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Local Community Engagement 2021-12-17

Last Community Grants of 2021 awarded

This year's last Community Engagement Grants were awarded at the board meeting on 10 December. 8 local Grundfos projects received funding at a combined worth of 3.5 m DKK. The Foundation is particularly happy to see more engagement by Grundfos employees in the projects.
News 2021-12-06

INTO DUST now available for free streaming on WaterBear

The Grundfos Foundation sponsored film will be available in 194 countries for free viewing on the WaterBear platform.
News 2021-11-30

We’re looking for interns

We are searching for two interns to join us from February 2022 - one Strategy Intern and one Communication Intern - to help the Foundation fight Climate, Water, and Social injustice on a global scale. 
Local Community Engagement 2021-11-19

Abomosu cares about toilets

Life without a toilet is dirty, dangerous and undignified, something that the citizens of Abomosu can relate to. The sanitation in the community deteriorated because their public toilet had broken down. Luckily, the community now has access to improved toilet facilities.
News 2021-11-12

2021 Grundfos Prize Student Award

At the Grundfos Prize ceremony on 11 November, three talented Grundfos students were rewarded for their contributions to Grundfos: Søren Thalund, Bartosz Kurkiewicz, and Jakob Vester Nielsen each receive DKK 25,000.
News 2021-11-11

2021 Grundfos Prize to bioinformatics researcher

Today, Professor MSO Mads Albertsen, Aalborg University, Chemistry and BioScience, is awarded the 2021 Grundfos Prize at the Grundfos Center in Bjerringbro. The prize consists of DKK 1 million, of which DKK 750,000 is a grant for further research.
Safe Water for Northern Burundi (closed) 2021-10-15

2021 Global Handwashing Day

October 15 is Global Handwashing Day, dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives.
Local Community Engagement 2021-10-11

11 new community engagement grants awarded

The Grundfos Foundation has awarded 11 new community engagement grants for local projects in California, Colombia, Denmark, Uganda, Ghana, Cameroon, Argentina and Tanzania.
Water dowsing with science 2021-09-17

tTEM research paper published

Results from tTEM surveys conducted in two refugee camps and several host communities in western Tanzania demonstrate the capability of the method to characterize shallow aquifer systems with high lateral and vertical resolution, with data collection typically exceeding 15 to 20 line-kilometers (km) per day.
Low Cost Sanitation and Water Model in Pakistan 2021-09-07

Honouring Perween Rahman’s legacy

Set in Karachi, Pakistan, the drama documentary Into Dust follows social activist, Perween Rahman, who worked tirelessly to protect Pakistan’s poorest communities, and her older sister, Aquila Ismail, who honours her sister’s legacy by fighting for her justice.
Disaster
response 2021-08-27

USD 157,000 for disaster relief in Haiti

The Grundfos Foundation has released a grant from its disaster response reserve to support Water Mission's disaster relief efforts in Haiti.
Low Cost Sanitation and Water Model in Pakistan 2021-08-24

INTO DUST highlights the global water crisis

The Grundfos Foundation is proud to present INTO DUST, a drama-documentary that tells the extraordinary story of Perween Rahman, a woman who sacrificed everything to provide Karachi's poorest communities with clean, safe water.