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Funding
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$36,281 (%)
As of Feb 13 02:57 2012
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Theme:
Environment
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Sponsor: CHF International
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Project duration: Ongoing
Project's area of focus: Water Resource Development
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Communities worldwide depend on water for survival, yet more than 1 billion people lack proper access to clean drinking water. Impacting health, food, climate, transportation and local markets, inadequate water resources and their management can lead to disease, malnutrition, poor economic growth and conflict. Ethiopia’s central areas are drought-prone, and inefficient use of fuel has depleted available resources, creating a chronic water crisis for more than 14 million Ethiopians.
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CHF's programs in Ethiopia are training women about proper hygiene and water usage, fostering effective usage and management through local associations, and building infrastructure such as deep-wells, hand-dug wells, and rehabilitated springs. |
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Better water usage can improve the environmental conditions that cause drought. Access to clean drinking water frees the women and children, who are forced to carry water from distant sources, to pursue education and income-generating activities. |
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In the past we had to walk for 4 hours to get water and we still never had enough. Now we have water to drink, water to wash with, time to take our children to school, and finally time to weave again.
- (Anonymous), CHF beneficiary
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Lori Goldhammer,
8601 Georgia Ave
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Ethiopia
011-(251)-11-6636335
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CHF International's mission is to be a catalyst for long-lasting positive change in low- and moderate-income communities around the world, helping them to improve their social, economic and environmental conditions.
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The Cooperative Housing Foundation—now known simply as CHF International—serves more than 20 million people each year, empowering them to improve their lives and livelihoods for a better future. CHF currently has programs in more than 25 countries around the world, across Asia, Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, Europe & the Caucasus, and the Middle East. Programs address economic development, community revitalization, microfinance and job creation, conflict mitigation, and other issues.
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Michael E. Doyle,
CEO and President
Founded in 1952
Employees: 2500
Volunteers: 30
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Other funding sources: United States Government and other governments, Multi-laterals, Bi-laterals, Foundations and Corporations
Religious Affiliation: N/A
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Brannon Brewer is CHF International's Country Director stationed in Ethiopia where he is overseeing a range of programs being implemented there to assist thousands of rural families in Ethiopia's drought-prone central districts.
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