Africa Aid...Water

After just googling "organizations for Africa" I found a ton of differnt groups, foundations and organizations all dedicated to helping Africa in a multitude of ways. The one I chose is called Africa Aid, they cover a few different issues in contemporary Africa (economy, education and water just to name some of them). Since I just researched the problem of deforestation in Africa and discovered that this problem directly links to the problem of clean water, I decided to research what Africa Aid is doing to help with water sanitation. Africa Aid has created (through fundraising) an Assessment and Action Team in Ghana, dedicated to researching and ultimately creating a clean water source in Buduburam (an area of Ghana). They are working with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), and have gathered water sample data to take to San Diego (which Im assuming is the headquarters for their research team) and hopefully create a water filtration system for use with existing boreholes in the Buduburam. Its a really user-friendly site and you can make donations to Africa Aid to help with their funding for research and development of their plans. They also have little facts on the sides of all of their pages on the site to help give a sense of the vastness of Africa and the continent's poverty (one that I saw was that the world population is 6 billion...Africa's population is 780,000,000 and 27% of the entire world's population without clean water lives on the continent of Africa!!) Just from the small amount of research I did to create this blog, it opened my eyes to all of the different sites and foundations dedicated to JUST clean water! Theres so much to do and it awesome realize that the internet makes it that much more possible to make a difference in someone's life who is on the other side of the world, I'll probably end up doing more research about this topic and hopefully formulating my final around ways to help this problem.