It Takes A Single Drop Of Water To Start A Wave: Gemma Bulos at TEDxBayArea Women Entrepreneurs

Gemma Bulos is a multi award-winning social entrepreneur, water champion and musician. Currently, she is the Director of the Global Women's Water Initiative, training women to be technicians and entrepreneurs who are able to build clean water and sanitation solutions in their communities.

For her body of work, she has received national and international awards from Echoing Green, Ernst Young, Schwab Foundation and the Stanford Social Entrepreneur Fellowship. Her water programs have also won the Tech Equality Award and Warriors of the UN Millennium Goals. She was recently recognized as one of the Most Influential Thought Leaders and Innovative Filipinas in the US as well as one of the Top 10 Water Solutions Trailblazers in the world by Reuters Alertnet. To date, Gemma's work has provided over 200,000 people with clean water in Asia and Africa.

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