Ceramic water filters are made in Kampala, Uganda by the Spouts Company. They produce the Purifaaya filter in 3 models. I had emailed...

Wood ash soap is a very cheap way to produce soap, but it does not always produce the same quality soap every time. Sometimes the soap is...

GFI was introduced to many of the women’s projects. A large group of women in the Yumbe area are keeping bees and selling the bees wax...

1. Discussion and Feasibility Study for establishing a Filter Production Site in Yumbe The women’s groups in Yumbe would like to...

Just a few kilometers to the north of Yumbe is one of the largest refugee settlements in the world. It is comprised of over 270,000 South...

Many rural girls in African countries drop out of school when they reach the age of menstruation. There are little to no facilities in...

The district of Yumbe is a very rural area of Uganda located in the north-western corner of Uganda where South Sudan, Uganda, and the...

The Executive Director of Good Foundations International, Jennifer Mally, is in northern Uganda teaching the women of a local community...

November 28th We flew from Nairobi to Kisumu and checked into a hotel in the area. November 29th In the morning of November 29th Kista,...

November 24th Our Visit to Kenya Begins… PfP team flew out of the Kigali airport early in the morning on November 24th and arrived in...

The PfP filter team, along with the Rwanda team, finished up the kiln building project in the community of Masaka. On the last day of...

We are still working in the village in Rwanda, helping Edward with his filter factory. Today we finished the sides of the kiln and...

As of today, November 15, the test kiln is half built. The community gathers each day to see our kiln building project and many people...

On Sunday, November 14, we returned to the kiln site and laid the second layer of bricks to complete the foundation. We added the...

On Saturday, November 13, a group of us made test tiles from 8 different clay deposits around the area. We mixed the different clays with...

We arrived in Nairobi, Kenya and stayed a few days in quarantine before flying to Kigali, Rwanda. Once in Kigali, we met with Edward...

February 25 – March 10 Workshop on Household Water Treatment and Storage National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj...

The entire team is working hard and making steady progress. Unfortunately, we have met some major delays with equipment, mainly the...

With much of the Team out in the field delivering and setting up Bio-sand filters today, much of the day was spent on small prep tasks...

The team took advantage of a bottleneck in the clay drying by taking a trip to the site of a future filter project in Bislig. The site...