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Sumner M. Redstone Foundation and the Kalonga Primary School in Mityana Parish in Uganda

Sumner M. Redstone Foundation and the Kalonga Primary School in Mityana Parish in Uganda

Kalonga Primary School in Mityana Parish in Uganda has been a special project for RainCatcher. They have a larger-than-average school population, a devoted teaching staff with a headmistress who lives on-site with her family, and a group of parents who ...

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Planning “Rain Catching” with the Peace Corps

Planning “Rain Catching” with the Peace Corps

On this trip, we’re scheduled pretty tightly. The objective is to meet with partners and visit sites we hope to provide with rainwater harvesting in 2012. One such partner is Bryan Kobick who is serving with the Peace Corps at ...

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Population reaches the 7 billion mark today – Halloween 2011

Population reaches the 7 billion mark today – Halloween 2011

What water challenges will we face as we have reached the 7 billion people mark today, Monday October 31st, 2011 according to the United Nations? This mark will surely pose new challenges to provide adequate food and clean water for ...

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Dennis Haysbert and RainCatcher – Public Service Announcement

Dennis Haysbert and RainCatcher – Public Service Announcement

Dennis Haysbert, RainCatcher ambassador and clean water enthusiast, narrates this public service announcement on clean water featuring an original song written for RainCatcher by St. Matia Mulumba Kalonga Primary School, Mubende District Mityana Parish, Uganda. The school of 985 students ...

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RainCatcher and Embracing the World

RainCatcher and Embracing the World

RainCatcher has donated 100 water filters to Embracing the World, the international not-for-profit collective of humanitarian projects of Amma (Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi). Discussions are underway between RainCatcher and Embracing the World on potential opportunities for collaboration on the provision ...

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RainCatcher in partnership with Reach the Un-Reached ministry – reaches Sanyu Babies Home

RainCatcher in partnership with Reach the Un-Reached ministry – reaches Sanyu Babies Home

Dear Directors and Partners of RainCatcher. On 12th September 2011 the Directors of Reach the Un-Reached ministry Mr. Julius Ananura and Mr. Benz Katiti delivered a water filter to Sanyu Babies Home provided by RainCatcher. Sanyu Babies’ Home is located ...

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Beachbody and RainCatcher project wrap up

On July 15th, a trip will take place sending two RainCatcher representatives to Uganda and Kenya to deliver 800 more clean water filters (capable of supplying more than 80,000 people clean water!!!) and to attend a ribbon cutting ceremony of ...

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Urgent Action Needed to Avoid Water And Sanitation Crisis in Africa according to the African Development Bank

It is shown that one third of the causes hampering achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) are water-related. Already, water poses a number of challenges for Africa like it does nowhere else in the world. With only four years ...

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We go into an area for about an hour, leave and the water problem is solved

Watch this amazing Video as Jack Rose of RainCatcher gives a video slide show of one recent success story as we go into a village near Lake Victoria for about an hour, address the water problem and leave. This village ...

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Women walk 3.7 miles a day for water, on average, in developing countries

Take a “Water Walk” with journalist Jarrod Holbrook in Kenya, East Africa. Not only was the walk over 5 miles, the water that they “were” collecting to drink was from a dirty bacteria laden river. Now that we have visited ...

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