Clean Water Initiative House Of Cards
The current ceo is gillian cole.
Clean water initiative house of cards. House of cards is set in washington d c. 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. 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. Frank s wife claire runs an ngo the clean water initiative cwi but her intentions are not made explicit.
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. More than 1 in 8 people 884 million in the world don t hav. As more countries in the developing world modernize the need for access to clean water continues to grow. Who knew what back channeling was before you watched house of cards.
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. Claire is incredibly passionate about the initiative. 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. And is the story of congressman.
House of cards aired in the u s. Gillian cole is an asian american woman who graduated from stanford university as valedictorian. It was founded in 2004 by claire underwood. 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.
But as it turns out she and her on screen alter ego do have something in common. Cwi offices first appeared in chapter 1 and was shown to be a non profit organization run by claire underwood. Underwood in the show runs a clean water initiative until she leaves her post to draw up a. Director of the non profit clean water initiative an organization that supplies water filters and similar devices to impoverished countries.
At the herald zoe offers chief political correspondent janine skorsky constance zimmer to be her researcher on the hill. Details are unknown as to whether or not she received her master s degree or phd following her education at stanford. The following fact may be hard to believe. Nonprofits have become an essential player in efforts to bring clean water to millions.
However claire underwood only cared about cwi in order to increase her and frank s image to the public.