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Water-resilient cities of the future

With funding from the Grundfos Foundation, the C40 network (96 global megacities committed to fighting climate change) will develop state-of-the-art research on and solutions to urban water-related risks, helping cities adapt to the impacts of climate change and move towards a sustainable and water-resilient future.
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Disaster
response

In the wake of a natural disaster, the Foundation can quickly reach out via our partners to help the victims with emergency safe water supplies. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Foundation has expanded its donations to emergencies in 2020.
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Host communities in Western Tanzania

Nyarugusu Refugee Camp encompasses a huge area in Western Tanzania. All around it, smaller host communities are scattered. Inside the camp, you find all sorts of provisions that the host communities don’t necessarily have access to. With this project, we seek to address some of the political discussions that follow when international aid and resources pass through poor communities to be distributed within the camp.
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Water for pastoralist communities in Turkana

Together with Practical Action, we will help 72,000 people in pastoralist communities in north west Kenya access drinking water for themselves and for their livestock. The programme will also strengthen water governance and management systems for rural solar-powered water systems, including already existing Practical Action projects.
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Sustainable water access for pastoralist communities

Together with the Poul Due Jensen Foundation, Practical Action will use a little ingenuity to improve access to drinking water for 72,000 of Kenya's most marginalised people.
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Southeast Asia Clean Water Initiative

In Indonesia, the Foundation has worked with Water Mission since 2010 to reach out to very isolated communities.
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Combating arsenic poisoning in Nepal

Together with Oxfam GB, the Poul Due Jensen Foundation is working to provide safe water access to 9,657 people in Pidari Village and Fatuha Maheshpur in the Terai lowlands of Nepal, while crucially exploring innovative management models to ensure these systems are sustainable and financially viable to keep water flowing for years to come.
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Kenya 23 – next level

Besides reaching out to rural Kenyans, the Foundation wishes to bring facts to the table in the discussions on effects of groundwater pumping.
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Safe water and sanitation in Togo

Together with PlanBørnefonden, the Poul Due Jensen Foundation provides safe water to villages in the Plateaux Region in Togo in West Africa.
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Safe water to Mozambique

This safe water programme will help more than 75,000 people gain direct access to safe water. 57,000 will benefit from solar pump technology.
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Safe Water for Northern Burundi

Together with Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), we work to provide access to safe drinking water for up to 54,000 people in Kirundo Province in Northern Burundi
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Safe water to Malawi

This partnership programme will bring solar powered safe drinking water to more than 20,000 people in four communities in Malawi, served by an expected 8 boreholes under the umbrella of Practical Action’s Sustainable Energy for Rural Communities (SE4RC) programme.