Posts Tagged ‘Kenya’
The Countdown is On: One Thousand Hours for “One Thousand Wells”
Co-founder Jena Lee Nardella’s memoir, “One Thousand Wells,” was released yesterday! To celebrate, we are spending the surrounding one thousand hours providing two schools in Kenya with clean water. Here’s the breakdown: 2 schools + 2 water tanks = 800 kids with clean water For $100, you can help make sure 800 kids in Kenya…
Read MoreKenya Help? Update: See What YES has Meant
Last year, Wally asked the loyal listeners of The Wally Show on WAY-FM, Kenya Help?The answer was a resounding, “yes!” And because of the generosity of Wally’s listeners, huge things are happening in Kenya. In fact, more than 2,000 moms, dads, and kids are receiving medical treatment and access to safe, clean water. One group…
Read MoreServing Marsabit: 27,000 Square Miles of Outreach
We love our updates from our UNC Intern, Grace, from the Tumaini Medical Center in Kenya. Here she introduces you to our Community Health Workers, who are very important to creating lasting change when it comes to fighting the HIV/AIDS crisis. During my time so far in Kenya, I have been privileged to meet a few of…
Read MoreChecking in from Marsabit: Meet Ida
Our UNC Intern, Grace, has settled into Marsabit, Kenya, at the Tumaini Clinic. Check out her latest post: Meet Ida Njeru. Ida recently moved to Marsabit from Meru (over 300 km away and approximately a five-hour drive) to work at Tumaini Clinic as a treatment adherence counselor and social worker. Although her husband and family…
Read MoreA Safe Arrival in Kenya
We are excited to introduce you to Grace, our UNC intern who will be spending the summer working with our local partner in Marsabit, Kenya. She’ll be keeping us updated weekly on what she’s up to, and we just received our first update! Blood:Water welcomed me as an intern from UNC Gillings School of Global…
Read MoreVending 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 government, is bringing safe water to Nairobi slums through a vending machine style kiosk. Users pay using a smart…
Read MoreA Day Rich in Discussion and Learning
Because of the time difference, day two of the Partner Summit has already wrapped up! The day was rich in discussion. The focus of the day was peer learning and exchange, and each of our partners presented unique aspects of their programs that might be areas of learning for one another. We were excited to…
Read MoreA Blood:Water Dream Come True
Today kicks off Blood:Water’s first-ever Partner Summit. All of our partners from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia are currently gathered together with our Africa Partnerships team for a week of collaborative learning. We know that Africa holds the leadership, creativity, passion, and resolve necessary to address the HIV/AIDS and water crises. And this unique…
Read MoreThrowback Thursday
For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we go to Kenya 2011. The woman in this photo had just walked 21 miles to reach a well (i.e. clean water). 21 miles! She could have walked to a nearby stream and collected water that would have made her and her family sick. But, instead she sacrificed time to…
Read MoreThrowback Thursday
This coming Sunday is World Water Day. In honor of the entire world uniting to quench the thirst of millions, we throw it back to some of the many projects you’ve helped fund since our start in 2004. Rainwater Catchment Tank Built in Kenya, 2008 These are just a few of the projects you’ve helped…
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