Thanks in large part to a grant of $40,000 donated through Simply Organic’s One Percent Fund (SO1%), clean water is now easily accessible to thousands of people in 38 villages.
The 49 new wells provide cleaner water for the villagers’ use and save the women and children in the villages several hours a day of walking to streams that are sometimes miles away. The wells also supply the grower co-op with a convenient and stable source of clean water for processing their premium-quality vanilla beans.
Bedard said: “Working with these vanilla farmers has been an exciting development in our Well Earth sustainable and ethical sourcing programme. By helping to provide easy access to clean water, we are enabling the farmers to more efficiently and effectively grow and harvest their vanilla beans and to increase their incomes.”
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Source: Simply Organic
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