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EKCÖLAB is a youth-led international organization that helps communities to have clean water and and build climate resilient environment.

Our vision is saving people, water and environment in local communities for a greater well-being.

09/26/2026

🚨 EWSI Cohort 6 – Applications Open!

Ready to become a certified water and environmental inspector? 🌍

What is EWSI?
The Environmental & Water Sanitary Inspector (EWSI) Certification is a globally recognized program by EKCÖLAB. It trains you to tackle water, sanitation, and environmental challenges using field techniques and digital tools like EKCOLAB Analytics. Over 2,500 graduates from 27+ countries have already joined the movement.

What it means for you:
✅ Globally recognized certification
✅ Hands-on fieldwork experience
✅ EKCOLAB Analytics training
✅ Global network across Africa, Asia & Europe

EWSI Cohort 6 is now accepting applications!

Important Dates:
🔹 100% Scholarship ends: 10 October 2026
🔹 Partial Scholarship: 11–15 October 2026
🔹 Final Deadline: 15 October 2026
🔹 Program: 20 October – 20 December 2026

Apply here →https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSW_ElD2GsOOSwKYxIHyau3zLlKYbZVbNmA8ATCQqiOt2JAw/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=116343994754425354249
Join WhatsApp community → https://tinyurl.com/ewsi20265

Tag a friend who should join! 👇

08/08/2026

🚨 EWSI Cohort 6 Is Coming!

Something exciting is on the way! 🌍

EWSI Cohort 6 is launching soon – and we want YOU to be part of the next generation of water and environmental leaders.

What is EWSI?
A globally recognized certification that trains you in:
✅ Water quality standards (WHO-aligned)
✅ EKCOLAB Analytics – AI-powered community monitoring
✅ Hands-on fieldwork
✅ Global networking (27+ countries, 2,500+ associates)

What to do NOW:
🔹 Check our new registration page → https://www.ekcolab.org/training/ekcolab-ewsi-certification/
🔹 Join our WhatsApp community → https://chat.whatsapp.com/JR1bk4AntybGjBJRh2QTsi
🔹 Follow EKCÖLAB for updates

Cohort 6 is coming. Don't miss out.

08/03/2026

Empowering Women Through Hygiene and Sanitation Education in Buea, Cameroon 🚰🧼

Last week, our team at EKCOLAB Cameroon carried out a hygiene and sanitation workshop with local women of the Mile 16 Bolifamba community in Buea, Cameroon.

The workshop centered on a powerful idea: women as leaders of water and how they can safeguard their homes and communities through effective hygiene and sanitation practices.

We wrapped up the session by distributing hygiene and sanitation kits, including drinking water buckets, soaps, detergents, and toilet tissues to 13 women who participated in the campaign.

The response was overwhelming. All participants expressed their satisfaction and joy in learning how to become role models who protect their families and communities.

When women are equipped with knowledge and resources, entire communities thrive.

Read more ... https://www.ekcolab.org/women-hygiene-and-sanitation-workshop-and-distribution-campaign-buea-cameroon/

👉 Follow us for more updates on the progress:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ekcolab

EKCÖLAB Communities

07/30/2026

💡Leadership at the heart of community intervention

Last week, our team in Cameroon, together with volunteers, carried out a specialized capacity-building session to investigate contaminants in various water sources (household drinking water, stream, well, and tap water). This exercise was hands-on and brought high-level engagement regarding water quality, sanitary evaluations, contaminants, and health risks.

To safeguard local communities in Cameroon and Africa, there is a need for regular testing of baseline water quality for all known water sources used by the local population.

We are presently running multiple water quality tests across the Bolifamba local community in Buea, Cameroon. Our goal is to make available open water quality data for Buea and Cameroon as a whole.

07/14/2026

Community Risk Explorer (🎭 A Tale of Two Realities)

Imagine a massive flash flood is about to hit an informal settlement in Africa.

🌍 Reality A: A multi-million dollar satellite map in Europe shows an orange weather alert. Two months later, an agency publishes a 40-page report. Meanwhile, families on the ground are already dealing with a flood.

⚡ Reality B: A local volunteer drops a single GPS pin online. The system instantly maps the perimeter, calculates water scarcity, climate stress, hygiene and sanitation network, contamination risks, and alerts the community to prepare sandbags three days before the storm hits.

Reality B is the EKCÖLAB Analytics "Community Risk Explorer."
This is Africa’s first completely free, open-source, hyper-local climate-WASH engine built to replace top-down assumptions with automated field intelligence.

👉 Launch the Community Risk Explorer & Register Now
https://ekcolabanalytics.site/community-risk-explorer/

07/10/2026

Webinar 1.0: Practical and Equipment Essentials on Water Quality Testing Based on Field Lessons in Cameroon

We are glad to invite all members in our community to seize the opportunity to attend this high level webinar (workshop) to understand the what, why and how of water quality investigation and health protection strategies.

