gruNDfos EmployEEs hElp rElIEvE worlD watEr shortagE At Grundfos, the employee programme Water2Life is attracting attention to the challenges faced as regarding water and guaranteeing basic living conditions for some of the poorest people in the world. employees at Grundfos are taking the world’s water challenges seriously and are actively getting involved in the battle to secure clean water to people in the north of kenya. water2Life is giving employees the opportunity to make a real difference and take responsibility. water2Life is the employee programme at Grundfos in which employee volunteer to help out with activities and information work in their local company and raise donations to help provide poor people with clean water. so far employees have collected funding for ten water systems, guaranteeing thousands of kenyans clean water. “water2life gives me – as well as every other employee at Grundfos – the opportunity to make a good deed at my daily work. By observing the development of the villages after the installation of the water supply systems, one could tell that water2Life is not only about donating money but rather to create synergy effects. people get access to clean water and will be enabled to use it in an economic way. i’m glad to be part of this initiative,” says christine weber, active Ten water systems in two years The water2Life employee programme got off the ground in June 2010. The aim of the programme was to install ten Grundfos Lifelink water systems in selected villages in kenya by the end of 2012. Grundfos employees from all over the world have “water2Life supports the Grundfos values of sustainable development, focus on people, global thinking, responsibility and build on our own company competences. i am very proud that Grundfos employees have already achieved so much with water2Life. it demonstrates the huge commitment of many of our employees and a strong desire to make a difference for the poor people of the world, helping to resolve the enormous challenges on water,” says carsten Bjerg, Group president at Grundfos. member of water2Life in aLd Grundfos water Treatment GmbH in Germany. been collecting money for ten water systems. Given its major success with this collection water2Life will be extending its efforts to Vietnam in 2013. Vital cooperation water2Life works together with the red cross in the villages in which the water systems are being set up. This cooperation is absolutely essential to ensure the success of the projects. clean water is not valuable if it is poured into a dirty container, for example. This is why the red cross is talking to the people living in the villages and making sure that they are ready to use the water system. among other things, the red cross is recruiting voluntary hygiene instructors in each village and teaching them about handling water correctly, good hygiene practice, hygiene-related diseases and waterborne diseases. “Our cooperation with the red cross is part of the actual foundation for the success of the project. They have unique local knowledge and resources that ensure that people in a vulnerable situation can have something as fundamental to life as clean water,” says Vibeke Tuxen, programme coordinator for water2Life. Please turn page 24/ ceO waTer mandaTe 2012 ceO waTer mandaTe 2012 / 25
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