A Note from Our Founder--

In 2005, I traveled with a team from Lake Grove Presbyterian Church on a World Vision trip to Zambia. While visiting the very rural Sikuteke Village, I walked with a woman a half mile to a dry stream bed. In the stream bed was a small water hole--the water was brown with debris floating in it. The woman reached in, scooped the water out with an old hardhat and filled her bucket. I looked at it, thought of my newly born grandson, and asked the woman if she boiled the water before she gave it to her kids to drink. “No,” she said, “I do not have enough fuel.” She was giving this water to her kids. She had no choice. Something happened to me. I felt I had to do something to help.

Since then, many others from our area have traveled to Zambia with World Vision and have had similar experiences. These travelers and other local volunteers established WaterAfrica in order to increase awareness about the need for safe water and sanitation in developing countries and to raise money to help World Vision provide safe water and sanitation for villagers in rural Zambia.

WaterAfrica initiatives have included Walks for Water, Water Concerts, and a Film Festival. We speak at churches, schools, and other organizations. We staff information tables at various events and have developed a short video to tell the story. We have raised over $700,000, enough to provide water for almost 20,000 people.

Please contact us with any questions about WaterAfrica. We would love to hear from you.

Sincerely,
Bill Savage
Founder, WaterAfrica
info@waterafrica.org