Monthly Archives: June 2011

Only 24 Days Until the CWS Annual Benefit

Posted on June 27, 2011 by

Only 24 days until the CWS Annual Benefit at the W Hotel in Boston! Beer from Sam Adams’, live music performed by the LE Project, photos snapped by the lovely April K, and some amazing auction items…you don’t want to miss … Continue reading →

Posted in Fundraisers | Leave a comment

2011 Summer Fellowship Program: The Impact

Posted on June 22, 2011 by

One week ago today, the 28 CWS Summer Fellows packed up their bags and left Tamale. This summers’ program was a huge success, largely due to the incredible determination of each of our Fellows! Working in the field is not … Continue reading →

Posted in Fellowship Program | 2 Comments

Voices from the Field: The Village Elders!

Posted on June 15, 2011 by

Hey there from the Village Elders, We and our translator T.J. opened our beautiful new water treatment center at Gbanteni this past Friday and have since then been making trips to our village to check up on them! We’re lucky … Continue reading →

Posted in Fellowship Program, Gbateni, Monitoring | Leave a comment

Voices from the Field: Team Sixey!

Posted on June 12, 2011 by

Hello from Team Six, better known as Team Kasi or Team Sixey. We have been working for the past couple weeks in Kudula, a fairly large village of just over 100 households and two schools, about a half hour away … Continue reading →

Posted in Fellowship Program, Implementation, Kadula, Monitoring | Leave a comment

Voices from the Field: Team Nothing but Net

Posted on June 11, 2011 by

Due to some technical difficulties this post is a few days late, but here is team 2 (“nothing but net”)’s story about training the women in Kushini to prepare for opening day (which happened on Thursday!) Today, we performed our … Continue reading →

Posted in Fellowship Program, Implementation, Kushini | Leave a comment

Voices from the field: Team 3!

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

June 9 Today, Team 3 ended their morning in the village with the grand opening of the Community Water Solutions water treatment center in the Kpalguni Village.  Being a relatively small village with a focus on farming yams, most of … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenges, Fellowship Program, Implementation, Kpalguni, Opening Day | Leave a comment

Guess who’s here?

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

We’re taking a brief time-out from our regularly scheduled programming to make a very exciting announcement: Kathryn arrived in Tamale on Monday and we are SO happy to have her here! For the next week and half Kathryn and I … Continue reading →

Posted in The CWS Team | 1 Comment

Voices from the Field: The Salaminga Snails!

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

Hey there from the Salaminga Snails! You might be wondering how we got our name. Salaninga is the local word for “foreigner/white person” and then snails because we make everyone look so slow! Our trip to Ghana has been great … Continue reading →

Posted in Fellowship Program, Implementation, Tacpuli | 1 Comment

Voices from the Field: The Fu Fu Fighters!

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

Team 7-also known as the Fufu Fighters- has been busy beginning the implementation process of their water center; however, we had an interesting start to our process. We began our implementation process in one village, but ended up switching to … Continue reading →

Posted in Fellowship Program, Implementation, Kpalung | Leave a comment

Voices from the Field: The Pineapple Express!

Posted on June 5, 2011 by

So our team, Team Pineapple Express, started off our Tamale adventure really strong, winning the scavenger hunt with a prize of pride, but hey, we also found Barack Obama underwear, which is a prize in itself.  Our team is Stephanie, … Continue reading →

Posted in Fellowship Program, Implementation, Jabrang | Leave a comment