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WEA selected by Cooper design firm for UX Bootcamp
This summer, WEA has been selected by Cooper, a San Francisco-based design and strategy firm to be the focus of their four day “UX Bootcamp”. The UX Bootcamp is part intensive design course, part design competition. Designers, engineers, and product managers will join forces to learn design methods, while envisioning new concepts for WEA’s website…
GWWI Women and Water on Wednesdays: Solar CooKit – Using the Sun to Clean Water
One of the cheapest and greenest ways to clean water is to harness the heat of the sun! As Mama Solar, GWWI Solar CooKit Trainer says, ‘the sun is free and we here in Africa have plenty of it!’ The sun’s heat is used to pasteurize water which has the same effects as boiling,…
Land is Life
By Nancy Djembe | Intern, Sub-Saharan Africa Program | Women’s Earth Alliance Last Thursday, May 3rd, I came home so angry and frustrated about what I had just learned from Anuradha Mittal’s lecture on land grabs in Africa. Anuradha is the founder and director of the Oakland Institute, a think-tank that works to “increase public…
GWWI Women and Water on Wednesdays: Congratulations to GWWI Trainer Godliver Businge Graduating #1 in Her Class!
A huge congratulations goes out to Global Women’s Water Initiative (GWWI) Trainer Godliver Businge who recently graduated #1 in her class at St Joseph’s Technical Institute in Uganda – and incidentally, the ONLY WOMAN! Not only did Godliver receive top marks in Civil Engineering, on April 28, 2012, she gave the commencement speech attended by…
Climate Change Resilience Begins With Women
By: Rucha Chitnis Manju Devi is a farmer, a single mother of three and a dedicated field worker with a local grassroots organization called Nav Jagriti in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India. Manju is on a mission to build the self-reliance of women in her community who are affected by poverty, food insecurity…
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Transforming Economic Power, Transforming Ourselves
Blog entry by Rucha Chitnis, India Director of Women’s Earth Alliance Twitter: @ruchachitnis I had the honor of attending the 12thAWID Forum held in Istanbul last month. This was an astonishing convergence of nearly 2,500 grassroots activists, scholars, feminist economists, donors, artists and writers. We gathered to learn and share how global economic…
GWWI Women and Water on Wednesdays: Meet Mama Africa, Anna Anatoli, GWWI 2008 Graduate and 2011 Trainer in Training
GWWI is proud to share this interview of Anna Anatoli, or as she was so aptly named, ‘Mama Africa’. That’s a big name to live up to, but Anna does a great job filling the bill! Anna came to the Global Women’s Water Initiative in 2008 to our inaugural Women and Water Training in Kenya.…
GWWI Women and Water on Wednesdays: GWWI Director, Gemma Bulos Raising the Voice of Women in Water on Huffington Post!
Gemma Bulos, GWWI Director The Global Women’s Water Initiative is so excited to announce that Gemma Bulos, GWWI Director, published a powerful article, “Transforming Women’s Water Burdens Into Economic Opportunities” in the Huffington Post! Because of this recent piece, she has been invited to be a regular HuffPost blogger! As an award-winning social entrepreneur, water advocate,…
Angella and Martha Win an Award and Buy a Brick Machine!
Angella and Martha have two big reasons to celebrate and are one step closer to reaching their goal of providing their community with access to water! First, they were able to raise funds from their local supporters and community members to buy an ISSB brick-making machine to build strong water tanks and rainwater harvesting systems!…
GWWI Women and Water on Wednesdays: UCOBAC Receives the Gift of Hygiene from CNN Hero, Derek Kayonga!
The Global Women’s Water Initiative is thrilled to share this video featuring CNN Hero Derek Kayonga of the Global Soap Project (GSP) providing UCOBAC with recycled soap thanks to GWWI Fellow, Lily Dimling! A primary goal of GWWI is to create an international network of women leaders in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector providing a platform…