Africare

Africare, a leader among private, charitable U.S. organizations, is currently developing 3 projects for 2010 under the RAIN initiative, respectively in CÔte d’Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone. These projects will address pressing water and sanitation needs in rural and peri-urban communities. Activities will include sanitation and hygiene education; construction and rehabilitation of wells, hand pumps, and latrines; and community training to maintain the infrastructures.

Africare helps Africa.  It is the oldest and largest African-American led organization in the field — and Africa is Africare's specialty. Africare programs are in the following broad areas: health and HIV/AIDS, food security and agriculture, water resource development, environmental management, literacy and vocational training, microenterprise development, civil society development, governance and emergency response.

For more information, visit www.africare.org

Aga Khan Foundation

The Aga Khan Foundation is implementing a water project for RAIN in Kenya that focuses on increasing community access to improved water supply and sanitation facilities, improving the capacity of community institutions to protect water catchments, and expanding health and hygiene promotion for improved behaviors. An estimated 35,000 people will directly benefit from this program.

The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) seeks sustainable solutions to the long-term problems of poverty, hunger, illiteracy and ill health, placing special emphasis on the needs of rural communities in mountainous, coastal and other resource-poor areas. AKF’s program priorities include education, rural development, health, and civil society, with particular emphasis on community participation, gender, the environment, pluralism, and human resource development.

Alliance to Save Energy

The Alliance to Save Energy has implemented a water efficiency project for RAIN in South Africa based on its Watergy Program. Watergy aims to help municipalities, government agencies, utilities and organizations realize significant energy, water and monetary savings through technical improvements and managerial and stakeholder stewardship in water supply systems. Project activities included improving efficiency of school water supply usage and water-using sanitation infrastructure by rehabilitating plumbing fixtures that contribute to large-scale water wastage. Additionally, training school caretakers in basic plumbing helped ensure the sustainability of the improvements.

The Alliance to Save Energy promotes energy efficiency worldwide to achieve a healthier economy, a cleaner environment and greater energy security. To carry out its mission, the Alliance to Save Energy undertakes research, educational programs, and policy advocacy, designs and implements energy-efficiency projects, promotes technology development and deployment, and builds public-private partnerships, in the U.S. and other countries. Founded in 1977, the Alliance to Save Energy is a non-profit coalition of business, government, environmental and consumer leaders.

For more information, visit www.ase.org.

CARE

CARE is implementing a RAIN project for productive water usage and improved water supply in the sugar-beet agricultural region of Morocco, and has implemented a watershed protection project on the river border between Ivory Coast and Ghana in the past. CARE is also expected to implement upcoming RAIN projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zimbabwe.

CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. CARE seeks a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security. Drawing strength from its global diversity, resources and experience, CARE promotes innovative solutions and advocates global responsibility. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources.

Catholic Relief Services

CRS has implemented a water supply, sanitation and hygiene improvement project under the RAIN initiative in the Amhara region of Ethiopia.

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the official international relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community. CRS’s mission is to help the poor and vulnerable overseas, working in the spirit of Catholic Social Teaching to promote the sacredness of human life and the dignity of the human person. Although CRS’s mission is rooted in the Catholic faith, its operations serve people based solely on need without regard to race, religion or nationality.

For more information, visit www.crs.org.

Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) Zambia

DAPP is implementing a water project for RAIN in Zambia to develop comprehensive Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Education (WASHE) programs in schools and communities to complement water system development and management, benefitting up to 200,000 school children.

Through the implementation of various projects, DAPP Zambia seeks to give people knowledge, skills and tools that will empower them and their families to face the challenges of everyday life, and thereby improve their quality of life. By empowering the individual, DAPP supports development in various communities in Zambia. DAPP implements its objectives through projects, 19 of which are currently in progress

For more information, visit www.dappzambia.org

Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI)

DAI implemented a project for RAIN that supported water supply services, agricultural water use and land management and water resources governance in the Mt. Mulanje region of Malawi.

