WaterPartners' Gary White Named Skoll Social Entrepreneur

Three-year Award to Support WaterCredit Program to Reach More People with Clean Water 

WaterPartners executive director and co-founder, Gary White, has been given The Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. 

The award is presented by the Skoll Foundation to recognize the most innovative and sustainable approaches to resolving the world's most urgent social issues. 

The Skoll Foundation was created by eBay's first president, Jeff Skoll to help entrepreneurs who are working around the world on issues including tolerance and human rights, health, economic and social equity, peace and security, institutional responsibility, and environmental sustainability.

"WaterPartners International is supporting systemic change in the area of access to clean water and proper sanitation. Its innovative approach will bring great new ideas and new points of leverage into the ecosystem of Skoll social entrepreneurs working around the globe to create a world in which we all want to live," said Sally Osberg, president and CEO of the Skoll Foundation.

"I'm honored that WaterPartners has received this award from the Skoll Foundation and excited to see its impact on the people we serve," said White. "Access to affordable credit, which is the goal of our WaterCredit Initiative, will empower millions of people to obtain safe water and sanitation. In order to meet the needs of the nearly one billion people currently living without access to safe water and 2.6 billion without sanitation, we must affect large-scale, system change - access to affordable credit is one of the best ways to do this."

WaterPartners' innovations in programs and financing have led the way in tackling the global water crisis. Last year alone, WaterPartners' WaterCredit and grant programs empowered more than 142,000 people in Africa, South Asia and Latin America to achieve access to clean water and sanitation.

About WaterPartners 
WaterPartners is a nonprofit organization that has transformed hundreds of communities in Africa, South Asia and Central America by providing access to safe water and sanitation. Founded in 1990, WaterPartners works with local partners to deliver innovative solutions for long-term success.

For more information, visit www.water.org.

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