Grants to Aid Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Education Overseas: a Sampling

Agora Foundation (Mountain View, Calif.): To study the effectiveness of its water projects,

expand its ability to reach more people, and help start a credit program that provides small loans to pay for water and sanitation projects: $4-million over four years to WaterPartners International (Kansas City, Mo.).

Howard G. Buffett Foundation (Decatur, Ill.): To provide 120 boreholes and 2,000 latrines, as well as hygiene education, to 120,000 people in Sudan: $2.7-million over four years to CARE (Atlanta).

Case Foundation (Washington): To distribute merry-go-round devices, which act simultaneously as a game for children and a pump to deliver clean water, in 10 African countries: $5-million over three years to PlayPumps International (Johannesburg and Washington).

Coca-Cola Foundation (Atlanta): For projects designed to provide safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene education in developing countries: $1-million to Global Water Challenge (Washington).

Michael and Susan Dell Foundation (Austin, Tex.): To build 123 wells in rural Ethiopia: $400,000 to A Glimmer of Hope Foundation (Austin).

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle): To collect and distribute data about approaches used in rural Kenya to purify water and keep it clean, such as protecting sources and treating water in households: $1.9-million over three years to the University of California at Berkeley.

Gibson Foundation (Memphis): To install water-purification systems at five orphanages in China: $20,000 to A Child’s Right (Tacoma, Wash.).

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (Los Angeles): To provide clean water and sanitation in Ghana, Mali, and Niger: $2.6-million to Unicef (New York).

Kind World Foundation (Santa Fe, N.M.): To build rooftop water-catchment tanks at schools in Kenya: $110,000 to Waterlines (Santa Fe).

Nalco Foundation (Naperville, Ill.): For a water, sanitation, and hygiene program in India that includes removing arsenic from drinking water: $100,000 to Water for People (Denver).

Nike Foundation (Beaverton, Ore.): To study the special needs of women and adolescent girls in Burkina Faso so as to help WaterAid and its partners improve their water and sanitation services: $51,804 to WaterAid America (New York).

P&G Fund (Cincinnati): For public education on clean water and hygiene and to sell at cost packets of a powder that purifies drinking water to households and schools in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, and Uganda: $1.3-million to Population Services International (Washington).

Starbucks Foundation (Seattle): To provide water, sanitation, and hygiene services in Samburu, Kenya: $1-million to International Medical Corps (Santa Monica, Calif.).

Wallace Genetic Foundation (Washington): For general support of a group that works to increase public awareness and donations for water, sanitation, and hygiene education overseas: $175,000 to Water Advocates (Washington).