Mama, my tummy hurts! I’m thirsty, Mama! Why can’t I have a drink of water? The cries of the children in the village of Alumenda would break their mothers’ hearts. Deep in the southern region of Malawi there was little hope for clean water without a dependable pump in their village. The nearby river water […]
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We are passionate about assisting gospel-focused ministries working among people groups in off-the-grid locations of the world – places with little to no electricity, a lack of clean-water sources, and limited access to the gospel – but, North Carolina? What happens when disaster strikes? Whether it is war or natural, we in the “developed” world
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Mindraa’s husband was dead, a victim of the ongoing civil war in South Sudan. She and her children fled on foot from their home and homeland. Ten days later they reached the Bidibidi refugee settlement, joining 270,000+ refugees from South Sudan and other areas of conflict. Expecting to find safety, Mindraa experienced a new threat
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Not long ago, the small Malawian community of Suza, like many in its region, was struggling with poverty and sickness due to a lack of access to safe water. It was in the midst of this struggle that Water Mission intervened, launching a safe water project that would later transition to community management. As part
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What if you woke up one day, turned on the water in your home, and it was dirty or contaminated — unfit to drink? We, fortunately, live in a country that provides clean water for us right out of the tap. This is not the case for many people in the rest of the world.
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Two thirds of the country of Mauritania, located in the Sahel region of West Africa, is classified as desert with many communities living in remote, off-the-grid regions. Starvation is a regular threat to areas compromised by poor distribution of rainfall. This results in high food and trade prices leaving already vulnerable families with a lack
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In 2013, SonSet Solutions designed a portable tripod to safely install hand pumps in water wells. This was used in partnership with a clean-water ministry called Design Outreach (DO) to install a water pump in Zolomondo, Malawi. Previously, many people in this village died because of unsafe water, which they had traveled up to 10
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SonSetLink™ is a technology developed by SonSet Solutions to monitor the activity of community water handpumps to minimize downtime and shortages of clean water. There are an estimated 500,000 water pumps throughout Africa, geographically spread out across an area more than three times the size of the U.S.A., each one of them vitally important for
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SonSet Solutions is part of the Accord Network, an association of 100-plus organizations serving people in over 100 countries. Cody Hall, our Community Development Team leader, had the privilege of co-presenting our work with a long-standing partner organization, Water Mission, at the Accord Network’s annual conference. The presentation was called, SonSetLink® and MAP: How Actionable Data Changes
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Have you ever spent hours trying to fix something only to have a friend point out a much easier way you should have done it? Or even worse, that you didn’t solve the real problem? At SonSet Solutions, we provide solutions to help our partners, but in order to do that, we have to fully
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