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The Ann Campana Judge Foundation

 

The Ann Campana Judge Foundation promotes, undertakes, supports and funds hydrophilanthropic projects in and relating to Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama, especially those projects focused on water, health, and sanitation. The foundation will conduct projects on its own, but grants will also be made both to individuals and other nonprofit organizations. Hydrophilanthropic projects of the following types will be supported by the ACJ Foundation: (a) community water supply development, (b) community sanitation/health and related projects, and (c) projects designed to foster community-level economic self-sufficiency.
 

Charity: Water

 

Charity: Water's mission is to provide clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. Charity: Water grants 100 percent of all public donations to its field partners for water and sanitation projects. It currently has 23 implementing partners in 16 countries and, to date, has implemented 2,321 water projects serving more than 1,048,309 people. In three years, it has creatively and effectively spread the message about the billion people living without access to safe drinking water.
 

Clear Blue Global Water Project

330 644.3937
www.clearblueproject.com

 

Established in 2006, Clear Blue Global Water Project has brought clean water to Cambodia, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Iraq, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Philippines, Tanzania, and Uganda. Clear Blue Global Water Project depends on donations and encourages everyone to start their own local collection for this mission.

 

Contact: Daniel Stellar, Assistant Director

500 W. 120th St., S.W. Mudd Rm. 842

New York, NY 10027

212 854.1695

fax 212 854.7081

 

Columbia Water Center's mission is to creatively tackle the issue of global water scarcity through innovations in technology, public policy, and private action. Combining the rigor of scientific research with the impact of effective policy, the center aims to design reliable, sustainable models of water management and development that can be implemented on local, regional, and global levels.

EDGE OUTREACH

Contact: Mike Turvey
PO Box 3134
Shawnee, KS 66203
cleanwater2020@gmail.com
www.flowingstreamsministries.org

 

Flowing Streams Ministries directs monthly donations to a different Christian water-related nonprofit each month. A variety of organizations have been selected to receive the funds, most of whom drill wells as a part of their ministry. Some organizations selected provide water treatment technologies, such as biosand filters, to their countries of service.
 

Contact: Ted Kuepper
Water Supply Projects
3600 S. Harbor Blvd., #514
Oxnard, CA 93035
805 985.3057
fax 805 965.3688
info@globalwater.org
www.globalwater.org

 

Global Water is based upon the belief that the lack of access to safe drinking water is the primary cause of hunger, disease, and poverty throughout the world. Founded in 1982, Global Water is an international nonprofit humanitarian organization focused on providing safe water supplies, sanitation facilities, and hygiene-related facilities for rural villagers in developing countries. Global Water projects utilize water and sanitation as tools to create sustainable socioeconomic development in poor rural communities.
 

Contact: Patty Hall

5527 Hugo Rd.

White Bear Lake, MN 55110

651 303.7763

 

H2O for Life provides global partnerships for schools in the United States to help bring water, sanitation, and hygiene education to schools in developing countries. H2O for Life provides a transformational service learning opportunity that changes lives in U.S. classrooms and abroad. Students learn they can make a difference.

 

Contact: Joseph Smith, Director of Operations

455 McNally Dr.

Nashville, TN 37211

615 832.2000

 

Established in 1993, Healing Hands International's mission is to save lives and relieve suffering through the distribution of humanitarian aid in order to bring hope to all people. Since their founding, HHI has drilled potable water wells in Honduras, Haiti, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, and Zambia, and is preparing to start a program in Southern Sudan.

 

Integrated Community Development International

 

Established in 2004, Integrated Community Development International's mission is to work to alleviate poverty from the village up in central Africa by empowering and equipping local people with sustainable transformational community development solutions.

 

Living Water International

Contact: Dave Merschman, President

4605 80th Pl.

Urbandale, IA 50322

515 309.4640

fax 515 334.2614

 

Medicine for Mali is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization providing medical, water, education, and public health needs for people in the villages of Mali, West Africa. To date, it has provided clean drinking water to seven villages with a population of nearly 6,000 people. It's installed solar-powered water pumps in each drilled deep well of 35 meters. The system also includes a water tank of 12 to 20 cubic meters and a distribution system of fourt to five faucets and piping from the tank. Depending on the size, each village system costs $50,000 to $72,000 with an expected life of 20 to 25 years. At the highest cost: $72,000 for 7 systems = $504,000. Divided by 6.000 people, the average cost is $84 per person for clean drinking water for 20 years or $4.20 per person per year.

 

Contact: Mark A. Thompson, VP International Programs
PO Box 2020
Lindale, TX 75771
903 939.7695
fax 903 939.7115
mark.thompson@mercyships.org
www.mercyships.org

 

Established in 1978, a part of Mercy Ships' mission is to bring hope and healing to the forgotten poor. Using a deep kick 200 rotary rig, they construct drinking water wells in target region countries of western Africa. Through partnerships with local non-governmental organizations, they provide training equipment, supplies, and project management to see fresh water become accessible to villages and at medical clinic sites.
 

Missions Resource International

 

Missions Resource International is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization working to provide freshwater through means of drilling water wells and other water projects.
 

National Ground Water Research and Educational Foundation

 

PresAid Uganda

Contact: Noel Thomas Kalunda
Wakiso District-Uganda
Kampala, Uganda 256 Uganda
256-702-420-000
fax 256-776-420-001
Administration@PresAIDUganda.org
www.PresAIDUganda.org

PresAIDUganda.org™ partners with leading organizations around the world in order to alleviate poverty and hunger, address AIDs/HIV and other health-related problems, rehabilitate and provide education to vulnerable children, and provide protection and care to our environment. Please browse the Web site and see how you can join this life-saving work of "One Community At A Time."

Rosshirt Water for Africa Foundation Inc.

 

The Rosshirt Water for Africa Foundation Inc. helps to permanently bring clean drinking water in rural areas of Zimbabwe to those who have no local access to clean water. Its efforts and successes depend entirely on donations and volunteers.

 

PO Box 1120
Kemptville, Ontario

Canada K0G 1J0
613 258.6832

fax 613 258.2868
info@ryanswell.ca
www.ryanswell.ca

 

Society for Peace Rural Education & Awareness Development (SPREAD)

Thirst Relief International Inc.

 

Water 4 Kids International

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