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Check out Saha in the news!


August 11, 2017

Saha featured on the UNDP Africa blog for winning the SDG Philanthropy Platform Innovation Challenge.


July 7, 2017

Saha wins the Sustainable Development Goals Philanthropy Platform Innovation Challenge!


April 3, 2017

Kevin Starr of the Mulago Foundation recounts his experience visiting Saha in Ghana on the Stanford Social Innovation Review.


November 8th, 2016

Peyton Fleming of Ceres features the Saha solar business in Kpenshegu in his piece for the Energy and Carbon blog.


October 18th, 2016

Peyton Fleming of Ceres shares his experience visiting a Saha water business in Yepala for the Huffington Post.


March 22nd, 2016

A insightful World Water Day article published on Amplify titled “Greater Than Thirst — What Ghana Taught Me About Water” by 2016 Winter Water Field Rep, Jeremy Lakin.


March 17th, 2016

2016 Summer Water Field Rep, Jennifer Scotti, sits down with Warwick Beacon to talk about her upcoming trip to Ghana where she will help up implement a clean water business in a rural village.


March 2nd, 2016

The Occidental Weekly interviews Michael Consunji about his time working in Ghana during his Winter break to bring a solar charging business to the village of N-Kpaguni.


December 4th, 2015

Hear from Executive Director & Co-founder, Kate Cincotta, in an article titled “Alumna’s Entrepreneurial Clean Water, Solar Solutions Elevate Rural Ghana” on UVAToday.


December 3rd, 2015

2015 Winter Solar Field Rep, Trevon Gordon a student chemistry student at Wesleyan University talking about his upcoming trip to Ghana in article titled “Wes Students Making an Impact.”


September 29th, 2015

Next Step Living’s Climate Ride and the Annual Saha Benefit make our expansion to Nicaragua more a reality, read more details on the PRweb.


August 5, 2015

Loyola University Chicago’s Rambler Buzz interview 2015 Summer Water Field Rep, Elizabeth Black, about her time in Ghana.


June 2, 2015

Journalist, Tom Murphy, publishes an article on Humanosphere titled “These Women Bring Light and Clean Water to their Community in Ghana” where he talks with Saha entrepreneurs Ayi and Fusiena from Kurugu Vohyili.



April 28, 2015

“The Daily Press” published an article about Boston University’s Global Development Consortium Symposium where they interviewed Kate, who spoke at the event, about her passion for the field.


April 13, 2015

Executive Director, Kate Clopeck, and Manager, Eric Angkosaala’s “Empowering Women Entrepreneurs Though Access to Water In Ghana” blog post in WASH Advocates’ WASH and the MDGs blog series on The Huffington Post features Azara (Kpachiyili), Lachia (Tacpuli), and Fati (Tohinayili) and what access to water and women’s empowerment mean to them.


April 13, 2015

Saha co-founders, Kate Clopeck & Vanessa Green, featured on Entrepreneur.com in an article titled “How Two Ambitious Women Found Success with a Cause-Driving Company.”


May 21, 2015

Executive Director and Co-founder, Kate Clopeck, spoke at the 2015 Humanitarian Technology Conference.


December 2, 2014

An article in The Temple News featured 2015 Winter Field Rep Julia Klejmont.


November 28, 2014

2015 Winter Solar Field Rep Julia Solano published an awesome YouTube video for her fundraising campaign for the Global Leadership Program.


November 21, 2014

Saha Global was a spotlight organization on The Global Gender Current blog.


November 11, 2014

Saha Board Member, Sarah Kearney’s article “The TOMS Shoes of Solar” on OpenIDEO talkes about our awesome partnership with Next Step Living.


October 10, 2014

Director of Operations, Sam Reilley, speaks on grass roots vs. grass tops debate at Millennium Campus Network Conference.

September 3, 2014

Sam Reilley, 2011 Winter Field Rep, spoke about her experience at Clemson University and how that led her to Saha Global.

July 10, 2014

Saha Global Field Rep, Kelly Plescow interviewed on the Patriot League Network.


May 9, 2014

The New York Times published the article “An Update on 4 Students After A College Year” and featured 2014 Summer Field Rep Ana Castro Reynoso.


April 21, 2014

A Forbes article titled “Investing in the Next Generation of Leaders and Creative Distributors” highlights the importance of investing in next generation leaders and features 2014 Winter Field Rep Miriam Atuya.


January 22, 2014

Saha Global’s Board Member Sarah Kearney was named 2014 Echoing Green Climate Fellow.


November 19, 2013

Virginia Tech’s Collegiate Times published an article about 2014 Winter Field Reps students, MJ Rice & Jenna Sharkey.

October 22, 2013

Community Water Solutions featured in the MIT Technology Review.

May 8, 2013

Community Water Solutions awarded the New England Innovation Award! Read more about this prestigous award in this article by the Boston Business Journal.

March 18, 2013

CWS Ghana Country Director, Brianan Kiernan, is featured in Boston College’s student newspaper, the Heights

March 15, 2013

Community Water Solutions featured on MIT’s Video page


March 13, 2013

Kate Clopeck has a youtube video published titled “From Rocket Science to Rural Africa, My Journey to Africa” from a presentation at Middlebury College and highlights how CWS came to be and what we are all about.

March 11, 2012

CWS Executive Director, Kate Clopeck featured on The Middlebury Center for Social Entreprenuership Website

March 9, 2013

CWS Excecutive Director, Kate Clopeck, spoke at Tedx Middlbury! Check out her talk here!

March 7, 2013

CWS Executive Director, Kate Clopeck, featured on Middlebury College’s blog, MiddBeat

February 27, 2013

CWS Fellow Jordan Teague writes about what clean water means for the women in the village of Bogu, Ghana in the Maternal Health Task Force

September 25, 2012

CWS featured on Trendhunter.com

September 10, 2012

CWS Executive Director, Kate Clopeck, featured on BostonInno.com

August 16, 2012

CWS listed as one of ten socially conscious start-ups in Boston on BostonInno.com

April 16, 2012

CWS Fellow, Chelsea Hodgkins, featured on WVU Today

March 28, 2012

CWS Fellow, Sarah Jordan, featured in the Advocate

March 8. 2012

CWS Director of Operations, Sam Reilley (Derrick), and CWS Fellow, Sarah Jordan, featured on the Clemson University webpage

March 3, 2012

CWS Fellows, Chelsea Hodgkins, featured on WBOY.com

February 6, 2012

CWS Fellow, Chelsea Hodgkins, featured in the Daily Antenaeum

January 31, 2012

CWS Fellow, Nate Bernard, featured in Boston Univeristy’s Builders & Leaders

June 30, 2011

CWS Executive Director, Kate Clopeck, featured in the Medfield Press

June 11, 2011

CWS Director of Operations, Sam Reilley (Derrick), featured in the Frederick News Post

May 18, 2011

CWS Executive Director, Kate Clopeck, featured on MTV.com

February 10, 2011

CWS co-founder, Vanessa Green, shares lessons from her founder’s story on the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship’s blog

February 4, 2010

CWS Executive Director, Kate Clopeck, featured in the Hometown Weekly

November 30, 2010

CWS Executive Director, Kate Clopeck, featured in the UVA Engineer

September 10, 2008

CWS Executive Director, Kate Clopeck, featured in the MIT News