More than 40 dedicated AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) volunteers from the Vicksburg, Mississippi, Southern Region Campus assisted Keep The Reservoir Beautiful (KRB) volunteers Bob Stribling and Jerry Palmer in a Great American Cleanup beautification project around the Brandon Reservoir area.
Xylem employees inspires students about water, the environment and science with practical hands-on field experience. As part of the Wold Water Monitoring Challange students learn about global water issues in the classroom and then apply new skills and knowledge in the field by testing a local water source.
Since 2008, Xylem Watermark has completed more than 5000 water projects across India, providing access to clean, safe drinking water to over 484,000 people to help prevent water related illness.
The world is facing unprecedented water challenges brought on by popular growth, urbanization, and shrinking fresh water supplies. Xylem employees helped address these challenges by helping to build innovative water towers and bring water education to schools and communities.
After nearly five years, a team of John Deere managers recently returned to three villages in rural Rajasthan, India, with great anticipation and a simple purpose: to see whether the Joint Initiative for Village Advancement (JIVA) was living up to its name.
JIVA, which means “life” and “livelihood” in the local Mewari dialect, is a joint project of the John Deere Foundation and PYXERA Global that is designed to empower smallholder farming communities to improve their lives through agricultural training, educational enrichment, and capacity-building. The John Deere team, which included Chairman and CEO Sam Allen, first recognized the project’s potential while volunteering in the same villages in 2011.
JIVA, which means “life” and “livelihood” in the local Mewari dialect, is a joint project of the John Deere Foundation and PYXERA Global that is designed to empower smallholder farming communities to improve their lives through agricultural training, educational enrichment, and capacity-building. The John Deere team, which included Chairman and CEO Sam Allen, first recognized the project’s potential while volunteering in the same villages in 2011.