WEA Voices
GWWI: Women and Water on Wednesdays: Kenya to Enact Rainwater Harvesting Act – Great Opportunity for GWWI Grads
Posted by Gemma Bulos Follow Gemma, GWWI Director/HuffPost Blogger on Twitter Great news for GWWI Kenya Grads! According to the Kenyan Ministry of Water Deputy Director of Water Resources Juma Omondi, the Kenya Rainwater Harvesting Act will be enacted by the end of 2012. The law will advocate for the integration of household and industrial rainwater harvesting (RWH)…
Read MoreLessons from an Indigenous Woman’s Leadership
Blog entry by Rucha Chitnis, India Director of Women’s Earth Alliance Twitter: @ruchachitnis I had the great honor and joy to speak with Dolores Sales at the International Funders for Indigenous Peoples conference in San Francisco this month. Dolores is an Indigenous Maya Mam woman from Guatemala, who is one of the leaders of National…
Read MoreWEA 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…
Read MoreGWWI 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,…
Read MoreLand 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…
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