by WaterAfrica | May 3, 2016 | Awareness, transformation, W4W9, Youth
In the weeks leading up to Walk4Water9, parents, staff, and students at Bridgeport Elementary School in Tualatin engaged in a variety of activities focused on water, sanitation and hygiene. Every Wednesday in April the school announcements included Water Words – a...
by WaterAfrica | Jan 14, 2016 | Awareness, fundraising, transformation, WaterAfrica General, Youth
Last March the Engel family walked in Walk4Water8, and then in October, Kristen and her 13-year old daughter Grace attended Clean Water For Life. Grace was particularly struck by the fact that girls her age spend half of their day walking to get water. Water that is...
by WaterAfrica | Nov 30, 2015 | Partnerships, transformation
“Your sacrifice and your compassion is making a huge difference in Africa” – Patricia Heaton WaterAfrica recently received a surprise video shout-out from Actress Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond, etc.), as she toured World Vision’s...
by WaterAfrica | Oct 22, 2015 | Partnerships, transformation, World Vision
Dr. Greg Allgood is Vice President at World Vision where he helps lead World Vision’s efforts to address the global clean drinking water crisis. World Vision is now the leading nongovernmental provider of clean drinking water in rural areas of the developing world,...
by WaterAfrica | Jan 17, 2015 | transformation, WaterAfrica General, World Vision, ZWASH
This story was included in World Vision’s annual WASH Campaign Report, which WaterAfrica received this month: “At some point in time, I almost left my husband to go back to my parents,” recalled Irene Mweemba, 46, who lives with her husband, Raynold, and the...
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...