Posts Tagged ‘wash’
World Water Day: An Answered Prayer
In the Tigray Region of Ethiopia, community members share similar stories of struggling to find clean water, often walking 7 hours round-trip and still falling ill because the source of the water, despite the long walk, is unclean. Abba Ashebir Hailemariam has lived in one of these communities for his 82 years of life,…
Read MoreMeet Our Partner: DOW
In partnership with Drop of Water, Blood:Water has committed to supporting sustainable clean water supply and proper sanitation facilities development in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Not only will this partnership result in water points and sanitation facilities in this fairly remote region, it will also leverage and increase advocacy networks built by DOW…
Read MoreHIV/AIDS + WASH = A “Lucky” Combination
At Blood:Water, our mission is to partner with African grassroots organizations to address both the water and HIV/AIDS crises. Even when we partner with an organization to address only water, for example, we concentrate our efforts in areas that intersect with a high burden of HIV/AIDS. Late in 2015, one of our local Kenyan…
Read MoreCollect and Protect: Joaquina’s Story
Through water, sanitation, and hygiene training with one of our local partners, Joaquina learned how important it is to always draw water from a safe, protected source or to boil the water prior to consumption when that isn’t possible. As soon as she started implementing the new practices she learned, she saw…
Read MoreThank YOU for Tuning In
On Friday, the Blood:Water staff visited The Wally Show studio to celebrate a successful end to the YOUganda event. The last day presented a seemingly impossible call to action for Wally’s listeners, but they did not shy away from the challenge, making Friday the most impactful day! During the four-day, on-air event, Wally invited…
Read MoreMOUCECORE: Mobilizing Communities for Holistic Transformation
Blood:Water has partnered with MOUCECORE in its mission to bring about transformation at the community level in Rwanda since 2009. Working through solidarity transformation groups that grow out of the local church, MOUCECORE mobilizes communities to bring about holistic development. Through our partnership, important lessons have been learned about how to effectively and sustainably…
Read MoreA Handy Innovation in Africa
Today, the average person will touch their phone 2,617 times. We will touch our faces and other communal objects between 3.3-3.6 times per hour (and that is being conservative). Oh, and don’t forget that a swab of most floors will reveal around 230 bacterial species. But, no worries! A quick trip to the nearest…
Read MoreAddressing Water Shortage in a Desert Community
Bubisa means “windy place.” It is a harsh, desert environment in northern Kenya, where scarce resources like water are critical for survival for the people and their livestock, upon which they depend. In 1954, a borehole was installed in the community, and the population of both people and livestock has been consistently on the rise…
Read MoreThrow Back Thursday
Uganda 2013: Would you drink that water? During the 2013 season of Lent, we worked to bring Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) training to our friends in Uganda so they would learn the dangers of drinking water like this and become equipped on how to treat it. Back then, our Lent campaign was called 40…
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