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16 Aug

Here’s the unedited update from the field:

By Lynn Malooly – Project Leader

New well in Makuach Rual village

Dear GlobalGiving friends,

We are happy to report that we have photos and location information for the first GlobalGiving well! Our GlobalGiving donors fully funded the well, located in the village of Makuach Rual, Tonj North County, Warrap State, South Sudan. GPS coordinates are N 08 34 470 E 028 34 061. Village chief is Kuel Tong Akook. The well is serving a population of about 1000 people, although we expect that number to rise.

A well in this village means so much– women and girls will no longer have to walk for water. New possibilities exist for all villagers now that they have constant access to fresh, clean water.

After a busy and successful drilling season our crews are now planning for the 2012-13 drilling season, set to start in December. Much needs to be done in the meantime– checking equipment, ordering spare parts, deciding which villages will get wells.

Thank you for being a part of Water for South Sudan– with your help we are able to drill wells and transform lives. With one well already funded we are now half-way towards funding our second well through GlobalGiving. Thank you for your support!

Children now have clean water!

Thanks to everyone for your support and contribution to our Engine of Contribution.

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Tags: Rouxbe For Life, global giving

17 May

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Rouxbe for Life – Engine of Contribution

by Dawn, Co-founder of Rouxbe

It’s a great day for all of us here at Rouxbe as today is the day that Rouxbe For Life is officially back on track – and we don’t mean Rouxbe Lifetime Memberships – that’s already back as you know.

For those of you that have been around since we started (back in 2005), you may recall that we used to contribute a percentage of proceeds to Rouxbe for Life – our social contribution initiative here at Rouxbe. And it’s more than just a sidebar program, it’s actually one of the key reasons we exist as a Company.

Watch Video on our “Engine of Contribution”

We’ve already fed over 100,000 hungry school children in developing countries through the World Food Programme school feeding program. To get things started again, we’ve selected a few other key hunger and sustainability programs that we’d like to support, such as school feeding and building schools in developing countries, along with contributing to the building of wells in Sudan and feeding at-risk children in Kenya.

Each month Rouxbe will contribute 5% of profits and you, our students, can help us by voting on where you’d like us to allocate the money. Read more and vote here.

This week we started contributing to the building of a school in Ethiopia by purchasing needed building items – elements such as classroom doors and chalkboards through an amazing organization called Imagine1day. We also contributed to the building of a well, where our contribution will provide the first fresh, clean drinking water in the new country of South Sudan. Lastly, we contributed to a project in Kenya that is trying to save 85 at-risk school children by providing them with school fees, care and meals for an entire school term. Small contributions, but over the lifetime of Rouxbe, with your support, we can make a positive impact.

Additional programs will be identified over time, but please check out the video overviews for the programs we’ve identified to date and cast your vote for next month’s donations.

Welcome everyone to Rouxbe for Life!

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Tags: RFL, Rouxbe For Life, world hunger