Join Together to Assure Success West Nile Schools Gain Access to Clean Water through Cooperation Built in the early 1980s, the Ugandan rural school of Owere, is filled each day with 785 children between six and 15 years old, learning and acquiring new skills. Until recently, the children also had to walk down to the Nile River to drink water and fetch water for hand washing. Owere Primary School had no running water, and parents and teachers worried that that their children would get drawn in the river as they crowded around it to...
Read MoreJanuary 17, 2012 Dear Friends, For ten years, Bob Dell and I have been working together to help bring clean and safe drinking water to children in developing countries. It is time to retire from our day-to-day activities with Water School and we have come to the decision to step down from our respective roles as CEO and President. Both Bob and I are as strongly committed to Water School today as we have ever been. It is time for fresh ideas and energized leadership to take Water School to even greater heights and for us to...
Read MoreWhat a week! Our Water School trip to East Africa has flown by and today marks the final day of our two weeks here. Since my last update there has been a whirlwind of activity with our friends from AWWOA leaving us and two long-time supporters, Sam Dennis and Lisa Moody joining us for the Ugandan leg of our journey. We left for Kampala last Sunday and after traffic, flight delays, a bumpy plane ride and more traffic, we finally made it! Our first stop was to the Water School office, where we met our field staff and were given an...
Read MoreOn our second day of project visits, we met with our longest running partner, Christian Mission Aid(CMA) and visited a rural school of the Maasai people. The Maasai are one of the best known African ethnic groups, due to their distinctive customs and dress and residence near the many game parks of East Africa. The trip out to the school was an adventure in itself with Jacob, our CMA representative, commenting on the potholes saying “the roads could hide an elephant!” and a lucky glimpse at a herd of Zebras grazing in...
Read More24 hours after leaving our home and native land, our new Director of Fundraising, Jill Bridgman and I arrived in Nairobi, blurry-eyed but excited to start our two-week tour of Water School projects in Kenya and Uganda. The first leg of our trip started Sunday when we met up with CEO Fraser Edwards and board member Tony Woodruff and his wife who had already spent a week in Uganda and were brimming with stories of the amazing people they had met and the life-changing projects they has visited in their first week here in...
Read MoreIt was a long, hot, steamy and exhausting day yesterday (August 30). While we work in many difficult areas around the world, we are definitely dealing with a situation of incredible hardship here in the poorest areas of southern and western Dominican Republic. The cholera epidemic that spread in Haiti last year has now taken hold in impoverished areas in the south. It can be hard to believe this exists so close to North America. Today, we visited a very large hospital in Santo Domingo and had a meeting with the director. It was a very...
Read MoreThe 2nd Annual Golf for Clean Water Charity Tournament at Deer Creek Golf Club, near Toronto was held last Thursday and was a huge success raising $15,000 for Water School projects in Africa and Haiti. The weather was perfect with not a cloud in the sky as the 52 participants were treated to 18 holes of golf on a par 71 championship course. Golfers played a best ball format so the day could be enjoyed equally by both serious golfers and ones new to the sport. Awards were handed out to the wining team as well as the “most honest”...
Read MoreWater School has been teaching SODIS and health and hygiene practices in Zombo District, Uganda. Recently we checked back to see how the program has been affecting locals. “I learned how diseases spread and how to keep things clean.” says Charles Bichala , who now teaches other people in Nyarka village better hygiene practices. Hygiene and Sanitation Proper hygiene and sanitation practices are minimal in rural Uganda and poor hygiene poses a serious threat...
Read MoreWater School was recently featured on Paul Sladkus’s Good News Planet! They did a great interview with us that you can watch it below. “Water School – Bob Dell, President and research scientist Bradley Pierik shares their Good News. www.waterschool.com The Water School implements its program through existing agencies in the beneficiary area. Local community groups schools, churches, hospitals, government institutions who have a vision for clean water, are championing the process and working in their communities to bring...
Read MoreOne of the most frequent questions we get asked is: “How can I get involved in Water School?” While there are a whole bunch of ways you can get involved with Water School in every case you become a Water School ambassador, educating and advocating for Water School and, more importantly, the projects and people we are involved with. Most of the people that ask how to get involved simply don’t know where to start. That’s why we’ve partnered with CrowdRise to give you another way to get involved (checkout Water...
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