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Tagged: Water Services
Opportunity in Somalia
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Posted 5 months ago, updated 5 months ago
Posting this on behalf of a friend. PartnerAid is looking for workers to help with its projects in Somalia. Needs are in WASH, Public Health, Nutrition.
I replied to Kay's thread below about networking in East Africa, but also thought this might be worth a separate topic.
Here's
Water Our Thirsty World traveling to Ethiopia May
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Posted 11 months, 1 week ago, updated 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Hello community~
We are pleased to invite you to our newly launched website www.ourthirstyworld.org
We have 5 targeted water projects for the coming calendar year. (Laos, Thailand, VietNam, Ethiopia and Pakistan. We are now looking for assistance in identifying areas/communities in need of water assistance that Starfish ...
HISG Operations in Pakistan
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Posted 1 year, 5 months ago, updated 1 year, 5 months ago
Quick Update on the Situation:
20,000,000 people impacted, up to 25%
of the country under water,
destruction/elimination of primary
local food supplies (with no change
Disaster Response in Pakistan
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Posted 1 year, 6 months ago, updated 1 year, 6 months ago
We just got a notice from one of our Starfish partners in Pakistan of severe flooding problems in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Local partners are implementing a response initiative on the IDRN.INFO website portal. Please contact David Bopp (DBopp@HISG.org) for more information.
Water Pumps Project - Border of Argentina-Paraguay
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Posted 1 year, 6 months ago
At Mustard Seed Foundation since 2007, we are helping Honey Comb in the Desert, an Argentinean NGO that focuses on native people in South America. We help supporting their annual trip to different areas. In this opportunity, the trip is to a Toba´s Nation tribe, located at Puente Lavalle ...
Disasters in Brazil
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Posted 1 year, 7 months ago, updated 1 year, 6 months ago
Friends,
I received two emails from Margaretha Adiwardana ( meiske@terra.com.br ), our IDR partner in Brazil (please see excerpts below). Any help and support that anyone can provided will be much appreciated:
We are really overloaded now with things to do, it is like two disasters at the same ...
Starfish Expo - North Africa Breakout Session
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Posted 2 years, 3 months ago, updated 1 year, 7 months ago
Norm Brinkley - Session Leader
Subject Matter Experts on North African Region
Yazi
Karen Boyle
Norm Brinkley
Issues -
Water Dams that were created long ago are causing problems with the natural flow of water. Less than 7% of the people in Niger drink clean water and less than 5% have electricity ...
Need Help for Kenya Flooding - Education / Med Supplies
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Posted 1 year, 8 months ago, updated 1 year, 8 months ago
The director of the Regional Disaster Managerment Center in Kenya, Mr. Shem I. Amadi, has said the most helpful things would be education and medical response for the immediate after-affects of this disaster:
Preparation for drought following the floods.
Hygiene & Disease Prevention Curriculum
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Posted 2 years, 3 months ago, updated 1 year, 9 months ago
Grace-Connection has developed a hygiene and disease prevention "train the trainer" teaching system that is designed to empower educators who want to teach WaSH principles to the poorest people groups. This curriculum is focused on people who live in areas with unimproved or slightly improved water. Dirt floor villages.
Drinking water
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Posted 1 year, 10 months ago
Hi all,
Is there any working model for desalinating brackish water into clean drinking water? The communities in many parts of Sidoarjo, Indonesia have water wells that are not fit for consumption. They have to purchase drinking water from other sources. Any disaster outbreak will diminish their survival
