Topic: Bitcoin to Bring Water to Ethiopia - page 2. (Read 611 times)

In fact, such activities really deserve not only respect, but everyone should help everyone around them to live better.  We, the inhabitants of other countries and continents, where there is an abundance of natural resources, would like for the inhabitants of poor countries to also have access to the natural resources of our planet.  The announced projects should really be developed and supported not only by charitable organizations, but also by government agencies of other countries.  Please tell me where you can look at real results or information about the work done in specific countries?  In most cases, only bureaucratic norms and financial issues are discussed, but nobody speaks a word about what is happening on the ground.

That's great that you are supporting The Water Project! They are our one of our earliest partners, and we supported three projects with them in Kenya over the years.

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I am very happy to see that you are trying to raise fund for helping people who are short in water. I hope to see helping hands especially for all African countries in the future. They need immediate help more than other countries.

P&G already develope an easy way to clean water, and is a cheap way. Or as they say 'A simple way to clean water'.

The process is simple, you add the P&G product to dirty water, and it gets chlorinated and solids precipitate, so you can just filter that an get clean water. 12 packs of this solution has a cost of $20 and each pack work for 10 liters. Is a nice solution, what do you think guys?
 
Sources:
https://csdw.org/pg-purifier-of-water-packets
https://dayoneresponse.com/store/pg-packets-12-pack/

Thank you so much, you're exactly right... Run for Water is a really serious and dedicated team and we have high hopes that through transparency we can convey that message to the crypto community and increase awareness and support for the communities in Ethiopia. The passion, enthusiasm, and motivation coming from Waraba is infectious and we hope that allowing individuals around the world to contribute and get frequent updates on the GiveTrack platform will spread the positivity.
To check out the progress the donations have made thus far, check out updates on GiveTrack:
https://www.givetrack.org/project-details/9/Water-for-Waraba#updates

Thank you!

We couldn't agree more, thank you for your support!

It's great that you accept donations in Bitcoin. Your project indeed sounds like a very important one. I live in a third world country, but access to clean drinkable water is just something we take for granted and tend to overuse. It's even hard to imagine how people leave in the distant and more geographically unfortunate regions, lacking such a simple and absolutely necessary thing for life as water. You being open to Bitcoin is nice, because such projects can help to make Bitcoin's reputation better. After all, it's money, and money can be used for all sorts of things.
Good luck!

Every little bit helps, and if it's a different way for Bitcoin to make its mark, no matter how small, I'm all for it. Got friends from there, would love to visit one day, maybe check out the project.

BitGive is awesome btw!

P.S. OP: Move this to Projects, maybe more traction there. Can get buried in this section.

A small contribution can seriously change the lives of many people. Not everyone was lucky in geographical location and the situation will only worsen. So this is a good start.

The impact of bitcoin on the world would have gone more than this if all those moneys generated by the projects that have been established were actually used. There has been lots of great concept that those altcoins had, and if they had been well utilized, government would have felt the positive impact of it heavily.

This a very good project and this shows that the team are really serious and dedicated, this kind of project is actually a unique one because water is what people need to survive, and people who are being supported by this project would really be happy to have a liberation of what they have been longing for long time ago. I will actually be very glad to support this project also provided they promise to be transparent and do exactly has they have promised.

I have long said that bitcoin can save the world. This is a good example of one use case

The earth is suspended on water. Drawing from the ground seems plausible, especially where the borehole option is mostly available to Africa (Ethiopia is in Africa).


I also observed that too and wondered if a fresh account would get an attention when it has to do with monetary donations. But I think the OP is getting attention already. It's a welcome development.

I already donated a lot of money to https://thewaterproject.org/donate-bitcoin and what I like about their service is that they are accepting 4 other Alt coins for donations too.  I got some FREE fork coins after the Bitcoin fork and I donated a lot of the BCash that I received to their water projects.   

I see your site wants you to login with Social media accounts and that might be an option that some people would want to avoid. Staying anonymous, helps people to prevent situations where information about them might get into the wrong hands and that they might get bombarded with fake sites that wants "donations" for fake projects.     

