In Cayes-Jacmel, Haiti, we have partnered with the Association Saint – Luc Haiti (ASSLHA) to produce soap. This allows the community to purchase locally made soap as well as providing jobs. We’ve recently taken this long-term partnership one step farther by hiring 4 Hygiene Ambassadors who will help provide hygiene training to the community. Modeled […]
Category: Countries We Work In
I was only in the bank for 5 minutes and it was gone. My favorite bike. The lock was clipped. I didn’t waste a moment, and headed to the Badlands of Philadelphia. I was going to steal it back. For 3 days in a row, I buzzed around the roughest part of a rough city. […]
Laure Bottinelli, Executive Director at ANACAONA Community says that “working with Surge has shown me what a trustworthy, sustainable-driven and impactful organization looks like.” While ANACAONA Community started as a soap recycling program, their impact has grown tremendously over the past year (read more about them here). The Surge-ANACAONA partnership started when we jointly hired […]
Apio Rebecca, “was so scared because [she] had never heard about menstruation and did not know what as happening to [her].” Amenyo Rebecca first got her period in Primary 4, and her dress was stained. She “was so embarrassed because the boys laughed..so whenever [she] would get her periods [she] wouldn’t go to school.” If […]
March 22nd, World Water Day, is when several thousands of organizations and people around the world celebrate water. It’s an opportunity to learn more about water-related issues, to be inspired, and to inspire others to take action that makes a difference.Here at Surge, we are especially excited about this year’s theme of “Leaving no one […]
March 22nd, World Water Day, is when several thousands of organizations and people around the world celebrate water. It’s an opportunity to learn more about water-related issues, to be inspired, and to inspire others to take action that makes a difference.Here at Surge, we are especially excited about this year’s theme of “Leaving no one […]
March 22nd, World Water Day, is when several thousands of organizations and people around the world celebrate water. It’s an opportunity to learn more about water-related issues, to be inspired, and to inspire others to take action that makes a difference.Here at Surge, we truly embody this year’s theme of “Leaving no one behind”. The […]
Our work with our local Ugandan partner Prince of Peace Orphans and Widows (POPOW) includes a wide range of water and sanitation projects from: distributing water filters, building latrines and rainwater collection tanks, fixing springs and wells, and so much more. Here’s a highlight of three of our projects to show how — A Single […]
Matica is an older woman and mother to a handicapped child in the community of San Jose Adentro in Baitoa, Dominican Republic. She spent all of her days walking to a local stream to collect water and would carry it back to her house in buckets. Not having easy access to water resulted in Matica […]
Last year, at the age of 5, Jemamae Tabura was hospitalized due to diarrhea. For three days, she recovered in the hospital, missing school, because of a water-borne disease she contracted from an unsafe water supply. Her parents took shifts watching over her – her mother would sit with her all day until 5pm, when […]
For most of his life, Jacquet Duclair has suffered from stomach pains and diarrhea. His family didn’t have a water filter, and so they drank water from a local spring without purifying it. Jacquet not only lost a lot of weight and suffered from anemia, but his academic performance at school was also affected as […]
Akampurira Robert is the head-teacher at Rwabarata Primary School in Ntungamo district, Uganda. He is one of the best leaders in the community, and his school was able to conduct P.7 exams this year, which students need to complete in order to graduate. He receives his monthly salary on time, and is therefore able to […]