For over 40 years, DAI’s employee owners have built a forward-looking company — one that combines innovative thinking, deep technical knowledge, and professional project management.  DAI’s mission is to make a lasting difference in the world by helping developing nations become more prosperous, more just, cleaner, safer, healthier, more stable, more efficient, and better governed.

Family Health International

Family Health International is implementing a water project for RAIN in the Limpopo Province of South Africa that aims to provide a sustained and accessible safe water supply to residents. The project, Bophelo Ka Metsi (Health through Water), will improve the health of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) and other community members in three targeted rural villages by addressing the various problems that are contributing to the insufficient supply of piped potable water.

Family Health International (FHI) is a public health and development organization working to improve the lives of the world's most vulnerable people. FHI works in 55 countries conducting research and implementing programs that advance public health and build local capacity to address development problems. Since 1971, Family Health International has been a global leader in family planning and reproductive health and, since 1986, in the worldwide response to HIV/AIDS. The organization’s research and programs also address malaria, tuberculosis and other infectious and chronic diseases. FHI’s partners include US and international agencies, governments, foundations, research institutions and individual donors.

For more information, visit www.fhi.org.

Food for the Hungry

Food for the Hungry has implemented a water supply, sanitation and hygiene improvement project under the RAIN initiative in the Amhara region of Ethiopia.

Food for the Hungry’s mission is to work with churches, leaders and families in overcoming all forms of human poverty by living in healthy relationship with God and His creation. Food for the Hungry implements transformational development programs in impoverished communities around the world.

For more information, visit www.fh.org

Global Water for Sustainability Program (GLOWS)

In Morocco, Consortium member CARE is implementing a RAIN project that includes increasing access to improved potable water supply sources and sanitation facilities for vulnerable rural populations and improving water-use practices by small farmers to enhance livelihoods and ensure environmental sustainability.

The Global Water for Sustainability (GLOWS) program is a consortium financed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) working to increase social, economic and environmental benefits to people of the developing world. Led by Florida International University and including CARE, WaterAid America, Winrock International, World Vision and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), GLOWS works on the ground to implement water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, improve water management practices and build local capacity. GLOWS is implementing water projects for RAIN in Kenya, Tanzania and Morocco. In Kenya, consortium members Florida International University, World Vision and Water.org are implementing activities to increase access to sustainable safe water and sanitation services in communities and schools. The goal is to promote behavior change and point-of-use drinking water treatment, broadening governance of water resources, improving water productivity among the poor and testing the viability of a community water credit program.

For more information, visit www.globalwaters.net

Global Environment & Technology Foundation

The Global Environment & Technology Foundation (GETF), established in 1988, is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote sustainable development through action. GETF views sustainable development as an opportunity to shape a better environmental future by introducing new technologies and creating new alliances that can have a lasting and positive impact on our world. A key GETF strength is the Foundation’s ability to form these alliances in support of national and international sustainability goals. GETF focuses upon areas that we feel serve as the basis for development and include:

• Providing safe drinking water and sanitation for all;

• Developing and commercializing clean energy technology alternatives

• Encouraging sustainable practices and technologies for all sectors.

GETF is uniquely positioned among not-for-profit organizations. Rather than an advocacy organization, GETF is a designer and implementer of new ideas, projects and partnerships. The organization’s results-driven team offers unique expertise, successfully serving a wide range of clients including the White House, federal and state agencies, leading foundations, companies, non-governmental organizations and multilateral development agencies.

For over 20 years, three things continue to differentiate GETF from other organizations:

• Its partners and networks that allow new initiatives to grow and have an impact more quickly

• A commitment to sustainable action which allows GETF to demonstrate positive, lasting results through its work

• The ability to leverage its initiatives with human and financial resources to extend its impact

For more information, visit www.getf.org

H2O for Life

H2O for Life is a proud partner with the Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN) as a part of the RAIN Water for Schools project, a 2010 FIFA World Cup™ legacy program to bring water, sanitation and hygiene education (WASH) to 200 schools throughout Africa, 100 of which are in South Africa, the host nation. In collaboration with many different partners, schools in each of the 9 South African provinces will be identified as recipients of WASH interventions. Once identified, H2O for Life will work to partner each of the South African schools with a school in the United States that will help raise funds to support WASH interventions at their partner school.

