by WaterAfrica | Sep 7, 2015 | fundraising, People
Do you remember our story about Karthik Sreedhar? This past spring he won prize money for his winning submission in an essay-speech contest sponsored by the Lake Oswego Rotary International Service Club. Karthik donated his prize to WaterAfrica to provide clean water...
by WaterAfrica | Apr 23, 2015 | People, Youth
Two weeks before Walk4Water8, Gary and Judi Mittelstaedt gave a presentation to the Lake Oswego Rotary International Service Club. (Read about the surprise donation we received there!) Later that evening, WaterAfrica received an unexpected email from 12-year-old...
by WaterAfrica | Nov 8, 2014 | People, transformation, WaterAfrica General, ZWASH
In 2005, Bill Savage traveled to rural Zambia with a team from Lake Grove Presbyterian Church. On that trip he walked with a woman to a dry stream bed where she collected water out of a small muddy hole. The next year, Bill’s wife, Diane also traveled to Zambia...
by WaterAfrica | Nov 4, 2014 | People, transformation, WaterAfrica General, World Vision, ZWASH
It was windy and wet in Lake Oswego last Saturday as new WaterAfrica Presidents, Gary and Judi Mittelstaedt, gathered candles and set up chairs, preparing to welcome people to their home for the scheduled WaterAfrica donor event that evening. In spite of regional...
by WaterAfrica | Nov 4, 2014 | fundraising, People, transformation, ZWASH
WaterAfrica leadership changes at the Annual Board Retreat in October: After 8 years of dedicated service, founding board members, Linda Favero and Greg Chandler both stepped down from their board positions. Additionally, Sharon Reichle and Jennifer Searls...
by WaterAfrica | Apr 18, 2014 | People, transformation, W4W7, World Vision, ZWASH
What a delight to pull LuAnn & Wayne Yocky’s name out of the hat in our “Wear in the World” drawing! We had a lot of fun with this T-Shirt Campaign on Facebook. Thank you to all our participants! And thanks to those of you who liked, commented...