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Monday, 9 January 2012

2011: a year of milestones for Ashden winners

It seems only a few short months ago that I was recapping the progress of Ashden winners in 2010, but somehow we’ve reached the end of another year! During 2011, Ashden winners have been just as successful. They’ve reached major milestones and continued to take their work in new directions as they promote sustainable energy.

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Posted by Carla Jones at Monday, 9 January 2012
Tags: 2011, aidfi, architype, ARTI, ashden india collective, D.light, design, ENWORK, fruits of the nile, gaia association, Isle of Eigg, Kirkleees Council, LESS CO2, MARD, Okehampton College, Rahimafrooz, rural energy foundation, selco, snv, St Columb Minor, tide
Monday, 6 December 2010

Ashden-winner AIDFI wins BBC's World Challenge

On Saturday, BBC World News broadcast the final of the World Challenge 10 series. The winner was 'The Only Way is Up', the ram pump project from the Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation (or AIDFI).

The Philippines-based initiative - which won an Ashden Award in 2007 - uses the power of a river's flow to push water uphill. AIDFI has introduced the pump to over 170 villages.

There were 800 nominations from over 70 countries, from which 12 projects were selected. More than 167,000 people round the world voted online for their favourite. 'The Only Way is Up Project' received US $20,000 prize from Shell.

(Pic: Auke Idzenga, Programme Director, receives award at BBC World Challenge ceremony)

See also: AIDFI now in Top Three for BBC World Challenge
AIDFI works hard for votes in last week of BBC challenge
AID foundation selected as finalist for BBC World Challenge
Blog Action Day: Ram pumps provide freshwater for 50,000 people
Posted by Robert Butler at Monday, 6 December 2010
Tags: aidfi, bbc, ram pump
Monday, 22 November 2010

AIDFI now in top three for BBC World Challenge

AID Foundation: 2007 Ashden Award winner
(pic: children using water from AIDFI pumps in the Phillipines)

News today in the Visayan Daily Star announces that AIDFI (who won an Ashden Award in 2007) is in the top three projects shortlisted for BBC World Challenge. The overall winner will be announced on 29 November at a high-profile ceremony in Amsterdam. It looks as if AIDFI's hard work to secure votes is paying off.

See also:
Ram pumps provide fresh water
AID Foundation selected as finalist for BBC World Challenge
Posted by Ashden Awards at Monday, 22 November 2010
Tags: aidfi, bbc, ram pump, water pump
Thursday, 4 November 2010

AIDFI works hard for votes in last week of BBC World Challenge

(Pic: AIDFI gathers votes at a local college)

The BBC World Challenge is simple: be an innovative project that makes a real difference at the grassroots somewhere across the globe. The AID Foundation (AIDFI) in the Philippines certainly fits the bill. Its use of a simple technology, ram pumps - where the power of a river’s flow pushes water uphill - is saving time and money for 50,000 villagers.

An Ashden winner in 2007, AIDFI was selected as a World Challenge finalist this summer. Over the past two months, volunteers and staff have worked hard to secure votes. AIDFI has also been visited by an ABS-CBN film crew who, trekking across the mountains of the Philippines, recorded the impact of ram pumps in remote communities (pic below).

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Posted by Ashden Awards at Thursday, 4 November 2010
Tags: AID foundation, aidfi, bbc, philippines, ram pump
Thursday, 1 October 2009

AIDFI: spreading ram pump technology across the world

The international work of the Philippine NGO called Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation, Inc. with their unique ram pump model keeps on expanding:

 

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Posted by Ashden Awards at Thursday, 1 October 2009
Tags: AID foundation, aidfi, aprotech, cambodia, columbia, nepal, ram pump
Friday, 23 January 2009

AID Foundation joins Clinton Global Initative

AID Foundation International (AIDFI), who won an Ashden Award for their work with ram pumps to supply water to remote villages in the Philippines, have joined the Clinton Global Initiative:
Auke Idzenga, one of the founders of AIDFI was personally invited to attend the Clinton Global Initiatives-Asia held in Hong Kong from December 2-3, 2008.

President Clinton travelled to Hong Kong to join several hundred Asian leaders from a wide variety of backgrounds to further strengthen social and global responsibility in Asia, and move toward the benefits achieved through collaboration.

This meeting was similar in format to the Annual Meetings in New York. The meeting focused on three primary areas of discussion: education, energy & climate change, and public health. As an integral part of membership, each CGI Asia participant made a Commitment to Action—a new, specific, and measurable initiative that addresses a social, economic, or environmental problem of the member’s choosing.

The commitment made by AIDFI:

Supplying Water to the Uplands - Spreading the Technology

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Posted by Mike Pepler at Friday, 23 January 2009
Tags: AID foundation, aidfi, Ashden Awards, auke idzenga, clinton, clinton global initiative, philippines, ram pump
Wednesday, 29 October 2008

AID Foundation to open 'Techno Park'

AID Foundation won an Ashden Award in 2007 for their work with ram pumps, supplying water to remote villages. They are now opening their 'Techno Park':
A Techno Park of the Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation Inc. will mark its opening day with the theme: “A Showcase of Alternative Technologies in Harmony with Nature and People,” at the AIDFI compound in Mansilingan, Bacolod City, Nov 8

To be showcased are the hydraulic ram pump, hydro power systems, models of water pumps, piggery with built-in bio-gas supply for cooking, stainless built-essential oil distiller, organic tilapia fish pond, contoured mini-rice-paddies, vermi-composted organic fertilizer, some rare plants and a nursery of fruits and some endemic species of trees.
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Posted by Mike Pepler at Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Tags: AID foundation, aidfi, Ashden Awards, ram pump, renewable energy, sustainable energy, techno park, water pump
Friday, 3 October 2008

News from AID Foundation

AID Foundation won an Ashden Award in 2007 for their work on ramp pumps to supply water to villages in the Philippines. Auke Idzenga, who accepted the award at the June 2007 ceremony in London updates us on their latest news:

Arrival of machines from Taiwan. As a result of the continued efforts of the Ashden Awards to help AID Foundation Incorporated (AIDFI) scale up its work on the hydraulic ram pump, a company with an office in London sponsored machines that were high on our wish list. The machines are a big lathe, a roller bender and a plasma cutter. These machines will help AIDFI save a lot of money because all metal jobs related to even the big ram pumps can now be done in-house. At the same time AIDFI can use these machines for some outside jobs to support its self-reliant way of operation. The machines will allow the quantity and quality of production to be increased, focusing on ram pumps and some hydro power machines. There is a huge increase in demand for the ram pumps.

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Posted by Ashden Awards at Friday, 3 October 2008
Tags: afghanistan, AID foundation, aidfi, Ashden Awards, philippines, ram pump, renewable energy, sustainable energy, water supply
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