Over the coming months, photos from IDE field programs will be on display at Denver-area businesses to help raise awareness of our work and encourage people to get involved.  From January 10 - March 1, the exhibit will be at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, 2401 Welton St., Denver, CO 80205. Watch our website for announcements of future locations.

Special thanks to Red Shift Framing, 2266 Broadway, Denver, for donating framing services for the photographs!

Our Life is Much Better
An IDE Success Story from Zambia

Before learning about IDE, Peter Chakanyuka, along with his wife and six children, farmed a ½ hectare plot of land.  Depending upon rain for irrigation, his family could only grow maize and peanuts, with yields that were too small to sell. 

After purchasing a treadle pump from a local IDE representative, the Chakanyuka family increased its irrigated land to more than two hectares in a single season...

I Am Not Worried About My Children's Future
An IDE Success Story from Bangladesh

“Four years ago, I thought poverty was my destiny, a chain that confined me, and was going to confine my family too,” says Nazrul Islam, whose family of five lived on less than a dollar a day prior to learning about IDE’s treadle pump program in Bangladesh...

A Good Job and a Secure Future
An IDE Success Story from Vietnam

Years of war have left Phu Da commune with vast areas of sandy, infertile land pockmarked with bomb craters. IDE’s affordable hand pumps enabled farmers in Phu Da to grow better quality, high value crops even during the dry season.  But, thanks to IDE’s entrepreneurial approach, it’s not just the farmers who benefit.