Water for All in China

Atlas Copco employees and companies in China funded the Water for All project in Longde of Ningxia province from 2009 to mid-2011, which achieved very positive social and economic impact in the Project area.
Atlas Copco employees and companies have generously continued to donate monthly towards new Water for All projects in China since the completion of the first project, with the Atlas Copco companies doubling that amount.

Our NGO Partner: Plan International in China (“Plan”)

Atlas Copco worked with Plan for our first Water for All project (June 2009 – September 2011). Plan is one of the largest children’s development organizations in the world. Plan is independent, with no religious, political or governmental affiliations.

A timeline of activity

• 2004: Two water wells were drilled in Tibet 2004 together with the Swedish-Tibetan Society for School and Culture.
  
• 2005: The school in the village of Katsel in Tibet can accommodate 800 students. Swedish Water for All has helped furnish the school with clean water.
  
• 2006: Majemaförlaget is a publishing house that has helped to give villagers as well as students and teachers at the Gyama Shang School access to clean drinking water via Water for All.
  
• 2007: For many years, Swedish Water for All has run a water project together with the Swedish-Tibetan Society for School and Culture in Tibet, benefiting schools and villages in rural Tibet.
  
• 2008: The Gon Kyibuk Shang School in the municipality of Namring, about 500 kilometers west of Lhasa, is the site of a project that has helped to give 800 people, including 200 students and 11 teachers, access to clean water.
  
• 2009: In the spring of 2006, Interact partnered with Amity Foundation to start a three-year integrated development project for the villages in the Wuzhai region in Shanxi, China.
  
• 2011: Water for All in China, together with a partnering aid organization called Plan International, initiated a water, environment and sanitation project to serve ten villages in northern China’s Longde County, where harsh conditions have been made more difficult by a water shortage. The project, affecting 15 187 people, 3 708 of whom are children, was completed in September 2011.
  
• 2012: A new Water and Environmental Sanitation Project together with Plan International, from September 2011 to July 2012, will benefit 1,500 villagers including 407 children from Xixiang county and Chenggu county in Xixiang area, Shaanxi Province. 
  

For more information on how Water for All is working in China, send a mail to our local contact .