Projects

Water by Women

Donation: €15.000

As you may have noticed, we started Artivist last summer, in collaboration with Niels van Weerdenburg. A platform that combines art with the SDG goals. For goal 6 - clean drinking water & sanitation for everyone - art inspired by this subject has recently been sold. Partly thanks to the sale of various works of art, we are proud to announce that €15,000 has been donated to the Water by Women project in Nepal!

Update LiveBuild

Donation: € 50.000

Since 2015, LiveBuild is one of the organization we donate to annually. Also this year we were able to donate a nice amount of 50,000 during Water & Wine.

The LiveBuild Foundation is committed to building water and educational facilities in Cameroon. The ultimate goal is that villagers can provide for their own basic needs so that they too can use their full power to improve their own lives and that of others.

Project Tjommie

Donation: €6000

Good news from South Africa! With a donation of €6,000 we were able to help Tjommie install two water tanks that provide access to clean drinking water to roughly 1,000 families. Tjommie stands for "Friend" in South African, because of the poor living environment for the children there, a friend who offers help can be of vital importance! Unfortunately, the effects of the COVID pandemic are also noticeable here. That is why the help is unfortunately needed even more than before. 

LiveBuild Cameroon 2015 - now

Donation: € 92.500

The LiveBuild Foundation is committed to building water and educational facilities in Cameroon and we have been supporting them for a few years now. The ultimate goal is that villagers can provide for their own basic needs so that they can use their full power to improve the lives of themselves and others.

EARTH & Starbucks Ethiopia

Donation: €25.000

Splash China 2014 - now

Donation: € 290.000

We have been donating money to Splash on a yearly basis since 2010. We donate at least 50.000 dollars to their projects in China.

Splash China 2013

Water for organisations with handicapped children.

Donation: € 25.000

This project supported 7 organisations who take care of handicapped children in China. 2100 children will now have access to clean drinking water, thanks to the new water purification systems and water drinking stations.

Mocca d'Or Foundation

Splash China 2011-2012

Donation: € 35.000

We have been donating money to Splash China every year since 2010. They take care of clean drinking water at schools (for orphans and handicapped children) in China.

Splash China 2010

Water project for migrant schools - China

Donation: € 50.000

The schools included in this project have had a lot of problems with the quality of their drinking water. This project in China constructed water purification systems and drinking water stations for 10 schools. This means that 8000 children will have safe and clean drinking water.

Olguluglui River Project

Donation: € 93.166 

Arkefly, Eurosonic, Rock&Run2013 and EARTH Concepts have the goal to bring back te old state of the Kaijado river in Kenia. By climate change and the short rainy season, the area has become increasingly dryer, which brings harm to the animals and Masai villagers who live there. 

Plumber Training Sympany

Donation: € 6.000

EARTH concepts initially donated a sum of € 1.000 to Ms. Earth Netherlands, who is ambassador of Sympany. In cooperation with Euro Toques and Bagels & Beans we donated € 5.000 more to this project in Malawi. The money is used to support the plumber training by Sympany in Malawi. 

Sri Lanka Home of Hope

Donation: € 28.100

Together with our partners De Parade and Denios we have been able to make several donations to Home of Hope in Sri Lanka.

With an amount of € 16.950 we made it possible to finance water toilets and showers in a medical clinic in Sri Lanka. This clinic is part of Home of Hope, a home for 100 orphans from the war zone. 

Drinking Water and Sanitation Project Arnakot

Donation: € 7.500

Arnakot and Upper-Bengri are both located in a rural mountain area in Nepal. The communities have to rely on three water taps which rarely provide water. The people there have to walk about 2,5 hours, twice a day, to fill their buckets with water.

Home of Hope Education for 100 Children

Donation: € 5.000

Home of Hope is an Orphanage in Sri Lanka that provides a home for over 100 kids. Most of the kids come from the post-war zone area Sri Lanka. Home of Hope wants to provide good schooling for its kids to enhance their chances of a succesful future. 

Refugee camp Sudan and Ethiopia

In refugee camp Abuda, Eastern Sudan, a water pipe network has been installed for 3.688 refugees. In refugee camp Shimelba, Ethiopia, refugees can purchase a variety of amenities with the donation of EARTH Concepts. 

Max Foundation Wells

Donation: € 11.700

Stichting Max (a Dutch foundation) fights the child mortality rate by constructing small wells and sanitation projects in areas in Bangladesh that are hard to reach and quite poor. The combination of having access to clean water, constructing sanitation facilities and educating about hygiene is the most effective way to minimise the chances of children dying.

Walk the World

Donation: € 8.200

During the event Walk The World ten thousand people in 80 countries walked 5 kilometres. This distance is about the same as the distance a child in a developing country has to walk on the way to school. 

