- 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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- #CWS water bottles all packed and ready to be shipped to our amazing #indiegogo donors! #cleanwater... fb.me/2gSKUFG2E 5 hours ago
- Alia of the village Cheshegu shows CWS staff how muddy their drinking water is. Cheshegu will be a CWS summer... fb.me/1y5VALNpG 2 days ago
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Category Archives: Kpalung
Monitoring with the Fellows
Yesterday started off with alum training. In the fellows site visits to Kurugu Vohoyili and Kpalung the Fellows collected dugout water. They used this water to practive performing water quality tests the lab, and to practice the alum treatment. The … Continue reading
The CWS Field Staff Goes Back to School Part II
At the beginning of October, CWS field staff, Shak and Amin, brought their knowledge about water and sanitation to a primary school in the village of Kpalung. Their presentation was similar in content to the presentation that Wahab and Peter … Continue reading
Posted in Gidanturu, Kpalung, Monitoring
Tagged chlorea, education, healthy habits, monitoring and evaluation, School presentation, WASH
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Fall Fellows in the Field
The first day of orientation consisted of a crash course of information about Ghana, the global water crisis, waterbourne disease, different water technologies, and finally the nitty gritty details of how we do it! It was a great day with … Continue reading
Posted in Fellowship Program, Kpalung, Kurugu Vohoyiai, Monitoring
Tagged africa, clean water, Fellowship, Ghana, global water crisis, volunteer
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The CWS Staff Goes Back to School
In September, CWS field staffers decided to bring their knowledge about water, sanitation and waterborne disease to the classroom. The CWS field staff team, which includes Peter, Shak, Wahab, Amin and me, Brianan, (you can read our bios here) met … Continue reading
Posted in Gidanturu, Kpalung, Monitoring
Tagged africa, clean water, education, Ghana, global water crisis, healthy habits, School Presentations, WASH
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The People Behind the Numbers: A Look into the Partnership Villages of CWS
When looking at statistics or numbers in development, it’s so easy to forget that there are people behind those numbers. And the villages in which CWS has implemented are no different. They are inevitably made up of people. They have … Continue reading
Posted in Jagberin, Jarigu, Kadula, Kpalung, Monitoring, Partners
Tagged africa, clean water, Ghana, global water crisis, monitoring and evaluation
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Rain, Rain Won’t You Stay?
While it may be summer where you are, in Tamale, the rainy season is in full swing. There are two seasons in Ghana – the rainy season and the dry season. So the terms “winter, spring, summer, fall” don’t mean … Continue reading
Posted in Buja, Gbandu, Gbong, Kpachiyili, Kpalung, Kurugu Vohoyiai, Monitoring, Uncategorized, Yapalsi
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A Week of Monitoring
I have officially been in Tamale for a week now, and what a week it has been! After spending a few days getting the office all ready for the Summer Fellows, I headed out to the field to help Shak, … Continue reading
Posted in Buja, Fellowship Program, Gbong, Kadula, Kagburashe, Kpachiyili, Kpalung, Kpaniyili, Kurugu Vohoyiai, Laligu, Libi, Monitoring, Sakpalua, Yapalsi
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Voices from the Field: The Fu Fu Fighters!
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
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