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Sustainable Water Services 2024-08-25

Kigoma partnership enters the 2024 World Water Week

At 2024 World Water Week in Stockholm , the Grundfos Foundation shines a light on its important partnership with UNICEF and Water Mission in Western Tanzania’s Kigoma Region through an interactive photo exhibition.
Disaster
response 2024-08-09

Grundfos Foundation Leads the Way in Supporting UNICEF’s Efforts in Sudan

Escalating conflict has pushed Sudan to the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe, with the threat of famine looming. As the first Danish foundation, Grundfos Foundation is supporting UNICEF's humanitarian efforts in this hard-hit country in Northeast Africa.
Local Community Engagement 2024-07-15

SOSNPO kicks off PITSTOP! project in South Africa

With a Community Engagement Grant from the Grundfos Foundation, the groundbreaking PITSTOP! project sets out to eradicate illegal pit latrines and upgrade ablution facilities in underserved communities, providing safe and hygienic sanitation solutions.
Local Community Engagement 2024-07-05

17 new Community Engagement Grants to support local projects

The Grundfos Foundation grants EUR 1.1 million to 17 local projects benefitting people, planet, and people all over the world.
Disaster
response 2024-06-11

Water Mission awarded grant supporting disaster response readiness

The Foundation has provided a DKK 5 million ($725,000 USD) grant to Water Mission, a Christian engineering nonprofit. The grant will support the continued expansion of Water Mission’s disaster response program with an emphasis on improving readiness and capacity to quickly and efficiently respond to multiple disasters simultaneously.
Sustainable Water Services 2024-05-28

Denmark, Kenya, and Three Philanthropic Foundations Shape the Future of Refugee Aid

Two out of three refugees experience prolonged humanitarian crises lasting several years, often even decades. Meanwhile, refugee camps have traditionally been designed and run as temporary solutions for acute crises. A new partnership between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the LEGO Foundation, Novo Nordisk Foundation, and Grundfos Foundation supports Kenya's ambitions to move away from a temporary approach, benefiting both refugees and local communities.
Water Technology Research 2024-05-15

Sediment removal technology with minimal disturbance of lake ecosystems

Traditionally, reduction of phosphorus in lakes has been achieved by either digging up the sediment or by adding aluminium, which binds the phosphorus. Both are radical interventions that can have a negative effect on a lake’s ecosystem.
News 2024-04-24

Liv and Anne from Egå Gymnasium will compete in the 2024 Stockholm Junior Water Prize

In an exciting science project, Anne Gammelmark Therkildsen and Liv Kanstrup Arami from Egå Gymnasium have described the possibilities of making plants salt tolerant so they can be irrigated with saline water and we can make crops less vulnerable to coastal flooding. Therefore, the Foundation sends the group to Stockholm in August, where they will compete in the Stockholm Junior Water Prize together with young people from all over the world.
Local Community Engagement 2024-04-18

10 new Community Engagement Grants granted

Almost EUR 530,000 are on their way to projects around the world, where Grundfos employees support local organisations through volunteering. In Chile, victims of the recent forest fire can look forward to a helping hand.
News 2024-04-15

SOS Children’s Villages Denmark gathers coalition of partners to build low-carbon housing for children without parental care in Ukraine

SOS Children’s Villages Denmark (SOS DK) has initiated a new project to help reform the childcare system in Ukraine in partnership with SOS Children’s Villages Ukraine (SOS UA), the Villum Foundation, Viessmann Foundation, Grundfos Foundation, Bitten & Mads Clausen Foundation, the VELUX Group, Somfy Foundation, DOVISTA, Flügger, VELUX Ukraine, Kromann Reumert and the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO).
News 2024-04-02

Water supply in Nepal: building better, more sustainable services

Nepal’s former Water Supply Minister backs Oxfam' Water Supply Management Board as an alternate management system for Water Supply Systems in Rural Nepal.
Sustainable Water Services 2024-03-22

Joining hands to transform lives through provision of clean drinking water

Life in Kaguruka village has drastically changed for schools, health facilities, households, and children who have access to clean drinking water. This has especially lifted the burden off women carrying water for long distances and reduced the financial strain caused by excessive medical expenses. The time previously spent fetching water is now being used by parents to focus on other income-gaining opportunities.