Abundant Water

I hope this edition finds you well.  Here is a short update to let you know what we have been up to over the past two months.

Highlights

AW Welcomes iCognition as a corporate partner.
We are delighted to welcome iCognition as a corporate partner. Click here to see more.

Nigel Carruthers-Taylor, Director of iCognition and Claudia Vannithone, Abundant Water at the recent signing ceremony.

2011 Calendars are now available

Are you looking for the perfect gift?  Why not give your loved ones a stylish AW calendar.  Click here to order yours.  For your convenience we can ship them straight to your door, or let us mail them for you.

Thanks to those below all proceeds will go directly to supporting the project in Laos:
Melody Kemp, renowned photo-journalist, generously donated the 12 photographs.
Peter De Deckker, Faculty of Art and Design, University of Canberra, made a significant financial contribution to printing.
Kerry Williams, Director of the Centre for Creative Industries at the Canberra Institute of Technology, approved the printing of the calendars at the CIT print shop.
Roy Torkington, course convenor for Design Digital Media at CIT, generously donated his time for proofing the calendars.

The Training Centre is progressing

We have now completed and fired the kiln.  Her name is ‘Big Bertha.’

Two buffalo snapped during a recent visit to an outlying Hmong village.

Noukham has moved into the training centre and has begun making filters and pots.

Ty and Mac have become the first international volunteers.  Click here to see some more great photos by Ty.

TEDxCanberra 2010 – Sunny Forsyth – Change and empowerment

Sunny recently presented at TEDx Canberra

Update

We have set up the new extruder at the CIT campus.  It has been bolted to a brick wall and the first batch of trials and testing has begun.  The extruder will require further tinkering, which the technical team will commence after the summer break.

Our crack web team have made the template for our new website available to other small NGO’s.

We have started to film the training video that will be used to train potters in the production of clay pot filters.

Local Lao NGO, Padetc, has agreed to help AW create the experiment kits that we will use to educate people about health, hygiene, and filter usage.

Did you know?

Unfortunately two of our team have had a bit of bad luck with their health lately.  Tom is now the arch nemesis of any mosquito anywhere.  He is recovering from chikungunya 6 weeks after he had Dengue.  Brendan is recovering from a recent non cosmetic nose surgery (otherwise known as a septoplasty).  We wish them both a speedy recovery.

Thanks for your time and support,

AW Team