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 [...]
Ndonyo Nasipa Project: Update
Our partner Milgis Trust sent some great photos of the implementation and construction of the well that will serve the water system at Ndonyo Nasipa. The Ndonyo Nasipa project is the Voss Foundation’s third water system in the Samburu region of Kenya, with Milgis Trust, and the second Women Helping Women project. For more photos, [...]
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, [...]
Women Helping Women II: Ndonyo Nasipa (European Edition)
We are excited to announce the launch of our second European Women Helping Women program! Women Helping Women is an international grassroots campaign wherein a group of women join forces to change the lives of an African community with access to clean water. The newest Women Helping Women / Kvinner hjelper Kvinner project will be [...]
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 [...]
Ethiopia Project: Update
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VOSS FOUNDATION HELPS CHF INTERNATIONAL PROVIDE CLEAN WATER IN RURAL ETHIOPIA Donation Will Increase Access to Safe Water for More Than 100,000 People Silver Spring, MD (June 3, 2010)— Continuing its long-term commitment to Ethiopia and its successful partnership with CHF International (CHF), the Voss Foundation has donated $25,000 to the Silver [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Women Helping Women visit to Swari
In February 2010, some of the Women Helping Women supporters traveled to Kenya to attend the opening ceremony of the water project they had funded in the Samburu village of Swari. To bring clean-water access to Swari, nearly 150 Norwegian women donated NOK2000 each. Every single contribution went directly to help women and girls in [...]
Poem about water, from a Swari girl
Last week, Voss Foundation European Representatives Cecilie Malm Brundtland and Anette Krosby attended the opening of the Swari project in Samburuland, Kenya, along with some of the Norwegian women who helped to fund the water system through Women Helping Women. We will post some more photos and reports from the trip soon, but thought you [...]
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 [...]
Swari project: Update
We recently got an update and some pictures of the Swari project currently underway in Kenya, from Stella at Milgis Trust: The pipeline trench is now fully completed and the kisima (water hole) is currently being dug for the solar water pump – this will be approximately 30-40 feet. Pete made a great judgement with [...]
Swari project: Update
Some more updates and photos of our Swari project, from our friends at the Milgis Trust! The first photo, above is of a meeting earlier this month. It shows the Swari area chief Mr. Lenkaaka giving a speech to the Swari community (mostly women) and thanking Milgis Trust and Voss Foundation for bringing water to [...]
Kenya projects: Update on Swari and News from Latakwen
Due to poor Internet access in Samburuland, we just received two consecutive emails at once from our friends at Milgis, updating us on the preparations to begin in Swari and the continued success of the Latawken project. Stella writes: I’m afraid to report that the Milgis ecosystem and its surrounds is yet to receive a [...]
Swari: Women Helping Women Project update
Stella, our fantastic friend at Milgis Trust in Kenya, sent us some photos of Swari, our Women Helping Women village in the Samburu region. She also sent some beautiful photos of the Samburu women our Norwegian women are helping. Thank you, Stella!
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 [...]
Drought report from Kenya
Many people have been asking about how our friends in Kenya are faring with the severe water shortage. As The New York Times reported on September 7, a “devastating drought is sweeping across Kenya.” Unfortunately, as you can see in the map above, also from the Times, the Samburu fall squarely in the water-starved area. The [...]
Swari: Project update
An email from our friends at Milgis Trust over the weekend: We are hoping to arrange to have the supplies up at Swari in the next week or so as our technician is going to Nairobi on Monday to check through all the supplies and make sure everything is in order before the lorry leaves. It [...]
Update: Women Helping Women / (Kvinner Hjelper Kvinner)
140 women have already joined our Women Helping Women /Kvinner Hjelper Kvinner Norwegian fundraising campaign! Once all the donations have been remitted to the Voss Foundation, we will be able to fund the entire Swari water project in Kenya and hope to begin working on our next. The first woman to join was Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland — [...]
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 [...]
