POUL DUE JENSEN FOUNDATION WATER Partner days: Collecting water in real life: One team carried water from a lake, the other moved by connecting a solar powered water system. Who, do you think, had the hardest time? Photo: Poul Due Jensen Foundation for the people that we, and the foundation, work with. The partner event was a great opportunity to see this in action: engaging with not just the Poul Due Jensen team but with other partners,” says Paul. And he continues: “The three of us who attended from Practical Action learnt a lot from Grundfos staff and other partners – solar pumping options, cost recovery models, and community management approaches – but we also made some great contacts for future collaboration and problem solving.” Another partner, Sunlit Future from India, is one of our technically skilled partners within solar technology. Representatives were also positive about the partnership approach: “The Foundation’s focus is water and our focus is the sun and this partnership has got these two elements of sun and water in a perfect tango to provide water in the remotest villages in India using solar energy and Grundfos pumps in a win-win manner, and most of all the 30,000 beneficiaries,” says Rishi Kapoor, Executive, Sunlit Future. “Our experience with the Foundation has been great. During the partnership days, meeting up with the heart and brains of the Foundation and Grundfos engineers was a real treat, as it helped us solve some of the most challenging issues we were facing regarding pump and water in Spiti Valley in the Himalayas (4500 m above main sea level). Future collaboration The foundation sees the partners as the tool to reach out to the real beneficiaries of our projects: the people who live in forgotten refugee camps and remote areas. Therefore, we will continue our journey with our partners. We want our water strategy to be more than words on a piece of paper. Our philanthropic work directly supports UN Global Goal 6.1 by providing sustainable and affordable access to safe drinking water to the world’s poorest, and we believe in the setup we have to contribute to this goal. 11
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