H2O for Life is a U.S. based non-profit, focused on education. H2O for Life provides the name and pictures of a school in need of WASH interventions to a school in the United States and, through service-learning, the donor school learns about all aspects of the global water crisis. Once students at the donor schools learn the compelling facts about water issues around the world, they build a passion that leads them into action to raise funds to bring water, sanitation and hygiene education to their partner school. H2O for Life also provides teachers and students in donor schools with the resources and tools to incorporate water issues into their current curriculum.

H2O for Life offers students an opportunity to learn about the relevance of water in their lives and the lives of everyone around the world. Through H2O for Life projects, students become activists for change and global citizens focused on taking action to fight for the human rights of all.

For more information, visit www.H2OforLifeSchools.org

MedShare

Through its partnership with The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation, MedShare has supplied 20 forty-foot container shipments of medical supplies and equipment to 13 countries in Africa: Angola, Cameroon, DR Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. This equates to a donation of more than $5 million of medical supplies and equipment.

MedShare acts as a recycling and distribution center for surplus medical supplies and equipment. MedShare collects batch and single unused medical supplies and refurbished biomedical equipment that are still valuable but no longer in demand in the United States and redistributes these products to healthcare facilities in economically developing countries that have limited medical resources.

For more information, visit www.medshare.org

Millennium Water Alliance

The Millennium Water Alliance is a unique permanent alliance of international NGOs with expertise in water supply, hygiene education and promotion of sanitation. The alliance seeks a world where everybody is able to use safe water, has access to basic sanitation and practices good hygiene. Our mission is to assist people in developing countries with access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education by offering sustainable solutions through advocacy, learning and collaborative programming. The MWA operates on two fronts—hands-on programs and advocacy. The MWA facilitates cooperation with international and local NGOs and other stakeholders in the WASH sector to build consensus on appropriate WASH policies and effective solutions. The MWA is also an advocate for policies and resources, informing legislators and citizens alike about water as a basic human right. The MWA offers a new “breed” of NGO assistance, one that declares there is more to gain for stakeholders, especially for the people in the communities, in cooperation than in competition. THE MWA’s experience shows that the emphasis on long term country programs rather than on short-term projects allows for a level of learning and sharing that benefits local communities as well as implementers and donors.

For more information, visit www.mwawater.org

The Mvula Trust

The Mvula Trust is implementing a water supply project for RAIN in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

The Mvula Trust is the largest nationally based non-governmental organization supporting water and sanitation development in South Africa. The Mvula Trust’s mission is to improve the health and welfare of poor and disadvantaged South Africans in rural and peri-urban communities by increasing their access to safe and sustainable water and sanitation services. The Trust’s strategy is to alleviate poverty through: testing and advocating sustainable models of cost-effective water services delivery and management; supporting local government in the delivery of sustainable, reliable, and affordable water services; and enabling local communities to manage their own water services thereby retaining economic resources within the community.

For more information, visit www.mvula.org.za

Re-Solve Consulting

Re-solve Consulting is implementing a water project for RAIN in South Africa focusing on water, sanitation, and hygiene education in schools.

Re-Solve Consulting (Pty) Ltd. is a Gauteng-based engineering consulting and project management company operating in most major urban areas across South Africa. Re-Solve seeks – through engineering and re-engineering – to address the technical, social, environmental and economic development challenges faced by South Africa, especially as they relate to service provision, system inefficiencies, application of products, institutional arrangements, organizational structure and capacity development. Re-Solve specializes in provision of services to all role-players in the water sector.

Society for Family Health

SFH is implementing a project for RAIN in Enugu State, Nigeria. Project activities include improving household water quality, increasing access to drinking water and reducing diarrheal disease by distribution and use of affordable point-of-use disinfectant products. The project also aims to increase schoolchildren’s access to improved sanitation facilities through construction of school latrines and hygiene promotion in communities.

