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American
India Foundation and Acumen
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| Over 10,000
dead and over 400,000 displaced—that was the toll the December
2004 Tsunami took on India. Acumen Fund, a global non-profit venture
firm that serves the four billion people earning under four dollars
a day, saw the dire situation in India and found a way to help.
Collaborating with Water Health International, Acumen Fund helped
sponsor the construction of three community water centers in the
hardest hit areas of India. Each system has an installed capacity
of 65,000 liters a day. In an emergency, the system can provide
for up to 6,500 people. Because the need is spread far across
the land that lies in the wake of the Tsunami, the centers are
housed in mobile temporary structures. Once the installations
are complete, 20,000 people who were driven from their homes by
the Tsunami will have access to clean, affordable drinking water.
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