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 | Apr 21, 2016 | Awareness, W4W9, WASH, WaterAfrica General
If you’ve attended a WaterAfrica event in recent years you’ve had opportunity to explore the sanitation and hygiene stations built by Michael Olen in 2012. After returning from Zambia that summer, the WaterAfrica Travel Team reported how they had seen World...
by WaterAfrica | Apr 21, 2016 | Awareness, Uncategorized, W4W9, WaterAfrica General, Youth
Sparked by their reading of Long Walk to Water for the Oregon Battle of the Books, this year students at Horizon Christian School in Tualatin have been learning about the need for access to safe water in rural Africa. WaterAfrica Board Member and Horizon teacher...
by WaterAfrica | Mar 8, 2016 | Awareness, W4W9, WaterAfrica General
For more than a century International Women’s Day has been a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. This year the call to action is to work for accelerated gender parity and this resonates with our work here at...
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 | Dec 28, 2014 | Awareness, fundraising
Last week, WaterAfrica Co-Founder Diane Savage sat down to reflect on the first drilling day she attended, nearly 10 years ago in Chimonselo Village, Zambia. Thistle seeds wrapped in an old handkerchief. You don’t want to miss Diane’s story of...
