- 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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Back to Tamale and it feels so good!
After two weeks of training and saying farewell to some pretty awesome fellows, I have officially started as Ghana Country Director. It feels so good to be back with CWS! With the 6 newly implemented villages, CWS now has 38 … Continue reading
Posted in Cheko, Gbong, Monitoring, Nyamaliga, Tacpuli, The CWS Team, Wambong, Zanzugu Yipela
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Updates from the Field: Rainy Season Has Begun!
The rainy season has begun here in Northern Ghana! This means a lot of things for village life: Farming! Villager’s days, (storms permitting), are comparatively busier than during the dry season. Shea Butter! Shea nuts were collected and dried before … Continue reading
Posted in Kushini, Monitoring, Nyamaliga, Tacpuli, Zanzugu Yipela
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2011 Summer Fellowship Program Day 2
Today we have a guest post from Fellowship Leader Annie McBride! Here’s what Annie had to say about the second day of the Summer Fellowship Program: Today all seven teams got one step closer to bringing clean water to seven … Continue reading
Posted in Fellowship Program, Nyamaliga
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Session 2: Days 3 and 4
The Session 2 fellows started off their third day in Tamale with a great presentation by Foster Soley from unicef, who spoke about the work his organization is doing both here in Ghana and around the world. Foster is a … Continue reading
Posted in Chani, Fellowship Program, Galinzegu, Kpallabisi, Nyamaliga, Nyanguripe, Yipela, Zanzugu
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Day 2: New Year’s Eve!
The second day of the fellowship began with a brief classroom review of the CWS approach to water treatment followed by a more hands on lesson. The fellows practiced rolling alum balls and using it on samples of dugout water. … Continue reading
Posted in Cheko, Fellowship Program, Jarigu, Monitoring, Nyamaliga
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World Water Day!
Yesterday was World Water Day, and we made sure to celebrate this special day with our entire CWS Family here in Ghana! We started our celebration bright and early by opening our fifth water business in Gbong! It was so … Continue reading
Posted in Cheko, Gbong, Jarigu, Nyamaliga, Opening Day, The CWS Team, The Global Water Crisis
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Back to Work
Today was my first official day back in the field. I spent the morning checking up on Nyamaliga and Jarigu and was so excited to see everyone again! Nyamaliga had recently decided to switch from a daily to a monthly … Continue reading
Posted in Jarigu, Monitoring, Nyamaliga
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Last Day in Ghana!
Today is my last official day in Ghana! I can’t believe how quickly these two months went by. I have spent the last week preparing Peter for my departure. We put together new monitoring forms for him, and then had … Continue reading
Posted in Jarigu, Monitoring, Nyamaliga, The CWS Team
Tagged clean water, Community Water Solutions, fundraising, Ghana, Tamale, water treatment
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Monitoring at Jarigu and Nyamaliga
Jarigu Since opening day at Jarigu on October 17th, 98% of the households in the village have visited the water treatment center at least once, while 74% have come a second time and almost 50% have come three times. These … Continue reading
Posted in Jarigu, Monitoring, Nyamaliga
Tagged aquatabs, chlorine, Community Water Solutions, drinking water, Ghana, Jarigu, Northern Region Ghana, Nothern Region, Nyamaliga, Tamale, water
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Updates from the Field
I can’t believe that its already been a week since I left the U.S. It has been really fun being back in Tamale and visiting the CWS water treatment centers. Unfortunately, I was totally fooled by the weather in Accra, … Continue reading
Posted in Kasaligu, Monitoring, Nyamaliga
Tagged aquatabs, Ghana, social entrepreneurship, Tamale, water, water treatment
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