Posts Tagged ‘Sub-Saharan Africa’
GWWI Women and Water on Wednesdays: GWWI Fellow Brings WaSH Education to Village Health Works in Burundi
The Global Women’s Water Initiative is proud to welcome back GWWI 2011 Fellow Epi Bodhi who just returned from Burundi where she worked with international non-profit Village Health Works (VHW) to train their team to recognize the link between water and health and to promote practices that would reduce the risk of water-related disease. VHW…
Read MoreGWWI Women and Water on Wednesdays: Team from Uganda Preparing for a Government Water Contract!
OWAD promotes rural women’s empowerment, alleviates poverty, and eliminates homelessness among widows. With a membership of 2,000, OWAD provides housing for rural women and young mothers among other legal services. After attending the GWWI training, they were able to add water and sanitation solutions to their roster of services for widows and orphans and the…
Read MoreGWWI Women and Water on Wednesdays: GWWI Graduate Selected for Board of Directors for Kenyan Water Company!
Catherine Wanjohi is a 2011 Graduate of the Global Women’s Water Initiative Training Program. Catherine is the Executive Director of Life Bloom, an organization in Naivasha, Kenya that empowers ex-commercial sex workers with vocational skills and education to uplift them into a life of dignity through entrepreneurship. Not only is Life Bloom building a vocational…
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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