirds of the conditions that could be prevented world’s population could be facing or treated with simple, affordable water-stressed conditions.8 interventions. “Mona Foundation is proud to partner with Global Washington. Through the community that GlobalWA has built, we have found community, a common global purpose, inspiration and a voice. The networking and educational opportunities have been outstanding and have also served to bolster our pride in Washington state as the global state!” –Rita Egrari, Director, Northwest Regional Office. Mona Foundation 1 The UN Millennium Project 5 The UN Millennium Project 2 ProLiteracy 6 The World Bank 3 UNICEF 7 The UN Millennium Project 1 The UN Millennium Project, 2 ProLiteracy, 3 UNICEF, 4 World Health Organization, 5 The UN Millennium Project, 4 World Health Organization 8 Water.org 6 The World Bank, 7 The UN Millennium Project, 8 Water.org 3 WASHINGTON’S SOLUTION — STORIES FROM OUR MEMBERS LANDESA SPREEHA UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF LAW Africa, China and India Dhaka, Bangladesh Sustainable International Chilia Mahato is one of 50,000 Spreeha seeks to break the Development (SID) LL.M. poor, landless women who cycle of poverty in the slums Program gained title to a micro-plot of Dhaka, Bangladesh through of land in February an integrated and holistic “Striving for a 2014 thanks to approach. In addition to health World of Shared a partnership care and skills training, Spreeha Prosperity” between the is providing education for Students in the government nearly 300 preschoolers and SID Program of West 350 students enrolled in after- learn through Bengal, India school tutoring. an innovative, and Landesa. Four sisters—Afsana, Afrin, hands-on and Landesa Afroza and Anika—were raised practical approach, partners with by their grandmother, who is providing them with governments now ailing. They represent the the skills needed to face the and local positive impact education has international development organizations in Africa, in a disadvantaged community. challenges of the 21st century. China and India to help the With the support of Spreeha- SID students partner with local world’s poorest families gain trained teachers and social and international NGOs to secure rights to land. Founded workers, Afsana has completed address a breadth of human as the Rural Development her schooling. She is now rights and development issues. Institute, Landesa has helped pursuing higher education at In post-conflict Northern more than 109 million poor the National University with Uganda, students examined families since 1967. When the goal to provide for her root causes of forced early men and women like Chilia younger sisters as well as her marriage and child domestic have rights to land, they have grandmother. servitude—forms of human the security, opportunity and trafficking—and devised incentive to invest in their projects to boost household crops, sustainably increase their economics of vulnerable harvests and reap the benefits— families. improved nutrition, health and education—for generations. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a project to Chilia and her daughters now construct one of the world’s sleep in a thatch home, and eat largest dams will soon be under and sell the vegetables and fruit way. Students analyzed World they grow on their tennis-court- Bank resettlement policies and sized patch of Eden. assessed the human rights record of bidding construction firms. Their findings will be used to advocate for the affected communities. Top 10 countries where Global Washington member organizations work NICARAGUA 20 19 MEXICO 19 GUATEMALA 4 WASHINGTON’S SOLUTION — STORIES FROM OUR MEMBERS PANGEA CASCADE DESIGNS East Africa, Southeast Asia, Manufacturer of Mountain Mesoamerica and the United Safety Research States Building on more than 45 years Pangea was founded with a of innovative outdoor products, “Global Washington shared vision: Advancing an Mountain Safety Research engaged, participatory, grass- (MSR) saw an opportunity to is a tremendous roots philanthropy model and improve the lives of people enabling giving circle members around the world through resource to me, my to build direct relationships with affordable water treatment the communities and locally systems, including the new MSR staff and to our based organizations they fund. SE200 chlorine maker, designed for low-resource settings. state. The local Eleven years after its inception, MSR has partnered with 60-plus donor members established local global health global development provide monetary grants to 19 organizations, such as PATH community-directed projects and World Vision, to ensure the community is lucky in specific regions in East success of this new mission. Africa, Southeast Asia and to have GlobalWA Mesoamerica, such as Flor MSR aims to create high-quality y Canto, based in Oaxaca, products that people want and to represent them, Mexico. Under the leadership that are chosen by the people of Carmen Santiago Alonso, a who need them most. They amplify their voice 61-year-old Zapotec woman, have spent five years learning Flor y Canto is committed to and listening, analyzing new and promote the defending the water rights for technologies and markets, and indigenous people in 12 farming going directly to the end-users great work that communities. The organization in the field to ensure product focuses on water scarcity efficacy and performance is being done in through technical solutions— in new and challenging such as rainwater harvesting— environments. Washington state to and awareness raising, advocacy and community improve lives around empowerment. the world.” -Congressman Adam Smith NEPAL 21 20 UGANDA INDIA 26 29 CHINA 19 KENYA 36 CAMBODIA 19 TANZANIA 5 WASHINGTON STATE AT WORK GlobalWA members improving our world 58 schools in Haiti have been built through 78,053 volunteer work days1 70,000 people living in Bangladesh’s urban slums now have access to clean water, toilet facilities and hygiene education2 22,000 people living on less than $1.50/day in rural Kenya now have local medical services and hospital care3 12,000 survivors of landmine accidents in Vietnam have received access to emergency medical services, prosthetics, physical therapy, vocational training, scholarships and micro-credit loans4 24 school libraries have been established for children in Ometepe, Nicaragua5 325,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have received HIV prevention, care and treatment services6 1 buildOn, 2 Water1st International, 3 Lift Up Africa, 4 Clear Path International, 5 Bainbridge Ometepe Sister Island Association, 6 PATH 6 PHOTO: University of Washington GLOBALWA AT WORK Our Mission Global Washington supports the global development community in Washington state that is working to create a healthier and more equitable world. We promote our members, bring them together to spark new ideas and partnerships, and build a network of leaders improving lives around the world. Our Vision Change the world for the better by strengthening Washington state’s vibrant global development community and increasing the impact of our members to improve