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…
The Eglise de Dieu en Christ de la nouvelle Alliance church of 400 people located in Tabarre, Haiti has been providing clean water to its community for almost three years now. We sat down with Wilner Sejousana, the water store operator, and Nadine Louis Pierre Saby, to hear from them about how safe water is…
We had the privilege of being accompanied by our good friend D’Anne Maddox, Director of Marketing at 1040.com, on a recent trip to visit sites in Guatemala. 1040 has blown us away with their kindness and generosity and if you ever have the chance to meet D’Anne, you will immediately understand that their company is made…
Stories of site inaugurations are some of our favorites. In partnership with Food for the Hungry, one of our latest site inaugurations occurred at Cristo Redentor, a community in the Dominican Republic where cholera has recently run rampant. As our headquarters staff took in the story of Cristo Redentor, we were reminded just how crucial access to clean…
Today we are going back to the basics. We believe that to truly understand the Global Water Crisis and its effect on the world, it is important to understand the history of countries where we are working to partner with communities to bring access to clean water. Our Director of Field Development & Partnerships, JJ Gomez, has…
There have been quite a few times in my life when I have heard about natural disasters, the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and various tsunamis and hurricanes. It seems like there is always something for the news to report. We live in a big world. In the past, I have heard the stories of devastation…