You’re invited! WHW Boston 2012
2ND ANNUAL WOMEN HELPING WOMEN BOSTON An evening to improve the lives of women in Africa with access to clean water; a celebration of global female cooperation. Drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and Voss Foundation’s famous African Bazaar! Purchase tickets online WOMEN HELPING WOMEN BOSTON COMMITTEE Event Chairs: Amy Canepa Donahue, Nancy Parker Wilson Host Committee: [...]
Save the Date: Women Helping Women Boston 2012
Purchase tickets here! Voss Foundation is hosting its second annual Women Helping Women cocktail event in Boston on June 20th! An evening to improve the lives of women in Africa with access to clean water–and celebrate global female cooperation! In addition to enjoying drinks and hors d’oeuvres, participants will have the chance to shop at [...]
Hope Mission School: Project Dedication
The Voss Foundation’s project at the Hope Mission School near Paynesville, Liberia, implemented in partnership with FACE Africa and funded by the Women Helping Women New York 2011 campaign, was formally dedicated on Monday, December 12, 2011, with the keys turned over to the school and community! The project achieved its goal to bring improved [...]
Updates from Kenya: Swari, Latakwen, Nyiroyia, and future projects!
Update from Swari: The local government recently built a new hospital in Swari, where we completed our first water project in Kenya in 2009. The hospital structure has just been completed, and we hope access to clean water onsite will continue to foster infrastructure development in the area. One year after our project implementation, the government [...]
Paynesville Project: Final Report
Our 2011 Women Helping Women water project in Liberia is complete! Thanks to all of your efforts, we have been able to work with FACE Africa to build a life-altering water system at the Hope Mission School in the Bernard Farm Community of Paynesville, Liberia. The water system is comprised of a hand-dug well with [...]
WHW NY Luncheon 2011 Recap
Over 125 women came together for our second annual Women Helping Women New York Luncheon on November 2nd at the 3 West Club at Rockefeller Center. Emmy-Award winning journalist and Executive Editor of Africa.com, Jacqueline Adams, served as Master of Ceremonies; while our 2010 WHW honoree Noella Coursaris could not attend, a representative from her [...]
African Bazaar
Still thinking about that colorful kikoy from Kenya? Or the beautiful handmade leather and bone necklaces from Mali? How about the gorgeous malachite dishes from the DR Congo? You can still get them! Visit our online African Bazaar to purchase the gifts you missed out on at the Women Helping Women New York Luncheon! The [...]
Why Women Helping Women?
“I believe in helping women to be empowered to make a difference in women’s lives — and have them impact others’ lives.” Music to the Voss Foundation’s ears! In a recent meeting, Women Helping Women New York members met at the offices of STC Associates, our pro-bono PR and social media angels who so kindly [...]
Hope Mission School: Project Description
We are proud to announce our newest Women Helping Women project at the Hope Mission School in the Bernard Farm Community of Paynesville, Liberia. The Voss Foundation is partnering with FACE Africa to bring two institutional latrines, two handwashing stations and one hand dug well to the students of the Hope Mission School and the [...]
Samburu Accounting 101
Sustainability and community empowerment are of utmost importance to the Voss Foundation; every single one of our projects aims to make sure our beneficiaries can take ownership of and maintain their own wells and water systems after implementation is complete. One way we achieve this is by encouraging villages to enact a very small water [...]
Swari Project: Update and Lesson Learned!
Our president and founder, Knut Brundtland, and our European Representative, Cecilie Malm Brundtland, just came back from a trip to visit our Kenya projects! As soon as they arrived in the Samburu region, they were met by two eldermen who came to say hello and thank Voss Foundation for our work — the first time [...]
Save the Date: November 2nd – Women Helping Women New York Luncheon 2011
The Voss Foundation invites you to join us for the second annual Women Helping Women New York luncheon on Wednesday, November 2nd, 11:30AM – 1:30PM. is an international grassroots campaign that began in Norway in 2009. Since then, WHW has brought together to raise over $125,000 for clean water projects in Kenya and the Democratic [...]
Ndonyo Nasipa Project: Final Report
It’s been less than a year since the completion of our second Women Helping Women project, but access to clean water has already had an incredible impact on the Ndonyo Nasipa community. The community’s women and girls, who were burdened daily with the task of carrying water, have especially benefited from the new well. The [...]
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 [...]
Women Helping Women Boston
The first Women Helping Women event in Boston was a success! An enthusiastic crowd came out, despite the storm, to the reception at Woodward at Ames to support the campaign and to meet the 2011 Women Helping Women honoree, Saran Kaba Jones (above). Saran is the founder of FACE Africa, our implementing partner for the [...]
2011 Women Helping Women Honoree
We are happy to announce our 2011 Women Helping Women Honoree, Saran Kaba Jones, founder of FACE Africa! FACE Africa will be our partner on the ground in Liberia for the 2011 Women Helping Women water project, and Saran will be honored at our upcoming Women Helping Women events in Boston and New York. Although [...]
Women Helping Women Boston: June 9, 2011
Purchase your tickets online Please join us for the first Women Helping Women event in Boston on June 9! Tickets are available online. The reception will run from 6-8PM at Woodward at Ames. Voss Foundation’s Women Helping Women campaign is an international fundraising effort of over 300 women in 8 countries funding their own water [...]
Swari Project: Update
It’s been over a year since the opening of the water system in Swari, and we have some great news on our continuing success from our friends and partners at Milgis Trust: Currently in construction in Swari is a new health clinic funded by the government. This clinic would not have gone ahead without the [...]
VIDEO: Samburu woman thanks Voss Foundation
A Samburu woman thanks our Women Helping Women delegation at the opening of our most recent Ndonyo Nasipa well in Kenya. In the Samburu language, “thank you” is “ashauling” and “water” is “ngare” — if you listen closely, can you hear her say those words?
VIDEO: Walk to the Well: Women Helping Women – Ndonyo Nasipa opening trip
A delegation of Samburu women lead some of our Women Helping Women donors to the water opening ceremony at Ndonyo Nasipa:
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, [...]
Women Helping Women: New York Luncheon
Yesterday over 100 women gathered for an intimate lunch at New York’s 3 West Club to support the Voss Foundation’s Women Helping Women campaign. Women Helping Women, an international fundraising effort of the Voss Foundation, funds water projects and well development within villages in Sub-Saharan Africa. This fundraiser, in conjunction with Voss Foundation’s European Women [...]
Women Helping Women: Oslo evening
On October 21st, a number of the Voss Foundation’s European Women Helping Women supporters gathered at Blomqvist Kunsthandel in Oslo. Former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik spoke to the women about the political situation in Kenya today, which was very interesting. Attendees were also very lucky to have Dr. Anders R Seim to [...]
