The Water Tower Achechigon Built
When we arrived to the village of Achechigon, Benin, we were surprised not to see a traditional hand pump in the village. Instead, we saw this imposing concrete structure with a window on its side, two spouts coming out at the top front and two taps at the bottom. There were a handful of people lining up and getting ready to […]
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GAiN Partners With Global Affairs Canada On $4.2 Million Project
We are partnering with Global Affairs Canada to reduce the mortality rate of women and children, improve access to clean water, provide training in healthy practices and gender sensitivity, and increase absorption and consumption of nutritious foods by mothers, pregnant women, newborns and children under the age of five in Benin and Togo. On Wednesday, […]
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Dinner is served with an informative experience
Food nourishes, satiates and brings people together. It did all that and more on April 9 and 10, when hobby chefs Tim Lee and Elaine Cheng hosted a dinner fundraiser in Vancouver, B.C., as part of DinnerPartyYVR and Social Bites, which had guests leaving with more than just full stomachs. Lee, the Associate Director of GAiN’s Water […]
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2016 DinnerPartyYVR – Elaine Cheng
Not many people can say that they have fed 5,000 people, for free, in the course of one-and-a-half hours. But Elaine Cheng can. The best (and worst) part? The meals were prepared using only food that would have otherwise ended up at the landfill. This year, as a part of DinnerPartyYVR, Elaine and her partner […]
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Puddle to Pump
Imagine if the only way you could access water was to dig holes in a swamp and wait all night for water to seep in? This was the reality of women in the village of Mwandila, Tanzania. Waiting to fill a bucket of water often required sleeping by the hole all night long so that they would have something to bring home […]
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In Word and Deed
In November 2015, our GAiN Water for Life Initiative Team visited Ethiopia and brought back good news from a poor, remote village in the dry region of Southern Ethiopia – Ame Serba. A newly-drilled deep-capped well had been finished and the team was there for the dedication. Almost the whole village of goat and cattle herders turned […]
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Multiple Needs Met in Namauni
The village of Namauni, located in Tanzania, was able to build a teachers house at the school with the coming of the deep-capped water well. The school and teacher’s buildings were constructed with small clay bricks, but there were no water sources anywhere near the school, which made construction difficult and costly. With the well […]
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Multiple Needs Met in Namauni
The village of Namauni, located in Tanzania, was able to build a teachers house at the school with the coming of the deep-capped water well. The school and teacher’s buildings were constructed with small clay bricks, but there were no water sources anywhere near the school, which made construction difficult and costly. With the well […]
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More Than Just Clean Water
The village of Rweje in Tanzania had the most number of buckets and jerry cans lined up at a water well that our Water for LIfe Initiative team had ever seen. In fact, they lost count after 200! It turns out that four villages were getting clean water from this one well. Because there were so many […]
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3 reasons to help provide clean water
Hawa Guyo of Melbena, Ethiopia is a mother who always carried two children (one in the front and one on her back) as she walked walk eight hours a day to fetch water. Upon arrival…the water was extremely dirty. People and animals used it at the same time. The donkeys and other animals urinated in […]
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