- Community Water Solutions empowers women to launch sustainable water businesses. How do we do it? We don't drill wells! Instead, we bring students and young professionals from around the world to West Africa, where they build water treatment centers and train local women to run them. These businesses provide safe drinking water to the entire community, generate income for the women entrepreneurs who run them, and use local products. To date, CWS has launched 49 water businesses in Ghana that provide clean water to almost 30,000 people. 100% of our businesses are still in operation today.
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Monthly Archives: November 2010
3 Villages in 3 Weeks: Opening Day in Nyanguripe!
Thats right! Just a few short days after opening the water business in Gilanzegu, CWS opened our 10th water business in the village of Nyanguripe. This water business was sponsored by Stephen and Marie Nolan at last year’s Medfield Fundraiser. … Continue reading
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Gilanzegu
The day after opening day in Kampong, we opened another water treatment business in the neighboring village of Gilanzegu. Like Kampong, we learned about Galinzegu’s need for safe drinking water from unicef who thought that the CWS model would work … Continue reading
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Opening Day in Kampong
Yesterday, we opened our 8th CWS water business in the village of Kampong! It such a fun and busy morning with 26 out of the 29 households in the village showing up to buy water! Kampong is a rural … Continue reading
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Scaling-Up
Community Water Solutions implemented our first water business in June 2008 in the village of Kasaligu in the Northern Region of Ghana. 7 months later, in January of 2009, we opened our second water business in Nyamaliga. 9 months later, … Continue reading
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Support the CWS Fellows!
The Community Water Solutions Winter Fellows are hard at work raising the funds needed to come to Ghana this winter. Each team of 4 must raise $10,000, which covers all of the materials costs for implementing a CWS water treatment … Continue reading
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