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World Water Day
Water you going to do about World Water Day (Sunday, March 22)? May we suggest a little a H2ONLY? And here’s why: Gitwa-Nyamifumba—it’s one of the three villages we are working to bring water to this season. So this is a big goal. But how about we do it today? Let’s just knock it out.…
Read MoreThe Running Water 5K Brings Water to Africa
This weekend over 90 people showed up to run in a 5K to bring clean water to The Next Million, all because Nashville teen Annika Sleenhof chose to Be the Movement. Annika is a freshman at Ravenwood High School. She started running in fifth grade as a way to pass the time during her brother’s…
Read MoreThe Art of Saving a Drink
In the coming weeks, we are going to feature some of our fundraisers who are using their creativity and talents to bring lasting change in Africa. During this second week of Save a Drink, Save a Life, we’d like to introduce you to Tamera. Tamera has been diving back into her art recently as a…
Read More1,200 Miles for Africa
As we work to shorten the walk for The Next Million people in Africa, it’s only fitting that one of our supporters would run the distance for them. Meet Bradford Zinnecker. He’s running 1,200 miles in 2015 to help bring clean water to people across Africa. He’s aiming to raise $2.50 per mile for a…
Read MoreHe is a Bass Playing, Hiking Machine. Meet Aaron.
Each month, we are going to spotlight a Blood:Water employee to help you get to know us a little better! Erin Todd will kick it off for us sharing fun five facts to introduce you to Aaron Sands, our director of systems. Aaron lives in Nashville with his wife, Cari, and their two children, Sam…
Read MoreHighlights from Be the Movement
Since launching Be the Movement in May of last year you have raised over $25,000! What an incredible accomplishment! It has been a blessing and an honor to watch you raise money for our friends in Africa, so much so that I wanted to take a little time to review some of my personal favorite…
Read MoreThird Week of Advent – Joy
This week marks the third week of the 2014 Advent Season. We’ve put together four Advent posts—one for each week. We hope they help put you in the Christmas mindset. Check out the third post: Mary’s Song of Praise: The Magnificat And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,…
Read MoreFirst Week of Advent—Hope
This week marks the first week of the 2014 Advent Season. We’ve put together four Advent posts—one for each week. We hope they help put you in the Christmas mindset. Check out the first post: Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is…
Read MoreCollege Athletes Work Together to Raise Money for Africa
Battle for the Pump is really taking off this year! Check out this post on what the Southern States Athletic Conference is doing. The 14 colleges and universities that compose the Southern States Athletic Conference (the SSAC) recently teamed up to help provide clean water to Africa. Although the schools often find themselves in competition…
Read MorePUREhope
We appreciate all of our fundraisers here at Blood:Water, so every now and then we love to showcase what they are doing. Our new friend Stephanie Strauss took incredible initiative this past April and was able to raise $1,000 through her fundraising efforts! Stephanie started hosting a coffeehouse in her local church in Pennsylvania back in…
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