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…
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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…
“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…
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…
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…
“To educate girls is to reduce poverty.”- Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General We couldn’t agree more with Kofi Annan. Yet there are so many factors that can keep a girl in a developing country out of school and trapped in a cycle of poverty. And dirty water happens to be one of the biggest! Girls under the…
Located on Lake George in Western Uganda, the small community of Nyakera has not had the opportunity to reach its full potential, one full of so many rich resources, because of one simple fact: Over 100 Years of No Clean Water. Sustainable Missions Inc. (SMI) and the Nyakera Gospel Center have joined with Healing Waters to help this…