Even before I started at Healing Waters, World Water Day was such a unique concept to me. On one particular day, millions of people around the world join with members of their own community to draw attention to, ask questions about, and celebrate a really simple thing: water. Upon joining the team at Healing Waters,…
The most important message I can share with anyone about our work, and the one that we cannot come back to often enough, is not what we do or how we do it, but why we do it. Here’s what I have adopted as my mantra – and every time I read it or say…
What can you do with one billion liters of clean, safe water? That’s how many liters you, the supporters, donors, volunteers and partners of Healing Waters International have helped deliver in the first 15 years of the life of this organization! On February 15 we are celebrating our 15th birthday and it’s all thanks to…
Whether we choose it or not, each of our lives are saturated by outside influences. For the millennial generation more often than not, one of those influences is social media. We spend hours scrolling through feeds in awe of photos that depict adventure, freedom, and perfectly frosted donuts and then hours more curating our own photos…
When I have the opportunity to travel to the field, I get excited about seeing new installations and meeting with people who will receive safe water for the first time in their community. On my most recent trip, I was caught up in the anticipation as we set up for the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the inauguration of…
Source: Latin American Herald Tribune CAMOTAN, Guatemala – About a decade ago, the “rain began to fail” one May and summer came early in the Guatemala’s impoverished Dry Corridor. Since then, scanty precipitation has hurt the local harvests, but local peasant farmers have found a solution: they have learned to harvest the rain by collecting rainwater.…
I’m so excited to join the HWI team! It’s been a strange, windy road getting here but the team and my role feel like a perfect fit. Allow me to introduce myself and how I got here: New Program Manager at Healing Waters International I have been passionate about international development and poverty alleviation since high…
What do water and child nutrition have to do with each other? Just about everything, when considering how often children come into contact with it. Bathing, drinking, eating produce and wearing laundered clothes are all instances where children come interact with water, let alone ingest it. Water is a life-giving source, and can contribute positively…
“Eat, drink, and be merry.” When our development and marketing team suggested this as the theme for our year-end letter, at first I thought it sounded a tad too trite. But, the more I hear it, the more I see a deeper meaning and compelling vision. Like most of you, I relish Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners with…