We couldn't agree more! We're excited about the long term opportunities to expand the usage of Bitcoin from end-to-end in philanthrophy (from donor to water engineer in our case). BitGive and GiveTrack have done an excellent job setting up the infrastructure but now we need to get on the ground and work with the communities and the individuals. One of the biggest challenges we have seen in the best is setting up a bank and a bank account for the beneficiaries so they can receive the funds for their work. This is extremely important what empowering local works; however, Bitcoin allows for a new way to empower the individuals and streamline the access and flow of value! This project is our first step in expanding awareness in Ethiopia, and with the hope that this fundraising campaign is successful, we think it's the start of a long term revolution in the community and many others!!

Thanks for your support.

Thank you so much, the easiest place to do so is: https://www.givetrack.org/project-details/9/Water-for-Waraba
Let me know if you have any challenges or questions 

i do agree with the fact that this kind of initiative will just be forgotten and buried. maybe move it to marketplace > service announcements (the closest that i think of) -https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=84.0

also this type of crowdsourcing needs good exposure not only in this community but other communities or platforms that might get interested in donating some of their extra cash to fulfil the mission of the project. a noble work but sometimes they are often ignored by capable individuals.

It's awesome you guys are trying to showcases Bitcoin for a good cause. at least this will help create some sort of awareness in Ethiopia for people to know that bitcoin can serve a whole lotta functions. Good job done. i hope to see ghis foundation trending in many other African countries as well.

Thanks for your interest in the community and doing your due diligence...that is important!

The community of Waraba is in the Oromia region and it's GPS coordinates are 5°07'20.8"N 40°57'05.9"E  (this can be found on the GiveTrack: https://www.givetrack.org/project-details/9/Water-for-Waraba). It is a very remote community, which is why it can be challenging to find on a map and to find information about online. We, in partnership with imagine1day in Ethiopia, identified Waraba as the community to work with after an in-depth survey with the community. While the government provides baseline data on each community, imagine1day goes above and beyond by going into each community to assess their needs. Waraba was identified as one of the most vulnerable communities based on its lack of access to any clean water source. The community has been asking its local government for support to get a water source a long time, but the government said they weren't able to provide the funds for at least 5 years. The stream they are currently relying on is shared with the animals and is often contaminated, meaning that 5 years is extending the serious risk to the community too long!

I understand that there are alternatives to providing water in different regions around the world, but the local water engineers in Ethiopia are the ones who create a feasible and sustainable system for each community. The community itself is involved in the process from the very beginning; moreover, they are part of planning, designing, implementing, decision making, monitoring and evaluating the project at all stages. This sense of ownership is critical to the longterm maintenance of the system.

We did just have a few of the Run for Water representatives visit the community, so if you have any specific questions I am happy to get the answer for you 

I just searched for the Waraba town and first I thought it didn't exist outside the "Run for Water" campaign. But the FAO mentions it as a village in Amhara region, so the project could be legit (one has to be cautious here in the Bitcoin community, due to all the bad experiences ...).

Mainly I searched for it to know about the climate of the region, to answer @Jet Cash's post. It seems however a pretty green place, so I guess it could have a humid climate (which seems to be confirmed by the Wikipedia entry about Amhara region), and thus desalination wouldn't be an option for it (anyway, Ethiopia has no coastline, so there aren't any significant saltwater resources). Anyway, if the intention of the project is to improve the water supply technology, any efficiency improvement is also a step in the correct direction as this way less water gets lost on the way to the consumers.

BTW: What could be cool woud be a subforum for donation requests like these, I searched in the Marketplace and there doesn't seem such a category. The problem with "Bitcoin Discussion" is that threads with serious intentions get often buried under trivial topics, and it isn't also really the place for these topics.

Throughout the world there is scarcity of water. Country's that have planned infrastructure for the rain water harvesting were the one that fulfills their needs unlike any climate change. The groundwater level keeps going down, but desalination can't be made effective in all the countries. In my country we've desalination plants, but lack of perfect infrastructure plan has caused scarcity of water as we haven't got regular rainfall percentage.