- 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 14 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: Monitoring
Reaching the CWS 5-Year Mark
Being in Ghana for 10 months now, I have had the chance to see other water NGOs in action. While I have seen some other NGOs doing great work, I have also seen broken borehole pumps and broken or inefficient … Continue reading
Posted in Monitoring
Tagged business, clean water, Entrepreneurship, Ghana, Monitoring, sustainability, Tamale
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The Seasons They are a-Changin’
First week back in Tamale and Hamatan is in full swing! Hamatan is when a dry-dust wind blows in from the Sahara. This happens from late November until mid-March all over West Africa. This Saharan wind engulfs the city of … Continue reading
Posted in Buja, Gbong, Libi, Monitoring, Tacpuli, Tidan
Tagged africa, clean water, Ghana, hamattan, social enterprise
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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
Posted in Fellowship Program, Kulaa, Monitoring
Tagged africa, clean water, Ghana, global water crisis, monitoring and evaluation, volunteer, water
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To Be a Woman is Not Easy
When I was grocery shopping in Tamale a few weeks ago, I came across a woman selling bread at a food stand with a banner written across the top that read, “To be a woman is not easy”. Almost all … Continue reading
Posted in Buja, Kpaniyili, Libi, Manguli, Monitoring, Sakpalua, Tacpuli
Tagged africa, African Women, clean water, Farming, Ghana, global water crisis, Harvest, Social Entreprenuers, Women
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Voices from the Field: Team Tijo (Britty, Steven, Nicole and Tiffany)
Team Tijo’s opening day happened on Wednesday. They had prepared for days making sure the polytank was filled to the brim. With 187 households it was important to get the polytank all the way full to be sure to have … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, Fellowship Program, Implementation, Monitoring, Tijo
Tagged africa, clean water, Fellowship, Ghana, global water crisis, volunteer
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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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