by WaterAfrica | Aug 2, 2015 | admin, WaterAfrica General, Zambia 2015, ZWASH
Last spring our Walk4Water8 tapped into World Vision’s #WaterEffect message: Just Add Water. CHANGE A LIFE. The July 2015 WaterAfrica Travel Team is back from Zambia and we have indeed seen the #WaterEffect. It ripples to powerful stories of transformation and...
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...
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 22, 2014 | fundraising, W4W7, ZWASH
Our World Vision partners in Zambia staged their own Walk4Water right before Walk4Water7 and served us up a huge dose of encouragement. Because they live in a community with good WASH, the kids in their Walk can go to school and don’t walk long distances to...
