UBU is a voluntary, technically founded NGO working within the field of water supply and environmental science. We help civil societies in developing countries to improve living conditions for poor people through promotion of technologies that are socially, culturally, environmentally and economically sustainable. We work in India and Tanzania.
UBU is running a development project on disaster preparedness in India. It is carried out with our Indian partner organisation, JGVK, with funding from CISU. We have worked in India since 2004, within the subjects of arsenic contaminated groundwater, health, hygiene and sanitation, groundwater depletion and flooding from cyclones and monsoon rainfalls.
UBU has worked in Tanzania since 2006 on two development projects with several local community based organisations. We have worked within the topics of sanitation, sustainable water supply, health and hygiene improvements. At the moment we are preparing a new project together with CBHCC near Arusha.
Travel report by Jeanne, Tine & Marie. On the 9th of November Tine, Jeanne and Marie left for India, to get UBU’s new project on Sustainable Water Resource Management (SWRM) started. The 3-year project was approved by Civisamfund i Udvikling (CISU) earlier this year and addresses amongst others the problem of water scarcity, which is a … Continue reading
UBU celebrated our 20th anniversary as an organisation and the 15th anniversary of the UBU India projects at the end of November with a big party at Christianshavns Beboerhus. We celebrated all the amazing years by eating Indian food, talking about the good old days, looking at pictures from our different projects and quizzing about UBU’s history. The board was happy that … Continue reading
UBU members, Ida and Anjila, held a presentation at DTU Library Thursday the 15th of November during “Grøn Uge”. The presentation was about their fieldwork in India as part of their Bachelor thesis at DTU Environment in collaboration with UBU. The aim was to inspire other students to consider doing bachelor projects or other types … Continue reading
