WASH
Build a Biosand Filter of Your Very Own
So you go to your internship one day, and they ask you to build a biosand water filter… It happened to me, and it could happen to anyone. Especially if you work at Blood:Water where our mission is…
Photo… Video Friday: Seeds of Hope
This week’s Photo Friday will be Video Friday. We want you to get to know who we work with in Africa a little better. So today, we’re diving a little deeper with Seeds of Hope in Zambia.
Meet Lily Katherine, Our Lemon:Aid All Star
Meet Lily Katherine. Since beginning her Lemon:Aid journey, she has raised over $2,000 for clean water in Africa and breezed past her original fundraising goal of $1,500. Considering Lily Katherine had to stand on a box to reach…
Vending Machine Water Kiosks
There are no shortage of solutions proposed for addressing the global water crisis. No matter the solution, success has four key ingredients: quality, quantity, accessibility, and reliability. Recently a partnership between a Dutch engineering firm, Grundfos, and the Kenyan…
An Awe-Inspired Firsthand Look: An Update from Zambia
Blood:Water’s story began with a trip to Africa. This trip ignited a passion that bore a vision to see the end of the HIV/AIDS and water crises in Africa. We would like all of our supporters to be…
Photo Friday: Bio-sand Filter
In America if we saw a massive concrete structure with spray paint on the front in someone’s home, we’d probably turn a blind eye. But in Africa such a piece is the pride and joy of many homes—and more…
Ending the Water and Sanitation Crises
Water is essential to life. Unfortunately it also kills. Water carries diseases that account for over 2 million deaths worldwide. Most of these are children in the developing world. These diseases are almost always in the form of…
Photo Friday
For this week’s Photo Friday, meet Nate. The family of this sweet, little boy has to pay 10 percent of what they make every day to get water from a government-owned pipeline. What’s worse is that pipeline isn’t…
Google Kids Build Biosand Filters
This year at Google’s “Take Your Child to Work Day,” kids had the opportunity to hear about the value of clean water and even build their very own Biosand filters! Ruth Doane, a dear Blood:Water friend, shared with…
Photo Friday: Community Health Promoters
Photo Friday comes from Zambia. This photo shows a group of Community Health Promoters (CHPs) in Ndola. CHPs are important because after learning what proper sanitation looks like, they then train their own communities on how to improve…
