Pel Project: Update
By providing clean water in Pel, Mali, we have doubled women’s average income! Thanks to the five wells we are rehabilitating in the village, women no longer spend their days searching for clean water. They can devote more time to growing healthy and inexpensive food for their families and generating their own incomes…by selling the [...]
Pel Project: Update
Progress in Pel is well underway, with three of our five wells already rehabilitated! Above is a photo of Well No. 2 after rehabilitation; below, you can see what it looked like before: Notice how much safer and more secure the new well is, with sturdier construction, protective enclosures, and a cover to keep people, [...]
Kanikombole Project: Update
We have some photos and news from our implementing partners in the Dogon region, AED and Sahel Eco, with whom we worked in the village of Kanikombole. You can see from the photographs that the wells are being maintained and used properly after implementation. Above and below you can see nice, new modern wells, located [...]
Kanikombole Project: Update
Our friend Dillon with AED in Mali sent us some photos from our first project in the Dogon region, Kanikombole. We know how tough the desert is for agriculture, so we are glad to see that the advent of water is making a difference in Dogon lives! The products of the garden will be used [...]
Pel Project: Update
From our friends Sebastien and Barri in Mali: 40 water retention structures were built (each with a capacity of 1200 litres) in the Women’s Association garden, enabling 80 women to work there permanently… There is enough water right now to allow the women to work. This is great news! Thanks, Sebastien and Barri! And further [...]
Mali projects: Update
We spoke with our friends in Mali recently and they assured us that, though people had feared the same drought affecting East Africa, due to the rains coming late this year, things are fine now. We also learned that the Kanikombole project should be finished soon; we hope to have the Pel project completed by [...]
Five wells in Pel!
After completing our initial Mali water project, in Kanikombole, the Voss Foundation is getting ready to begin the next one in Pel, another Dogon village. We almost couldn’t believe it this week when we heard from our implementing partners, AED and Caritas, that they think it may be possible to leverage the success from our [...]
Voss Foundation water project halts cholera outbreak in Latakwen
A note we got today from Stella Deane, our friend at Milgis Trust in Kenya reads: We just wanted to write to tell you about the near fatal outbreak of cholera that was brought to an end by the thankful addition of the Latakwen water pump. The disease was spread just the other week by [...]
Kanikombole: Project update
Having been sufficiently deepened and rehabilitated, the Voss Foundation’s wells in Kanikombole, Mali are now completed! With the first, most important phases of the project accomplished, we will move on to address additional ways in which clean water can improve the life of villagers. A consultant will come in shortly to train the people of [...]
Interview with Stuart Franklin
On the Voss Foundation/Magnum Photos trip to Mali in May, VF European Representative Cecilie Malm Brundtland had a chance to sit down with former Magnum President Stuart Franklin for a brief interview. His responses are below; A limited edition of Stuart’s photographs will be sold later this year to benefit the Voss Foundation. Stay tuned [...]
Dogon dispatches
We’ve been getting great reports of the trip to Mali with photographer Stuart Franklin. Today, Sebastien Amodeo, our friend with the local AED office in Bandiagara, sent us some photos from Dogon country. You can see Voss Foundation European Representatives Cecilie Brundtland and Anette Krosby making friends and learning about water delivery issues in Pel [...]