Luís Figo Foundation

Donation: € 7.500

EARTH Concepts donated money to the Foundation of EARTH ambassador Luís Figo. This foundation with the famous Portugese football player Luís Figo as chairman supports many social projects all over the world.

Haiti

Donation: € 72.475

Together with our partners in North America, Tradedoubler Strandvolley and Vogue Taiwan, we were able to donate money to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

Refugees Georgia

Donation: € 32.500

Thanks to the collaboration with TAPPS beachvolleybal competition, we could donate money to support refugees in Georgia with non-food items like jerry cans, cooking sets and blankets.

Darfur Refugee Camp

Donation: € 25.000

Together with Avenance, we supported a project to help refugees in Darfur get access to clean drinking water.

After selling the first EARTH Water pack, Paul Wortelboer gave a cheque of € 25.000 worth to Sophie de Jonckheere of UNHCR.

Clean water for Home of Hope

Donation: € 5.000

The Home of Hope orphanage in Sri Lanka provides a safe environment for the 100 children to grow up in. Most of the kids come from the post-war zone area Sri Lanka, so safety is extra important to them.

Harvesting rainwater in Ethiopia and helping in Somalia

Donation:  30.000

Thanks to the collaboration of TAPPS beachvolleyball competition and EARTH Concepts, a beautiful donation has been made.  This money will go to Ethiopia and Somalia, to improve the living conditions. 

Brunapeg water and facilities

Donation: € 21.458

The province Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe has a very dry climate. The Primary School has one tap. The Secondary School only has a badly functioning pump on its property. The teachers also make use of this tap, which is owned by the Missionpost Hospital water system. The pressure in the waterpipe near this tap is often very low. The new watertank is to be placed near the Primary School. Both schools and both teams of teachers, together with the Father of the Church will benefit from the water supply system.

Water filters for families in Mozambique

Donation: € 8.000

This project will enable 800 families in communities of the Monapo District, Mozambique to obtain a Siphon Tulip (water) Filter, which will make it possible for them to drink and use safe water. The families in the project area face large problems with regard to water, sanitation and diseases. More than 80% of people experiencing severe problems with regard to basic diseases such as diarrhoea and even cholera, cough, malaria and more.

We Care Foundation

Donation: € 7.500

The We Care Foundation, an initiative of HotelloTOP, raises funds for organisations which help people who aren't familiar with feeling at home. They have been doing this since 2007.

Water pumps in Malawi

Donation: € 7.400

An on-going national water point mapping projects indicates that only 57% of the rural population in Malili, Malawi have access to safe, clean drinking water. As a result water-related diseases, including dysentery and typhoid are more common than should be. One Elephant Pump provides 250 people with 40 litres of clean water for each person every day. There'll be 12 of these pumps. 

Elephant toilets in rural Liberia

Donation: € 5.020

Liberia is currently recovering from 14 year long civil war that ended in 2003. It's time for rebuilding the communities and taking care of health and hygiene is a priority. The chances of getting sick will be reduced by implementing and using sanitation.

Drinking water school Ban Nalau

Donation: € 4.500

Together with HOAT and de Parade, rainwater harvesting systems have been installed at schools in Thailand. More than 1000 children will profit from this clean drinking water. After installing these systems and educating about the importance of using clean water, the number of children getting sick has been lower.

Clean drinking water & empowering women

Donation: € 11.740

This project in Ethiopia caps and protects 2 springs, construct 2 water distribution points, and train women in sanitation, primary health care, horticulture production & small scale business operations. 4800 people will benefit from this.

Refugee camp Somalia

Donation: € 13.500

The refugee camp in Somalia became a permanent place to live for many, due to a lack of living space outside the camp. This is now the Internally Displaced People camp. This project constructed toilets and water facilities to help 2500 people get access to clean drinking water. It also reduces the risk of getting sick.

Che Amigo foundation

Donation: € 500

Che Amigo is a Dutch foundation which collects money for educative projects in Argentinia. They support enterprises financially, give training to young entrepreneurs and bring people together.

Ceramic Filter Production

Donation: € 20.596

This project aims to send representatives of the "Prespot" pottery centre (Cameroon) to a ceramic water filter production and implementation training in Cambodia, and set up equipment for Prespot and ADEID to start a pilot production and distribution of ceramic water filters.

Sanitair School Program

Donation: € 10.700

The project aims to provide the 3 primary schools in Njombe, Tanzania with proper toilet and handwashing facilities, training just over 1600 children ages 7-14 in personal hygiene.

The 'Lave Main' for Schools

Donation: € 1.365

New systems were installed in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso in collaboration with ASAP . These systems were made together with a local plumber and using second-hand materials. They developed a simple and easy-to-use system for children to wash their hands.