The World Environment Day (WED) was established in 1972 by the United Nations at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment ( 5–16 June 1972) reported as the first international meeting on the environment and linking environmental protection and poverty alleviations; eventually leading to the Sustainable Development Goals. The World Environment Day was first held in 1974 under the team ‘Only One Planet’. Over the last 50 years, the WED has been a platform for bringing communities together to work together towards addressing specific global or local environmental challenges leading to transformative and impactful changes in communities. The theme for the 2022, WED celebrations was ‘Only ONE PLANET’ focused on the…

ACDA in 2022 is engaging in a giant water project that will supply the entire village. This project has long been a felt need of the population both within and out of the village. Designed to be supplied by gravity and for 25 years, water will come from 3 spring outlets areas and meet domestic as well as agricultural needs of the over 3500 people. Additionally, two underground boreholes fitted with manual pumps will be constructed to meet the needs of about 500 of the population living up the hills at locations higher than that of the locations where the storage tanks for the gravity fed systems will be located.…