Society for Family Health’s (SFH) mission is to empower Nigerians, particularly the poor and vulnerable, to lead healthier lives. Working with the private and public sectors, SFH uses social marketing and behavior change communication to improve access to essential health information, services and products to motivate the adoption of healthy behaviors. SFH’s core values are: Service to Humanity, Integrity, Accountability, Respect, Professionalism, Entrepreneurship and Collaboration.

USAID

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent Federal Government Agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. USAID supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives by supporting Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade; Global Health; and Democracy, Conflict Prevention and Humanitarian Assistance. USAID provides assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and Eurasia, and the Middle East. The Coca-Cola Company and USAID have created a unique partnership, the Water and Development Alliance (WADA) to address community water needs in developing countries around the world. WADA has been active in 18 countries across the continent of Africa and strives to: establish participatory, sustainable water and watershed resources management to benefit people and ecosystems, increase access to community water supply and sanitation services, foster improved behaviors in sanitation and hygiene for positive health impacts and promote efficient and sustainable productive use of water to protect the environment and provide economic benefits to communities.

Winrock International

Winrock International is implementing a project for RAIN in the Zinder region of Niger. This project introduces economically and technically viable multiple-use water services (MUS) that enable poor rural households to achieve sustainable improvements in access to water, income, health, hygiene and food security. Winrock also implemented a project in Mali, providing improved rural and peri-urban water supply and sanitation services, hygiene promotion, training and technology for productive use of water in small-scale agriculture, and analysis of the potential for treated wastewater reuse from a local Coca-Cola bottling plant.

Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that works with people around the world to empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity and sustain natural resources. By linking local individuals and communities with new ideas and technology, Winrock is increasing long-term productivity, equity and responsible resource management to benefit the poor and disadvantaged of the world.

Women Farmer’s Advancement Network (WOFAN)

WOFAN has completed implementation of a project for RAIN in Kano State, Nigeria. Project activities included improved access to water, sanitation and hygiene services and supported income generation and livelihood enhancement in select communities.

Women Farmer’s Advancement Network (WOFAN) is a non-governmental organization that provides a wide range of services to rural communities to alleviate and promote economic, social and political empowerment, especially among women and youth. WOFAN’s goal is the sustainable improvement in the quality of life of rural populace. This will be achieved through training of trainers’ activities using community-based facilitators, providing basic technical, literacy and problem solving skills through the use of participatory approaches at village level for community project intervention.

World Vision

World Vision has implemented water projects in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania under the RAIN initiative. These include a water supply, sanitation and hygiene improvement project in the Amhara region of Ethiopia and an integrated water resources management, industrial and agricultural water-use management, and water supply and sanitation service delivery project in two of Tanzania’s most critical river basins. In Kenya, current project activities include increasing access to sustainable safe water and sanitation services in communities and schools, promoting behavior change and point-of-use drinking water treatment, broadening governance of water resources, improving water productivity among the poor and testing the viability of a community water credit program.

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. World Vision serves close to 100 million people in nearly 100 countries around the world. World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender.

The Africa Network for Children Orphaned and at Risk (ANCHOR)

As a key funder and strategic partner of ANCHOR since 2007, The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation seeks to serve 146,000 orphans and vulnerable children across eight countries (South Africa, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Nigeria, Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe) by strengthening and scaling up community-based interventions. The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation has provided funding for partnership development and direct support, and assists with communications, media and marketing.

The Africa Network for Children Orphaned and at Risk (Anchor) is a unique, multi-sector, multi-country partnership in Africa. Composed of four organizations: HOPE Worldwide (HOPE), Rotarians For Fighting AIDS (RFFA), the Schools of Public Health and Nursing at Emory University (Emory) and The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation, Anchor was founded in 2004 in response to the massive numbers of orphans and children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS (OVC).

For more information, visit www.rffa.org

NetsForLife®

The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation has been in partnership with NetsforLife® since its inception and has continued to provide support as a flagship sponsor of the program. This support has helped NetsforLife® to become known for its community-based malaria control program and recognized as a leader in implementing programs in remote areas.

NetsforLife® is a partnership that brings together corporations, foundations, NGOs and faith-based organizations in the fight against malaria in 17 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Its strategy is two-fold: to distribute nets and to promote community-driven programming to increase net utilization. To date, NetsforLife® has delivered over 1.5 million nets with a goal of delivering 7 million nets over the next five years.

