Introducing EKOCENTER
Helping Advance Community Development
Sep 25, 2013 3:00 PM ET
Campaign:
U.S. Water Partnership
Ekocenter aims to help improve the well-being of 45,000 people in 150 communities by 2015.
Ekocenter can provide:
- Basic goods & necessities
- Vaccine storage
- Safe drinking water
- Coca-Cola products
- Cooked meals
- Sanitation & hygiene education
- Sustainable energy
- Entertainment
- Connectivity
- Economic Empowermnet
2015 Goals include:
- Fifty million liters of safe drinking water provided to 45,000 people annually
- 150 recylcing or waste management programs
- 45,000 people with access to mobile tecnology and internet
- 300 direct jobs created, mostly for female entrepreneurs, with an additional 700 indirect jobs created
- Happier, healthier connected communities
