Posts Tagged ‘wells’

• Bringing clean water to Africa & India

  Date: 2009.11.21 | Category: Global Water Issues, Nonprofit Organization | Response: 0

  Clean water changes lives! The Water Project funds both the technical assistance and supplies needed for communities to build wells, small dams, rain catchment systems,  and/or water filters. LINK: The Water Project

• About Lifewater.ca

  Date: 2009.11.17 | Category: Global Water Issues, Nonprofit Organization | Response: 0

  Lifewater.ca is a group of volunteers that trains, equips & supports the rural poor in Africa to drill wells and build washrooms. Currently, the group is working in Liberia, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia and Haiti. To read more about the group or notes from villagers with new wells, letters from local drillers, reflections from Volunteers returning from African and more  LINK: LIFEWATER

• Living Water builds wells in Nigeria

  Date: 2009.11.17 | Category: Global Water Issues | Response: 0

  Until Living Water arrived on the scene in Zing, a region  on the eastern edge if Nigeria with over 25,000 people, the number of pumps providing clean water was zero. Now however, there are five new wells in Zing, providing safe, clean water for thousands and thousands of people per day. Living Water International exists not only to help communities acquire desperately needed clean water, volunteers also trains and equips the people to ensure that the contributed energy and resources results in sustainable, participatory water systems, meeting the long-term needs of communities.  To learn more, go to LINK:  Living Water International

• About Global Water

  Date: 2009.11.16 | Category: Global Water Issues, Nonprofit Organization | Response: 0

  Global Water is an international, non-profit humanitarian organization that was founded in 1982. The organization focusses on creating safe water supplies, sanitation facilities and hygiene-related facilities for rural villagers in developing countries. Global Water uses a model, the Rural Outreach Water Supply Program (or ROWS Program) which works to implement water supply projects in rural villages in many challenging developing country environments.

  Follow this link for more information about the organization. LINK: GLOBAL WATER

• About Childcare Worldwide

  Date: 2009.11.16 | Category: Canadian, Nonprofit Organization | Response: 0

  Childcare Worldwide is a Christian interdenominational non-profit organization working in developing countries for over 25 years, “Helping Children Survive and Succeed” through child sponsorship.

  Childcare is also involved in projects that improve access to clean water and sanitation. For example recently in Nakuru, Kenya, Childcare supported the Kaimiana Elementary school and the surrounding village with a well. Now 10,000 people have access to clean, safe drinking water. At the Lake Victoria Children’s Village, in Uganda, Childcare provided the John Milne Living Water Well. Now the children have safe, clean, drinking water.

  To find out more about the programs generated and supported by Childcare Worldwide, including LifeStraw Water Filter System, bringing clean water to individual families, or the “Walk for Water” Event coming this Spring 2010, please visit the organization’s website at the following link.

  LINK: CHILDCARE WORLDWIDE

• About Ryan’s Well Foundation

  Date: 2009.11.16 | Category: Canadian, Nonprofit Organization | Response: 0

  Founded in 2001 by Ryan Hreljac, Ryan’s Well is a registered Canadian water charity. Ryan’s Well has three primary goals: BUILD, EDUCATE and MOTIVATE – building water and sanitation projects in developing countries; educating students about the need for , clean water and the possibility of making a difference in their world; and motivating people, especially youth, to take action and make a positive change in our world. For more information about the charity or to subscribe to the eNewletter and receive updates about the activities and projects, go to the following link.
  Link: http://www.ryanswell.ca/

• UNICEF reports on water activities in Niger

  Date: 2009.11.16 | Category: Global Water Issues | Response: 0

  Listen to correspondent Nina Martinek’s touching report on UNICEF television about the activities and efforts being done to provide fresh safe drinking water, hygiene and water to rural villages in Niger. Approximately 64% of people in rural Niger do not have access to safe drinking water. They must walk long distances to fetch water and are often left no choice but to rely on stagnant pools of water for drinking, cleaning and washing.  As a result, water borne diseases, lack of hygiene and inadequate sanitation perpetuate a cycle of poverty and malnutrition in children, as well as other members of the community. Nina Martinek reports on how UNICEF’s support in the contruction and rehabilitation of bore holes and cemented wells in Nigers has eased the lives of women and children and ultimately improved the life and health of the community.

   LINK: UNICEF REPORT