Georges Malaika School Project: Update
Look at the great photos our DR Congo partner, the Georges Malaika Foundation, sent us of the girls from the Georges Malaika School, drinking fresh, clean water at lunch! We are so proud to have brought access to clean water to this school and the surrounding community! Visit our DRC Projects page for photos, updates, [...]
D.R. Congo: New Project!
We are happy to announce that our second project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will be a hand-pump well for the entire Kalebuka community! The well will ensure fresh clean water for all the villagers, the majority of whom depend on water-demanding activities, such as subsistence farming and cattle herding. The Kalebuka community, [...]
D.R. Congo Project: Final Report
Last year, the Voss Foundation’s Women Helping Women funded a well at the site of the future Georges Malaika School for Girls in the village of Kalebuka, located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Now, the school opening is just weeks away! Thanks to Voss Foundation and its Women Helping Women donors, there is [...]
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Update
We are getting ready to start another project with the Georges Malaika Foundation in the village of Kalebuka, in the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo! In the photo above, taken this week in Kalebuka, representatives from GMF and Solutions for Africa research the location for the well. This will be our [...]
D.R. Congo Project: Update
See above and below great photos from our partner Georges Malaika Foundation showing schoolchildren and Kalebuka villagers enjoying clean drinking water from the Voss Foundation well. The Voss Foundation has partnered with GMF to build a well at the Georges Malaika School for Girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The project is funded [...]
2010 Women Helping Women Honoree
We are proud to announce Noëlla Coursaris as the 2010 Women Helping Women Honoree! Noëlla Coursaris was born in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but went to live with relatives in Europe after the death of her father when she was only five years old. After receiving a degree in business management in Switzerland, [...]
Georges Malaika School project: Update
Our water project with the Georges Malaika Foundation (GMF) is complete! The Voss Foundation has helped GMF build a well at the first all-girls school in the village of Kalebuka in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, providing the school and village with facilitated access to pure, clean drinking water. You [...]
New Project: Georges Malaika School, Kalebuka, DRC
We are very excited to announce our newest water project! In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Voss Foundation is working with the Georges Malaika Foundation (GMF), to build a well at GMF’s first all-girls school, providing adolescent girls with facilitated access to pure, clean drinking water. Georges Malaika Foundation is an organization committed [...]
