A2W offers a win-win business model, ensuring access to drinking water for impoverished populations, whilst assuring the financial sustainability of the project. All the projects at A2W are eco and socially responsible, while benefiting from their strong local roots. Moreover, A2W focuses on the social, economical, environmental and health impact of its projects. In this way, the projects have allowed notable improvements, as follows:
This research project aims to come up with innovative, low-cost and eco-friendly technical solutions, in order to offer access to drinking water to small communities such as schools, or health centers, situated in water stressed regions.
This project is carried out in collaboration with the centre ‘Essential Tech’ of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the Haute École de l’Arc Jurassien (HE-ARC), and several private partners.
To this day, A2W and its original partner Swiss Fresh Water have installed more than 180 water filtration machines in Senegal. These machines are distributed between 150 water kiosks, reunited under the trademark Diam’O, and are operational both in urban communities and rural ones affected by water stress. The kiosks have positive local, social, economic and environmental impacts.
Over the course of 7 years, the kiosks Diam’O have produced over 154 million litres of drinking water, including 36 million litres in 2019 alone, and have generated, directly and indirectly, over 600 jobs. At the end of 2019, A2W handed the chain of Diam’O kiosks over to Swiss Fresh Water SA; this enterprise is socially responsible, helping the development and attraction of private investors. These machines are still in use today.
A valued partner
For several years, A2W has worked in close collaboration with the NGO Access To Water Senegal, managed by Badara Diom, who is also the mayor of the Djirnda city in the Sine-Saloum island.
THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS IN ONGOING PROJECTS
THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS WHO, SINCE 2012, HAVE MADE OUR PROJECTS POSSIBLE
We are also very thankful to all other donors that support our mission. Particularly:
Rotary Club Genève-Lac, RC Genève, RC Genève Palais Wilson, RC Genève Sud, RC Portes de Lavaux, RC Yverdon-les-Bains, RC Dakar-Soleil, la Fondation Rotary, RC Lausanne, RC Muellheim Badenweiler, Ordre de Saint-Jean (Vaud et Suisse), Lions-Jorat, Soroptimist Lausanne et Suisse et de très nombreux donateurs privé.
Every day, large organizations and small NGOs are reducing water stress, every day progress is made, step by step, the situation is improving. But the task remains huge and the needs are urgent.
From 2012 to 2019, the Access To Water Foundation (A2W) has enabled the production of more than 150 million liters of drinking water with Diam’O kiosks in Senegal. Since then, the chain of kiosks has been taken over by Swiss Fresh Water SA in order to develop this activity with private capital.
Since 2020, A2W is dedicated to providing access to free water in health centers and schools in rural Senegal. Already more than 50 installations have been made and have generated an immediate impact. Since March 16, 2021, 8 new installations have been made in the city of Matam along the Senegal River.
A huge thank you to all our partners of yesterday, today and tomorrow, who make this possible since 2012.
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Badara Diom, ONG A2W Sénégal, & Renaud de Watteville, Access To Water Foundation
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