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Water 2025-09-01

Urban water challenges

The world’s major urban areas face severe water-related challenges today and exponentially in the foreseeable future. Vulnerable communities disproportionately feel the effects. With a focus on the intersection of water and climate change, we will provide scalable solutions to water challenges in the world’s major urban areas, particularly in the developing world.
Water 2025-04-08

Home-Grown School Feeding

Improving Local Food Systems in East Africa using Schools as Catalytic Platforms
Water 2023-11-28

Kenya Refugee Alliance

The Grundfos Foundation pledges 59m DKK (USD 8.7 million) to a pilot flagship program in Kenya focusing on creating pathways for refugee inclusion to promote lasting solutions. This will be in conjunction with the already progressive approach taken by the Government of Kenya, including the newly adopted Refugee Act.
Water 2022-12-07

Disaster
response

In the wake of a disaster, the Foundation can quickly reach out via our partners to help the victims. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the Foundation has expanded its donations to emergencies.
Water 2022-06-13

Project Flow

With Project Flow, UNHCR is pioneering a smarter way to solarize diesel-run water systems while cutting costs, reducing emissions, and improving daily life for people forced to flee and their hosting communities.
Water 2022-03-18

100 pumps for 100 villages

In most safe water projects, a development NGO will buy in a technical solution through a subcontractor, but in India, we’ve turned the relationship upside down as we work directly with a technology provider.
Water 2022-01-13

Water in Communications

Water in Communications is a programme of events designed to give communicators the knowledge and skills they need to reach a wider audience and empower people to make better decisions about water.
Water 2021-04-10

Water2Nepal

Water2Nepal is a State-of-the-Art project improving life standards in Nepal by bringing a strong innovative partnership (Grundfos, Kamstrup, AVK, Aarhus Vand, Oxfam, Kathmandu University, Madi Municipality and User Committee, EnviDan and Jysk landsbyudvikling i Nepal, tapping right into the ideas and setup of Water Valley Denmark), technology, solutions, and competences to Nepal.
Water 2021-03-22

Water for Kigoma Region

In partnership with UNICEF, the Foundation will bring access to clean drinking water to almost 200,000 people in 31 rural communities in Western Tanzania's Kigoma Region.
Water 2020-09-23

Water and sanitation for Gambella (SunWASH)

In collaboration with PlanBørnefonden and the American NGO Water Mission, the Poul Due Jensen Foundation will ensure a stable and safe water supply, as well as the establishment of sanitation and hygiene training for over 118,500 people in several refugee camps in the Gambella Region in Ethiopia.
Water 2020-09-11

Low Cost Sanitation and Water Model in Pakistan

Through Orangi Pilot Project Research and Training Institute, the Foundation is funding extension of water and sewerage lines in poor, underserved settlements in cities across Pakistan.
Water 2019-08-22

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.