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GWWI Report From the Field: Sophia Elected As Chair of the Water Committee
The Global Women’s Water Initiative Team has been traveling through East Africa to visit the women teams that were trained in our 2011-2012 year long training program. Meet the people whose lives they are changing. GWWI Team – Gemma Bulos, Director; Rose Wamalwa, Kenya/Tanzania Field Coordinator; Comfort Mukasa, Uganda Field Coordinator Sophia lives in Odesso,…
GWWI Report From the Field: Women Prisoners Provide Their Own Clean Water
The Global Women’s Water Initiative Team has been traveling through East Africa to visit the women teams that were trained in our 2011-2012 year long training program. Meet the people whose lives they are changing. GWWI Team – Gemma Bulos, Director; Rose Wamalwa, Kenya/Tanzania Field Coordinator; Comfort Mukasa, Uganda Field Coordinator Lydia, the senior…
Dr. Seema Tripathi: Leading Change at the Grassroots
Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA) is thrilled to welcome Dr. Seema Tripathi to the Bay Area in early September! Dr. Seema is one of the leaders of WEA’s partner in India, Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG), an organization that promotes the rights and just livelihoods of small and landless farmers in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Dr. Seema…
Mary Saves $1000s With Clean Water
Meet Mary, a businesswoman who sells clothes in a small shop and lives in a small house in Matejo, a slum area in Arusha, Tanzania. A few years back she had an operation on her back and was advised by her doctor to take safe water only. She was also told not to take boiled…
GWWI Women and Water: Stay Tuned for Reports From the Field
GWWI Women and Water: Stay Tuned for Reports From the Field We hope everyone is having a wonderful summer! This next few weeks, our Director, Gemma Bulos will be traveling to follow-up and pay a visit to the 2011 Graduates of the Women and Water Training last August. If you’ve been following along this past…
Gemma Bulos honored as a Water Solutions Trailblazer in Reuters
WOW! Huge congrats to our Director of the Global Women’s Water Initiative, who was just named one of Reuters Top 10 Water Solutions Trailblazers in the world alongside our water heroes Margaret Nakato and Ned Breslin. Read the article here. Like Global Women’s Water on Facebook Follow GWWI on Twitter Follow Gemma, GWWI Director and…
GWWI Women and Water:Dining for Women Raises over $60,000 for GWWIs Women-Led Water Service Center Program
Women’s Earth Alliance is so thrilled to be the recipient of a program grant from Dining For Women to expand and deepen the work of Global Women’s Water Initiative in East Africa this Fall. In April, WEA was honored to be selected to be the DFW featured organization to support our Global Women’s Water Initiative…
GWWI Women and Water: Congrats to GWWI Grad Elected Board Chairperson for her Water District!
The Global Women’s Water Initiative is so excited to announce that Catherine Wanjohi, GWWI 2011 Graduate has been elected as the Chairperson for the Water Company Board for Naivasha District in Kenya! Catherine is the Director of Life Bloom, an incredible organization that uplifts ex-commercial sex-workers by offering training and support so they can generate income through…
GWWI Women and Water: GWWI Graduate Wins Top Prize from Ministry of Water and Irrigation
Congratulations to GWWI Graduates Lindah Wameya and Jane Wanjiko Joseph of Kilili Self-Help Program (KSHP) who won the Top Prize in the “Water For CIties” Ministry of Water and Irrigation National Competition! Lindah and Jane won for their essay promoting what they learned at Global Women’s Water Initiative Training in Uganda last summer – Water, Sanitation and…
Seeds of Hope
“Seed is sacred…The desire to save seeds comes form an ethical urge to defend life’s evolution.” Dr. Vandana Shiva Seed exchanges among small farmers are a time memorial tradition that has led to the immense biodiversity of indigenous seeds around the world. Globally, it is mostly women farmers who are the seed savers, who possess…