The following story was written by our Regional Health and Hygiene trainer in Chiapas, Mexico, following her stay in the village of Nuevo Paraíso, where our Mexico team installed a water purification system and launched our Children’s Health & Hygiene Education program, “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made.” Mother, Synonymous with Life Nuevo Paraíso, Chiapas. Place of commitment to…
“How do you select where you’re going to put a clean water project?” I got this question the other day when I was talking with a guest who was visiting our office and checking out our water purification systems. After taking a few seconds to think about it, I got to share with her how every…
Last week, I got to travel with an awesome group of people and visit our clean water projects in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. This was my first trip since joining the team at Healing Waters International so it meant I was actually interacting with our technology in the field for the first time. Here…
By Elise Kemp, Marketing and Development Intern Who knew that I, an ordinary college student, could become so passionate about something as simple as water? When I was applying to colleges, I wrote my application essay on the vitality of water and how that connects to the vitality of hope that is missing in communities all over…
By Jessie Matteson, Owner of Jessie Nichole Photography Sometimes I get overwhelmed with the opportunities that have landed in my lap. I feel so undeserving and so inadequate. There is a lot of noise out there about being grateful for opportunities and having a positive mindset about new challenges. But if there is a very real situation troubling…
For the past few years, the University of Colorado has hosted a WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) Symposium at their Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex in Boulder. They bring together global leaders from the WASH sector to discuss how we can learn from each other as we all work towards the same goals—improving sanitation practices…
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…