Awards for Clean Water project partners

In 1989 the physician Sima Samar founded the Shuhada Organization, which runs over 100 schools and 15 hospitals in Afghanistan today. The Right Livelihood Award is given out annually in Sweden for outstanding services for the benefit of the world and its inhabitants and is considered the alternative Nobel Prize. The Clean Water Foundation has already supported work with the Shuhada Organization – in conjunction with Afghanistanhilfe Schaffhausen – on several occasions, providing financial means for the construction of wells with drinking water in the immediate vicinity of schools and hospitals.

In Frankfurt, Molly and George Greene recently received the SolarWorld Einstein Award 2012 for their lives’ work. In 2001 the couple established the foundation Water Missions International (WMI), based in Charleston (USA), which until today has installed water treatment systems in 49 countries and has provided over two million people with better access to water. The SolarWorld Einstein Award is given out for the particular encouragement and implementation of solar energy. GF Piping Systems USA has been an aid development partner to WMI in the technical field for many years. Similarly, with Clean Water Georg Fischer has supported WMI’s humanitarian projects in Indonesia, Haiti and Pakistan.

With its Clean Water Foundation, Georg Fischer has been involved since 2002 in projects to improve the water supply in developing countries and disaster areas. To date, over 200 000 people worldwide have received a better access to clean drinking water.