For more information, visit www.netsforlifeafrica.org

Junior Achievement

The partnership between JA and The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF), implemented through educators and volunteers, consists of activities related to business planning, interviewing skills and teamwork and entrepreneurship programs, activities and workplace orientations. Participating countries include Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Junior Achievement (JA) is dedicated to preparing young people for success in a global economy by equipping them with the relevant entrepreneurial and work-readiness skills as well as a fundamental understanding of the free enterprise system. Through a dedicated volunteer network, JA provides both in-school and after-school programs for students, focusing on work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy.

Students In Free Enterprise

Together, The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation and SIFE intend to advance entrepreneurship across the continent of Africa and to invest in areas ripe for business development, like villages and communities with stagnant economies, little to no employment or abject poverty. The most visible component of this partnership is The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation’s sponsorship of SIFE entrepreneurship competitions in Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Swaziland, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.

Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) is an international non-profit organization that works with leaders in business and higher education to mobilize university students to become socially responsible business leaders. Participating students form teams on their campuses and develop outreach projects that improve quality of life and standard of living for people in need.

Africa-America Institute (AAI)

In 2006, with support from The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation, AAI launched the Transformational Leadership Program (TLP). This multi-year program aims to build professional managerial capacity in Africa’s civil society and business sectors by offering non-degree professional development and business degree training to the managers of Africa-based NGOs and African small and medium-sized enterprises. To date, over 23,000 individuals from Africa (Botswana, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe) and the US have benefited from AAI’s education and policy programs.

The Africa-America Institute (AAI) was founded in 1953 to help Africans build human capacity through education and training. Today, it continues to pursue its vision through two areas: African Higher Education and Training (AHET) and Educational Outreach and Policy (EOP). In addition, participants from some of The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation’s partners, including Junior Achievement, have benefited from AAI’s short-term courses.

The Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership

In late 2006, DCGEP and The Coca Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF) came together to improve educational opportunities for children and communities in Africa. DCGEP’s Learning Center initiative complements TCCAF’s goals of building a reservoir of talent across Africa and of creating skills for future generations by giving communities the tools and knowledge they need to positively shape their lives. More specifically, TCCAF’s grant will enable DCGEP to establish over 100 learning centers in schools in nine countries (Angola, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda). These contain technology, a library of locally relevant educational DVDs, two to three years of teacher training on integrating the use of television in the classroom, and school-based training on extending learning opportunities into the community.

The Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership (DCGEP) is a non-profit organization committed to using the power of television to provide information and support community development in under-resourced schools and communities worldwide.

For more information, visit www.discoveryglobaled.org

Zawadi

Founded in 2002 by Dr. Susan Mboya, Zawadi’s goal is to assist academically gifted, but financially disadvantaged, African girls in their pursuit of higher education.

With the support of The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation, the program will expand across Kenya,, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Swaziland and Lesotho. Zawadi also aims to successfully repatriate over 70 percent of students and to find jobs for 100 percent of students. Based on the successful Mboya-Kennedy Africa Students Airlifts of the 1960s, pioneered by Kenyan statesman Tom Mboya and President John F. Kennedy, Zawadi aims to create a new breed of African leaders with strong values and great moral character. Zawadi currently has over 80 students from Kenya, Uganda and Ghana today, at schools in the US, Canada, Kenya and South Africa with a combined scholarship value of over $12 million.

CitiHope International

Together, CitiHope International and The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation strive to support the revitalization of health delivery systems in several African nations by providing critically needed medicines to public hospitals and clinics. In each nation, this assistance leverages existing capacity, infrastructure and systems; responds to locally identified needs and enables the optimal use of available resources.

CitiHope International is a humanitarian relief and development service agency that provides worldwide help in the form of medicine, medical supplies and equipment, food and educational training. Since 1990, over $700 million of relief has been distributed to over 229 institutions and more than 300,000 under-served patient populations in rural and urban areas.

For more information, visit www.citihope.org.