Coca-Cola Pledges $30 Million to Clean Water Projects in Africa

March 17, 2009, Philanthropy News Digest — The Coca-Cola Company has announced that it has committed $30 million over six years through its Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN) to provide at least two million Africans with clean water and sanitation.

To achieve its goals, the company will work to improve water efficiency in countries where the Coca-Cola Africa Foundation has water projects by 20 percent within three years; return all water the company uses for manufacturing processes to the environment at a level that supports aquatic life and agriculture by the end of 2010; and expand its support of healthy watersheds and sustainable community water programs to balance the water used in its finished products. The foundation currently has projects in Angola, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Cote d' Ivoire, Kenya, Mali, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, and Zambia