ADS in the Media
ADS in the media
Since 2005, the press, radio and TV have covered our work bringing water, health and education to rural communities in Ethiopia and Uganda. Here we bring those stories together, so you can see the impact of twenty years of cooperation through other people’s eyes.
An article by Francisco Asís Moreno, president of ADS, in the Annals of the Royal National Academy of Medicine on the occasion of the 2025 Solidarity Cooperation Award: twenty years of health and community projects in Ethiopia.
The Real Madrid Foundation holds its first coach training workshops at the Sagure social-sports school in Ethiopia, which it runs with ADS for some 250 children at risk of social exclusion.
COPE tells the story of Paco Moreno, who left his law practice in Madrid to bring water to rural communities in Ethiopia: how he started out as a volunteer in 2003, how he finds water on the ground and his track record of more than 155 wells.
Alfa y Omega interviews Paco Moreno, president of Fundación ADS, about his career and the method he uses to find water in rural Ethiopia, where the foundation has now drilled 155 wells.
The podcast “Tu Viaje al Interior” talks in depth with Paco Moreno about his experience in Ethiopia, the reality of the continent beyond the clichés, and the work of ADS.
Roberto Carlos welcomes Francisco Moreno, president of Fundación ADS, to Real Madrid City to present the Sagure social-sports school in Ethiopia, which will serve around 300 vulnerable children through football and values education.
To mark the 2022 TELVA Solidarity Award given to ADS, the weekly Alfa y Omega looks back on fifteen years of work in Ethiopia: drilling wells, the country’s food insecurity and how having water close by helps girls stay in school.
Córdoba BN takes stock of the Dida and Obe water treatment plants and of reusing zeolites as farm fertilizer.
Retema runs a feature on the zeolite filters that remove fluoride from water in Ethiopia and on the second phase, which is studying their reuse as fertilizer, with CSIC and Amigos de Silva on the ground.
A CSIC press release on the second phase of the project led by the Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry and Amigos de Silva in Ethiopia: reusing as fertilizer the zeolite that has already removed fluoride from the water.
An opinion piece by Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros in El País (Planeta Futuro) on drinking water as a lever against poverty: a well reduces deaths and famine, and helps girls stay in school and women gain independence.
The World Intellectual Property Organization presents CSIC’s zeolite technology against fluoride, and the Dida and Obe plants in Ethiopia, developed with the NGO Amigos de Silva, as a case study.