Water is Flowing
Grant Information | |
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Categories | Healthcare , Community , Environment |
Location | United States |
Cycle Year | 2022 |
Organization Information | |
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Organization Name (provided by applicant) | Antinanco Earth Arts School |
Organization Name (provided by automatic EIN validation) |
Antinanco earth arts school
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EIN | 47-3280825 |
Website | http://www.antinanco.org |
Contact Information | |
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Contact Name | Ms. Olga Sher |
Phone | 19176851223 |
osher@antinanco.org | |
Address |
46 SEVEN OAKS CIRCLE
Holmdel
NJ
07733
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Additional Information | |
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Used for | The Project assists the Navajo people and their neighbors in Arizona and New Mexico ("Communities") with clean water solutions. The Navajo Nation's access to clean running water is affected by the lack of infrastructure, absence of comprehensive governmental policy, and uranium waste from abandoned mines. The Project offers a solar-based solution that brings pressurized running water into households from an external water source. |
Benefits | The funds will help us to supply access to clean water for Hopi, Navajo and Zuni elders, veterans, sick and disabled residents living in the remote areas of Arizona and New Mexico. The Community members we serve are the keepers of the stories, history, traditions and culture who live in desperate third world-like conditions: dirt-floored, uninsulated, sub-standard housing with no running water or electricity, and leaking roofs. The funds will benefit those who can’t physically drive 1-1.5 hours over dirt roads to reach watering points, or haul water home from external watering sources to cook, bathe or drink. |
Proposal Description | Antinanco is seeking a grant in the amount of $5,000 to continue the Water is Flowing (To'h Ni'li) Project. The Project is currently in the third year and was born as a result of the COVID-related crisis and requests for clean water and water barrels. To date, together with our on-the-ground partner, K’eh Native Action (“K’eh”), and other partners, we donated close to 750 water barrels to households with no running water and delivered over 10,000 gallons of water to the Communities. None of the households we serve have running water in their homes. Elders, veterans, sick and disabled struggle with getting water out of the barrels and totes, and lifting the containers to carry them back inside. We have chosen to address this challenge using a solar-powered water solution, which, along with the continued and expanded water distribution effort, is the focus of the Project. The solar-powered pump that brings pressurized running water from external water sources into the household is a solution that we developed in 2021. We have already designed, built, tested and installed the first fifteen units of To’h Ni’li for the first households in the Communities and received very positive feedback. To’h Ni’li provides reliable, cost-effective solution for the water insecurity in a way that allows elders and disabled to continue living independently and with the land. The Dudley T. Dougherty Foundation grant, if awarded, will allow us to expand this effort and: (a) manufacture, install and service 10 additional To’h Ni’li units, providing 10 more households with access to running water at home; and (b) procure and install 10 275-gallon water storing tanks for the households with no or much smaller water holding containers. Our Goals and Objectives:
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