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Photo Friday: Stocked Shelves
In this week’s Photo Friday, we are giving you an inside look at the New Life Medical Center’s drug store in Kitgum, Uganda. A senior nursing office is checking which medications are out of stock. The center specializes in serving people living with HIV/AIDS. Your generosity keeps those shelves stocked and ultimately helps save lives…
Read MoreKenya for a Reason
Our fall interns have been working with us for two months now. We love and appreciate all of their hard work. Here’s a message from our marketing intern, Kat Coffey: When I returned to the United States from Kenya, I knew that God had sent me to Africa for a reason. I was desperately searching…
Read More#WaterWednesday Giveaway
We love our loyal Blood:Water blog readers, and to show our appreciation for our readers, we are giving away a cozy Blood:Water blanket to keep you warm as the temperatures cool down for fall. To enter the giveaway, tweet to your followers: “Help me win the @bloodwater #WaterWednesday giveaway by favoriting or retweeting this tweet!”…
Read MoreBlood:Water Book Club: “When Helping Hurts,” Part 1
Welcome to the launch of the Blood:Water Book Club! Joey Maloney is leading our first discussion on “When Helping Hurts.” Please enjoy the discussion below and feel free to answer the questions in the comment box below. Poverty is a tricky subject, and for it to be combatted, it must first be defined because after…
Read MoreMiles for Wells
We are constantly in awe of our incredible fundraisers who give their time and creativity to help bring clean water and HIV/AIDS care to communities in Africa. Because our work is done through local partners in Africa, opportunities to volunteer in office for Blood:Water are few, so we consider our fundraisers to be our most…
Read MorePhoto Friday: HIV Testing in Isiolo
This week’s Photo Friday comes from the new Blood:Water partner Instagram competition we talked about in our blog post yesterday. Our partner in Isiolo, Kenya, Food for the Hungry (FH K), sent us this photo of a doctor testing a young child for HIV. Ending the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa starts with community members knowing their…
Read MoreFrom the Field Photo Updates
Did you know our partners in Africa do more than help provide clean water and HIV/AIDS medical attention? They help treat communities as a whole — heart, soul, and body. What do we mean? Did you know in Ethiopia, our partner, The ACT Project, organizes soccer club-Bible studies? They do so to create deep, lasting change in…
Read MoreTelling Our STORY
When our co-founder, Jena Lee Nardella, was asked to speak about her recently released memoir, “One Thousand Wells,” at STORY, we jumped on the opportunity to be as involved as possible. STORY is an uncommon creativity conference that was not only held in Blood:Water’s office base of Nashville, Tenn., this year, but at the main…
Read MoreJoin Our Book Club!
With the recent release of co-founder Jena Lee Nardella’s first memoir, “One Thousand Wells,” we’ve been talking a lot about books. So that made us think – we should start a Blood:Water Book Club! Since the founding days of Blood:Water, so much of the culture formed as staff read the same books, discussing and learning…
Read MorePhoto Friday: Going Digital
This week’s Photo Friday highlights a program we introduced to you last week. Last week we had a team in Zambia training our partner Seeds of Hope International (SoHIP) on digital data collection. SoHIP is already putting the training to use. In this photo they are monitoring where water filters have been installed and which ones have been checked to…
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