AFFILIATES
The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation is a pan-African organization established and fully funded by The Coca-Cola Company to enable African communities to improve the quality of their lives and fulfill their potential. The Foundation’s focus is in four key areas of intervention: clean water access, preventative health, education and entrepreneurship. Additionally, the Foundation is also involved in humanitarian assistance in Africa, providing disaster relief and emergency assistance in times of civil strife or natural disasters. Through The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation, The Coca-Cola Company partners with various organizations to implement community projects and meet its commitment to sustainability and responsible business practices in Africa and around the world.
Learn more about the Foundation. (http://www.tccaf.org)
The H2O Project was launched in 2001 by Steve and Brenda Koinis a few weeks after Brenda saw a video depicting the removal of a very long guinea worm from a young African boy’s leg. The project’s goal is to raise awareness of the global need for clean water, and to equip the newly aware with a simple tool for making a difference. (Give up your sodas. Save someone’s life!)
The H2O Project does not provide water/drill wells directly, but asks all who participate to send their contributions directly to a water ministry of their choice. Brenda serves as the Project’s executive director, while Steve serves in an advisory capacity. Although many volunteers have come alongside the project from time to time, much of the day-to-day work is done by Trisha Gunter, Assistant Director, and Rachael Howell, Marketing Coordinator. Steve, Brenda, Rachael, and Trisha can all be reached by email.
More information about The H2O Project
Participate with Your Partner in World Water Monitoring Day!
Free water quality test kits available
Each year, tens of thousands of students around the world participate in World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD). Officially observed on September 18 (monitoring may be done anytime from March 22 until December 31), WWMD encourages communities to test their local water resources in order to boost awareness of water quality issues.
An easy-to-use test kit enables people of all ages to monitor a waterway of their choosing for dissolved oxygen, pH, turbidity and temperature. Next, they share the results of their testing with the world via the World Water Monitoring Day website.
In 2009, WWMD is making a special offer to H2O for Life partners in order to encourage them to participate in the program together. For each of the water quality test kits purchased by a U.S.-based H2O for Life partner school, WWMD will donate a test kit to the developing world partner school. To sign-up, simply complete the online form and follow the directions included at the bottom.
Questions about WWMD can be sent to wwmd@wef.org. Additional program resources can be found under the ?Resources? section of the WWMD website? http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org/.
Africare helps Africa. A leader among private, charitable U.S. organizations assisting Africa, Africare is also the oldest and largest African-American led organization in the field — and Africa is Africare’s specialty.
Africare’s programs address needs in three principal areas:
* Health and HIV/AIDS
* Food security and agriculture
* Emergency response
Complementing and extending our work in those focus areas, Africare supports programs in:
* Water resource development
* Environmental management
* Literacy and vocational training
* Microenterprise development
* Civil-society development and governance
Visit www.africare.org to find out more.
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