As more countries in the developing world modernize the need for access to clean water continues to grow.
Clean water initiative house of cards.
Gillian cole is an asian american woman who graduated from stanford university as valedictorian.
The current ceo is gillian cole.
Frank s wife claire runs an ngo the clean water initiative cwi but her intentions are not made explicit.
Clean water initiative cwi is a charitable organization.
Director of the non profit clean water initiative an organization that supplies water filters and similar devices to impoverished countries.
Claire is incredibly passionate about the initiative.
With frank s help claire does a great deal of scheming to gain ground for her non profit while simultaneously promoting frank s political career.
However claire underwood only cared about cwi in order to increase her and frank s image to the public.
At the offices of clean water initiative which claire directs claire is telling her office manager evelyn baxter maryann plunkett that cwi is expanding to an international dimension and will need 6 or 7 more employees.
House of cards is an american political thriller web television series created by beau willimon it is an adaptation of the 1990 bbc miniseries of the same name and based on the 1989 novel of the same name by michael dobbs the first 13 episode season was released on february 1 2013 on the streaming service netflix.
It was founded in 2004 by claire underwood.
Nonprofits have become an essential player in efforts to bring clean water to millions.
More than 1 in 8 people 884 million in the world don t hav.
On pbs as part of masterpiece theatre in early 1991 and was remade over two decades later as the netflix original series of the same name starring kevin spacey.
House of cards is set in washington d c.
Cwi offices first appeared in chapter 1 and was shown to be a non profit organization run by claire underwood.
Claire is the ceo and the founder of clean water initiative cwi a charity non profit organization intent on bringing clean drinkable water to developing impoverished countries.
And is the story of congressman.
Underwood in the show runs a clean water initiative until she leaves her post to draw up a.
House of cards aired in the u s.
However she is just as ruthless cold hearted and pragmatic as her husband since she did not hesitated to fire half of her staff including old people who could not get another job.
Details are unknown as to whether or not she received her master s degree or phd following her education at stanford.
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