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  Annual Report 2010 available  English/Nederlands

  Water quality study on our ROVAI rope pump shows 90% decrease of bacteria (Info RDI).

  Opening for investors. IaW is offering a 2 year investment scheme .... Read more

  IaW won scholarship for "Global Social Enterprising"-course at GSBI, University of Santa Clara, California, USA 18-31 august 2007 .... Read more

  Winner of World Bank DM2006! (www.development
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  Winner of Entrepreneurs without Borders/Rabobank Business plan Competition 2010!
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Winner of World Bank DM2006

Winner of World Bank DM2006! In Washington DC on May 9th 2006 the prize winners of the annual worldwide Development Marketplace competitions were announced.
From the 2593 applications, IaW was selected together with our partner Resource Development International (RDI) (www.rdic.org) and rewarded with funds for implementation our Rope Pump project.
The US$92,000 will be used for setting up the Rope Pump factory, a water quality and arsenic mitigation study and setting up 2 leasing cycles.
Implementation of the project will start in July 2006. Water Pump













Update 2010
The water pump factory manufactures 2 types of rope pumps and 8 staff have fulltime jobs. There are over 2500 pumps installed in Cambodia (May-2010) and our designs are shared with North Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan, Morocco, Kenya, and Tanzania. The factory is close to break-even point and a full Cambodian management is in place.