Children's Safe Drinking Water

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  • From Despair to Hope among the Maasai
  • The Maasai of Tanzania
  • CSDW Honored with 2009 Humanitarian Award by Action Against Hunger.
  • Food for the Hungry’s Good Water Program in Maru, Kenya and Budding Romance
  • Working with Project HOPE in Korangi
  • Mama Juliana, Mzungu, and an Elder Water Giver
  • Providing water to displaced people in Pakistan
  • PSI and FHI Providing Safe Drinking Water for Families with HIV/AIDS
  • PUR where it’s really needed in Ethiopia
  • Committing to 4 Billion Liters of Clean Water with President Bill Clinton and Celebrating Success

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From Despair to Hope among the Maasai

Mom and Baby 2 I’m back  with the Maasai prior to the Summit on the Summit Kilimanjaro.  Our work here will continue long after the climb of Mt Kilimanjaro has come and gone, but it will be great to help put a focus on the global water crisis and the practical and cost-effective solutions to address the crisis by bringing Jessica Biel, Kenna, Alexandra Cousteau, Isabel Lucas, Kick Kennedy, and the other climbers to this village.

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December 03, 2009 in Africa | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Maasai of Tanzania

Maasai girl 2 I’m in Tanzania visiting several new programs in the shadow of Mt. Kilimanjaro.  I'll be returning to Tanzania with Jessica Biel, Kenna, Alexandra Cousteau, Isabel Lucas, Kick Kennedy and the rest of the Summit on the Summit climbers  in January.

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November 25, 2009 in Africa | Permalink | Comments (0)

CSDW Honored with 2009 Humanitarian Award by Action Against Hunger.

Yabsira with PUR 2 The P&G Children's Safe Drinking Water program was honored with the 2009 Humanitarian Award from Action Against Hunger.  You may have heard of this well-known humanitarian group by their French name,  Action contre la Faim, or ACF.

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November 23, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)

Food for the Hungry’s Good Water Program in Maru, Kenya and Budding Romance

Evans Mwiti and Brenda Gatwiri smiling with PUR 2I leave Nairobi early in the morning to travel to Meru, Kenya.  We crawl through traffic in downtown Nairobi in the morning rush hour and then past the industrial area of Thika.  The countryside opens up after about an hour to reveal the farm lands.  Then we drop down a plateau to a low lying area that’s full of luscious green rice fields for as far as the eye can see.  After another hour, we can see majestic Mt Kenya in the distance.  By about five hours, we reach our destination of Meru, in the shadow of Mt Kenya.

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November 20, 2009 in Africa | Permalink | Comments (2)

Working with Project HOPE in Korangi

During Keith’s August trip to Pakistan, he also visited with one of our social market partners in Karachi.  The guest blog entry below, describes his visit with Project HOPE to see their Children’s Safe Drinking Water work in Korangi.

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November 16, 2009 in Pakistan | Permalink | Comments (1)

Mama Juliana, Mzungu, and an Elder Water Giver

Dam Greg Mama Juliana Sidi and Mzungu 2 I’m in coastal Kenya with World Vision to help kick-off a program to provide the PUR packets in schools and communities in four of World Vision’s area development programs (ADPs).  We’ve had success with World Vision in providing PUR to school children in Malawi and now are expanding that work to Kenya.  Of course, we’ve also had success with World Vision in responding to emergencies in Asia and Africa.  We’re providing PUR now in Indonesia with World Vision in response to the earthquake.  And, we responded to save lives in Zimbabwe during the cholera outbreak.  World Vision recently ran an article on their home page to talk about our partnership.  To view the World Vision article about the P&G collaboration follow the link to their website, click on “World Vision News” and then “A Partnership to Fight Cholera”.  World Vision also shared the attached video to thank P&G for our partnership following my visit to Zimbabwe.(link to video)

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November 13, 2009 in Africa | Permalink | Comments (1)

Providing water to displaced people in Pakistan

Introduction:
Keith Zook, my good friend and long time second in command on P&G’s Children’s Safe Drinking Water program, traveled to Pakistan in August to work with our production plant and social market and disaster relief partners.  This blog entry describes his visits with two of our partners, World Vision and HOPE, that are providing water to displaced people in Pakistan.  Drinking water is critical to these populations as they are forced to move into formal camps, homes and other temporary housing.  In these crowded situations, drinking water many times becomes a major avenue of disease transmission.  The use of PUR packets helps avoid this disease and improves the quality of life of the people.

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November 09, 2009 in Pakistan | Permalink | Comments (2)

PSI and FHI Providing Safe Drinking Water for Families with HIV/AIDS

Abigail and demo 2 We’ve learned that safe drinking water is critical for people who have HIV/AIDS because they are prone to opportunistic infections from contaminated water that can make them persistently sick and can be fatal.  When an adult is sick or dies from HIV/AIDS, it takes a horrible toll on the children who are more likely to not attend school, more likely to be sick, and even more likely to die. 

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November 06, 2009 in Africa | Permalink | Comments (0)

PUR where it’s really needed in Ethiopia

Yabsira before and after 2 I’m in eastern Ethiopia with Henock Gazahegn of PSI.  PSI is doing a great job here in providing safe drinking water with the PUR packets.  We recognized PSI at the Clinton Global Initiative with the Live, Learn and Thrive Partnership Award for providing more than 200 million liters of clean drinking water in Ethiopia and thereby preventing millions of days of diarrheal illness and saving thousands of lives.

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October 30, 2009 in Africa | Permalink | Comments (0)

Committing to 4 Billion Liters of Clean Water with President Bill Clinton and Celebrating Success

Dimitri and Clinton at plenary 2

We just participated in the 5th Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and made our biggest commitment ever.  P&G, through our Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program, is committed to providing 4 billion liters of safe drinking water in the developing world by 2012.  This will prevent an estimated 160 million days of diarrheal illness and save 20,000 lives.  As part of this commitment, we’ll also launched a number of initiatives to raise awareness of the global water crisis and these will reach at least 300 million households. 

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September 30, 2009 in Clinton Global Initiative | Permalink | Comments (2)

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