Surge Goes Pink to Stop Menstrual Hygiene Stigma
Working with our field partner Prince of Peace for Orphans and Widows (POPOW) in Uganda, we have seen firsthand how women and girls can be affected by their menstrual cycles. They often lack access to menstrual hygiene products, toilets, water, and soap, which leaves them unaware of the proper way to care for their bodies. […]
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Surge’s World Water Day Celebrations 2018
How did you celebrate World Water Day? Surge was busy hosting awareness programs in both the USA and UAE for people of all ages. These events informed participants about the global water crisis and ways they can make a difference. In the UAE We partnered with Manipal University Dubai on the “Real Price of Water” […]
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Dubai Students Support Good Hygiene for their Peers in Uganda
We are four Year 9 students from Dubai International Academy. As part of our community project, we decided to investigate the topic of hygiene and children’s health in remote communities. When we first researched different organizations that we could partner up with, who focus on a similar concept as our topic, we came across Surge’s […]
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SBB Research Group + Surge Team-up to Bring Water to Rural Uganda
The Abola community in Uganda is one of the hardest to reach for our partners at Prince of Peace for Orphans and Widows (POPOW). During the rainy season, the roads are so bad that it is very hard to travel from Kaberamaido (where POPOW is headquartered) to Abola. In the community, there is a lack […]
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Event Recap: Surge Middle East Celebrates World Water Day
What does water mean to you? That’s the question Surge Middle East asked more than 150 guests as they commemorated World Water Day 2017 at The Sustainable City (TSC) in Dubai. TSC is the first Net Zero Energy city in Dubai and the Middle East’s first operational sustainable community. Surge and TSC teamed up to […]
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Menstrual Hygiene Education: A Crucial Tool to Keep Girls in School
“When my sister had her first period, she had stomach pain, fatigue, and a headache. She kept complaining that she was sick, but we did not take her to get treated because the sickness did not seem severe. One afternoon she was laying down because of the stomach pain and noticed she was bleeding. She […]
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Transforming Schools One Latrine at a Time
We understand that access to sanitation in schools is critical to the student’s experience and their chance for success. To this end, in 2016, we took on several school sanitation projects — the most recent being latrines for the students at Abata Primary School in Kaberamaido, Uganda. These latrines ensure that students are able to […]
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Chicago and Kaberamaido, Uganda, Schools Pair as Safe Water ‘Sister Schools’
On a Tuesday afternoon at Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, 11 students are meeting to discuss global water and sanitation issues. At Abata Primary School in Uganda, a group of 22 students are meeting to discuss water and sanitation issues in their community. These schools are over 7,000 miles away, but they are connected. […]
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Surge and PCWS: Philippines Field Update
In May 2015, Surge partnered with the Philippine Center for Water and Sanitation (PCWS) to provide water harvest tanks, biosand filters, biogas digesters, and wastewater treatment solutions to the community of Taguig in metro Manila. Surge and PCWS have the same objective: to provide access to water and sanitation methods to communities that empower local […]
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Chicago Teens Learn About the Global Water Crisis
Skylar — a 17 year old from Chicago, Illinois — founded the very first Surge for Water high school club at Lane Tech College Prep, where she is a senior this year. Here’s an update from Skylar on the club’s activities and what they have learned. From Skylar: I wanted to give an update about Surge Eco […]
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