Over the last few months our team at Healing Waters has been updating our look and we are so excited to finally unveil one of the finishing touches: our new logo! The creation of this logo was inspired by water table elevation maps. These maps use a line and a small upside down triangle to indicate the location of…
Let’s say you show up in Sierra Leone and meet Joseph, a hard-working kid who just graduated high school with high marks. He desperately wants to go to college, but his options are limited. There are no academic scholarships, no student loans. Right now he’s working for $1.50/day, if lucky saving $1/week, so if he…
The Economic Impact of Clean Water Happy World Water day! Did you know that every $1 invested in water and sanitation provides a $4 economic return? Or that the time spent gathering water around the world translates to $24 billion in lost economic benefits each year? Think about all of the industries that require safe water to…
If you have Arachnophobia—the kind where mentioning spiders may cause you to have a panic attack—you might want to skip this post. So my first night in Sierra Leone, I’m brushing my teeth with bottled water, getting ready for bed. I glance up on the wall and almost had a panic attack of my own. The biggest…
I grew up in a church and always wanted more than just stories about God. If He was real then I expected to see Him at work! If we really believed the words we sang in the hymns then we should behave like it. That’s who I am – looking for a real God and…
I have to be honest, when Kayla (our Director of Development & Marketing) brought the idea of our team making New Year’s resolutions and blogging about them I was less than thrilled. People who know me understand why – I have publicly poo-pooed (in a good-natured way) the idea of resolutions many times in past sermons…
Happy New Year from the Healing Waters Team! At Healing Waters, we love the start of a new year. Full of possibility and excitement, it gives us the opportunity to look ahead and dream big, which is exactly what we’ve done. And this year we’re pretty excited about our New Year’s resolutions… As an organization, our New…
Our friends at Jibu were featured in an article on The Guardian‘s website about the work they are doing in Africa to create entrepreneurship opportunities that will make clean water much more affordable and accessible in Uganda, Rwanda and many other countries. Jibu uses Healing Water’s as its sole provider of water filtration systems, using…
Dear Friends, Fresh wind, fresh fire. That has been one of my mantras this past year. When we feed a flame with fresh wind, the fire can grow exponentially. This is what is happening with the ministry of Healing Waters. More than at any other time we have the capacity to see exponential growth, in the communities…