Join us online via Zoom
https://shorturl.at/SrEbn

Date: Saturday, 11 July 2026
Time: 7PM (GMT)

07/09/2026

🎉 The EKCÖLAB Water and Climate Handbook is Available Now

We are incredibly proud to announce the release of the 1st Edition of the 𝐄𝐊𝐂𝐎̈𝐋𝐀𝐁 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤: 𝐴 𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝐺𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, produced in collaboration with our partners.

Globally, contaminated water kills millions. In Africa, rapid population growth places immense strain on water availability, accessibility, and affordability. However, the most significant gap we identified in our work here in Buea, specifically in the Mile 16-Bolifamba involve not just a lack of infrastructure, but a lack of contextual education.

Get the full handbook:
📩 Request via email: [email protected]
🌐 Download directly: https://www.ekcolab.org/home/ekcolab-research-hub/

80% of schools lack up-to-date climate textbooks, and teachers are not trained to teach emerging water and climate science. This handbook is our direct response to that gap.

It moves beyond theory. It is a systematic, integrated toolkit designed for everyone from water committee leaders and health personnel to NGO workers, students, and private sector practitioners. Inside, we have compiled state-of-the-art techniques for:

✅ WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene)
✅ Climate change and mitigation strategies
✅ Hands-on practical lessons and techniques for water and climate change
✅ Waste management
✅ Technologies for community monitory and resilience
✅ Citizen science
✅ Public health & hygiene strategies

Get the full handbook:
📩 Request via email: [email protected]
🌐 Download directly: https://www.ekcolab.org/home/ekcolab-research-hub/

By equipping local youth, women, and community leaders with the right skills and data, we build resilience from the ground up. This handbook is our contribution to ensuring that when it comes to water and climate, Africa and the world has the right tools to fight back.

We invite local communities, practitioners, policymakers, and partners to connect with us. Let's apply this knowledge together.

EKCÖLAB Communities

06/22/2026

Workshop Experience for Stakeholders (Feedback Summary)

After an impactful workshop 1 session with the stakeholders, it was a moment to really reflect and express their gratitude for such an intervention that EKCÖLAB has brought to them.

Mr Nana Michael, who is the quarter head of Quarter 2 in the community, expresses his joy for what they have learnt and how it will help tremendously shape the future of the Mile 16 community.

We also heard from the women's leader, who also fully appreciated our initiative and technical depth in solving community-rooted problems.

This project is supported by Cassandra Conference

Watch the video of the workshop below

Follow us for more updates on the progress:
Facebook: https://lnkd.in/djwi9wZE
YouTube: https://lnkd.in/drAgC5xq
LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/dksrmzEc

EKCÖLAB

06/21/2026

WASH and Climate Resilience Workshop 1

Strengthening local communities begins with stakeholders understanding the scope and intensity of the problems they are facing. By providing them with real-world cases in their community and local experiences, it is possible to mitigate and reduce misconceptions surrounding waterborne disease, climate change impacts and community health all together.

On Friday (19/06/2026), our dedicated team of experts in Cameroon conducted a groundbreaking workshop with the community stakeholders of Bolifamba Mile 16 in Buea. These stakeholders included various quarter heads as well as community sanitation personnel. Our primary objective was to debunk myths surrounding the topics, provide a blueprint for core knowledge, and outline the pathway to community resilience through corporate responsibility and technical know-how.

The workshop is the first of its kind within the community to tackle the topics that really matter to the local population. Our goal for the second workshop will focus on practicalizing and solidifying the knowledge they have acquired so as to enable them to become the first line of support for their various quarters in the community. Subsequent workshops will also consider strengthening the community women's groups to create a unified community resilient framework.

Follow us for more updates on the progress:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ekcolab/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/

Visit our website for recent events and news:
https://www.ekcolab.org/

EKCÖLAB
Cassandra Conference

06/15/2026

🚀 OPPORTUNITY FOR EWSI GRADUATES IN LAGOS!

EKCOLAB is selecting 2 qualified EWSI graduates (Certified or Advanced) living in Lagos or nearby to represent us at the:

🌍 2nd International Conference 2026 – Citizen Science, Technologies & AI for Africa's Transformation

📅 Dates: 2–3 July 2026
📍 Venue: University of Lagos, Nigeria

🎤 Your Role:
✅ Showcase EKCOLAB Analytics as a powerful community water monitoring tool
✅ Demonstrate how citizen scientists & professionals can use the app
✅ Network with researchers & policymakers from across Africa

🎟️ EKCOLAB Will Cover:
Full conference access (all sessions & materials)
Lunch & tea breaks
Transportation, accommodation & feeding – fully paid!

✅ You Must:
✔️ Be a Certified EWSI Professional or Advanced graduate
✔️ Live in Lagos or close to Lagos, Nigeria
✔️ Be passionate about citizen science & digital WASH tools

📅 Application Window:
15 – 23 June 2026 (only a few days – apply early!)

📧 How to Apply:
Send your CV + short motivation paragraph to:
📩 [email protected]
Subject: "EKCOLAB Conference Rep – Your Full Name"

👇 Reply "LAGOS READY" if you're applying! Tag fellow EWSI grads who should see this! 🔁

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Africa, OH

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