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Foundation awards three grants for water wells in developing countries (April 19, 2011)

(WESTERVILLE, OH — April 19, 2011) Three grants totaling $20,000 have been awarded to help build and restore drinking water wells in Uganda and Kosovo, the National Ground Water Research and Educational Foundation (NGWREF) announced today.

The three grant recipients and award amounts are:

Atkinson Foundation/Family Empowerment Uganda (FEM), $6,000
Committee on Foreign Missions for the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Nakaale Station, Uganda, $8,000
Water for Life, Tushile Safe Water Project, $6,000.

The Atkinson Foundation/FEM project seeks to install a high-capacity water well and solar pumping system at the FEM Canaan Farm in Rakayata Village, Masindi, Uganda, to help 150 survivors of civil war who are trying to rebuild their lives. The NGWREF grant will help to pay a portion of the overall project cost of $27,000.

Situated in northeast Uganda, the Nakaale Station project by the Committee on Foreign Missions for the Orthodox Presbyterian Church involves installing wells in four villages to serve up to 5,000 people. At present the people in these villages get their drinking water from polluted water in rivers, creeks. and swamps.

The Tushile Safe Water Project developed by Water for Life will serve 800 villagers in Kosovo by capping 150 open wells to protect them from contamination, installing pumps in the wells, and cleaning up sources of pollution.

“Thousands of people in these war-torn, impoverished counties will benefit from the safe drinking water that these projects will provide. For some, especially children under the age of five, these projects are a matter of life and death,” said Steve Schneider, MGWC and NGWREF president. “It was for projects such as these that the Foundation created its Developing World Projects Fund.”

Read more about NGWREF, as well as the Developing World Projects Fund.

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NGWREF is operated by the National Ground Water Association as a 501(c)(3) public foundation focused on conducting educational, research, and other charitable activities related to a broader public understanding of groundwater.

NGWA, a nonprofit organization composed of more than 12,000 U.S. and international groundwater professionals — contractors, equipment manufacturers, suppliers, scientists, and engineers — is dedicated to advancing groundwater knowledge. NGWA’s vision is to be the leading groundwater association that advocates the responsible development, management, and use of water.

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