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Balancing on a Diving Board
Have you ever seen a musician play while balancing on the end of a diving board? We have. We never know what will happen when we host house concerts. If it’s outside, will the weather be beautiful? Will the host rally behind our cause? Will the musical guests give it their all? You may not…
Read MoreA Little Girl, a Little Creek and a Little Dare
Our intern, Bethany, shares why her experience in the Dominican Republic inspires her to take on the Dirty Water Dare for people in Africa. “Do you want to see the river?” Little Alicia looked up at me with her chocolate brown eyes and matted hair. Before I had the chance to answer, she grabbed my…
Read MoreTwo Choices
Take a good look at the landscape in this picture. It’s both strikingly beautiful and immensely daunting. That landscape is located in a small, rural village in northern Kenya. It is home to 2,000 Kenyans and 14,000 livestock, but no constant source of water. Turbi has a water reservoir, but, more often than not, it…
Read MoreWithout Water
Imagine life without water. Our intern, Erin, had a brief experience with limited access to water for a few days—one I’m sure most of us have had. Find out how that experience prompted her to do the Dirty Water Dare. Water is essential for life on Earth. It makes up about 65 percent of an…
Read MoreHalf a Day’s Income on Water
The average daily earning for someone in the U.S. is $24.53, meaning the daily earning is somewhere around $196.24.* Imagine spending half that on clean water for your family every other day. That would be $343.42 a week on water. Drinking water is virtually free in the U.S., assuming you aren’t drinking bottled water. Meet…
Read MoreThe Moment You are Implicated
In July I got to visit several of Blood:Water’s partners for the first time. I’ve documented several portions of my trip, but I don’t think I’ve posted about the most important moment of my trip. It was the moment I was implicated in someone else’s story. Her name was Dorica. We had spent the day walking…
Read MorePassing the Time
Most little boys we meet in Africa love to play football—little boys like Gift.
Read MoreEmpathy Over Sympathy
Our intern, Heather, takes on the Dirty Water Dare and shares her personal reason behind doing it. Check it out! I recently watched a video on the difference between empathy and sympathy. As the narrator, Brené Brown, points out, “Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.” Empathy is feeling with people, sympathy is feeling bad for…
Read MoreBorn Free of HIV
Akumu Sandy is HIV-positive. When she became pregnant, she feared her unborn child would contract the virus from her either before or after birth. Akumu sought medical help at New Life Medical Center in Uganda. New Life focuses a great deal of working ensuring babies are born free of HIV. Today, Akumu has a healthy…
Read MoreWells From the First Million
By now you’ve learned we have officially reached 1 million people with clean water in Africa and that we are moving toward bringing clean water access to The Next Million. Allow me to tell you about some of the first million. Blood:Water wants to make sure the work we do in Africa is lasting and…
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