- 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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- FaceTime meeting to put our summer fellows into teams! One month until the Summer program and we pumped! fb.me/2GmepcGgU 19 hours ago
- #CWS water bottles all packed and ready to be shipped to our amazing #indiegogo donors! #cleanwater... fb.me/2gSKUFG2E 1 day ago
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Category Archives: Fellowship Program
Two Week Fall Fellowship Program
When I talk about the CWS Fellowship, its always so exciting to see how many people are interested in the program! Whether it’s talking to my mom who wants to know what it is I am actually doing in Ghana, … Continue reading
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Keeping It Fresh! Bringing the Spunk!
When it comes to the fellowship program, I get stoked! As the Director of Operations at CWS, a large part of my job is to organize the fellowship programs. For months, we prepare: travelling all over the U.S. to recruit, … Continue reading
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Thank you!
Thank you all for supporting Community Water Solutions’ Indiegogo Campaign, Salamatu’s Story! Our team was completely overwhelmed by the sheer number of people who donated to the campaign, tweeted, emailed, “liked” and shared the link! We are so grateful for … Continue reading
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Introducing our 2013 Summer Fellows…
We are so excited to introduce our 2013 Summer Fellows! We have an awesome group together and are so excited to launch new water businesses and bring clean drinking water to more people. We can’t wait to be in Ghana with … Continue reading
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Fellowship Applications due TOMORROW!
We’re taking a break from our regularly scheduled posting about Salamatu’s Story to remind everyone that applications for the CWS Summer Fellowship Program are due TOMORROW, March 15th at 5pm est. This is your chance to sit with a chief … Continue reading
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Salamatu’s Story: One Woman’s Journey to Becoming a CWS Water Entrepreneur
Community Water Solutions has some EXCITING NEWS…. This morning we launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo in an effort to raise funds for our expansion in Ghana! For more details, check out our beautiful new video featuring Salamatu, one of … Continue reading
CWS on the Road: US Edition Part 2
**First, our apologies to our email subscribers for filling your inboxes yesterday! We recently switched back to using wordpress for our blog and needed to transfer over all the posts from the past couple of months. Everything should be all … Continue reading
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Voices from the field: Team G (Gabi, Katie, Jane & Jakob)
Hi Everyone! Team G here (Gabi, Katie, Jane & Jakob). Today we went to our village, Kulaa, to conduct monitoring of the villager’s safe storage containers. Jakob stayed home with an injured foot (who is now fully recovered) but we … Continue reading
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Voices from the Field: Team C (Emily, Lauren, Sarah and Priya)
Team C, aka Charlie’s Angels (consisting of Emily, Lauren, Sarah, and Priya), ventured into the school in Tindan today to teach students about healthy drinking habits! First, Sarah, Emily and Lucy (our photographer) went to the dugout and water treatment … Continue reading
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Tagged africa, clean water, education, Ghana, hygiene, volunteer, WASH
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Summer Fellowship Applications Now OPEN!
Applications for the Summer Fellowship Program are open! Click here to apply now!
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