The Negros AID Foundation (ADFI) and its hydraulic ram pump program was selected as one of the twelve finalists for the BBC 2010 World Challenge.

The World Challenge is a competition organised by BBC World News Limited (“BBC World News”) aimed at finding projects or small businesses from around the world that have shown enterprise and innovation at a grass roots level.

This is what BBC has to say about AID Foundation’s hydraulic ram pump:

It’s baffling how some inventions fail to achieve a tipping point. The hydraulic ram pump – which has been around for a couple of centuries. falls into this category. The Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation Inc. (AIDFI) is determined to see the ram pump finally come into its own. Using the power of a river’s flow to literally push water uphill without any other energy input, it’s proving to be a boon for poor villagers living in mountainous regions.

The ram pump can save both hours of back-breaking work carrying water and cash where expensive water pumps are replaced. AIDFI has introduced the ram pump to over 170 upland villages, and has plans to spread the benefits far and wide among poor communities.

Currently, the AID Foundation has installed ram pumps in 170 upland villages in Bacolod benefiting 50,000 people with free flowing water.
Let us help the AID foundation in their quest to win the BBC World Challenge by voting for them online.

You can vote for AIDFI’s ram pump project on http://www.theworldchallenge.co.uk/2010-finalists-project08.php.

Other nominees are from Denmark, Tanzania, Peru, Kenya, Guatemala, India, Madagascar, Mexico, Rwanda and Malawi.

Watch the video here: