Water Blogged

H2O For Life and Race 2 Reduce were invited to Governor Dayton’s Press Release – you can read more here and find out how you can enter to win!

Yesterday’s WATER WINGS event with all its many tentacles raised close to $3,800 for our water project for the Shining Hope Girls Academy/SHOFCO via our partnership w/ H2O for Life plus additional funds for Bead for Life to further support African women and their children. To supplement our fundraising I will now write and have […]

H2O for Life is celebrating our 10 year anniversary providing education to US schools focused on the Global Water Crisis.  Thanks for joining over the years to support a partner school that desperately needed Water, Sanitation and hygiene education (WASH). Your participation changed many lives. Our program has touched more than 500,000 US youth, and […]

Porter Elementary walked with the community to our local fire station to donate water bottles. The winning class from the school-wide coin drive led the way. Ms. Carlson’s 3rd Grade class also took a tour of the fire station and learned how local emergency  help those who are in need and also provide water to […]

This is our first time that Porter fundraised for another country outside of Africa. It was exciting to connect my most recent trip to India and sponsoring of a well in India, and then seeing it happen again through H2O For Life with all the Porter students. We fundraised by selling T-shirts, glow in the […]

Porter students who raised $20 or more in sponsorships, participated in Water Day! They had a BLAST with slip n’ slides, water relay races, slippery tug o’ war, and a massive water balloon fight. It was one exhilarating way to end the H20 For Life fundraising events. More that 35 children participated in the event, […]

Sara Damon is an AP Geography teacher at Stillwater Junior High School near Minneapolis, Minnesota. Since 2009, she and her students have been studying the global water crisis and raising funds for schools in South Sudan through H2O for Life. As a part of a lesson plan Sara created for H2O for Life called The Ripple […]

Submitted by – Sara Damon In honor of International Women’s Day, a picture of Morgan G., Lyxie M. and Sarah S. These young women spoke about our project last week at the Stillwater Sunrise Rotary Club. They delivered a polished presentation and handled on-the-spot questions like pros! We have a busy spring of awareness raising […]

We are teaching mission awareness in our youth, along with Catholic Social Teaching to instill how important water is and prompt Catholic Social Justice. We are walking to show solidarity with and raise pledges for our brothers and sisters at this school in Tanzania. Submitted by – Debbie Heid

A unique approach to fighting the water crisis Lots of organizations are doing great work to fight the global water crisis. H2O for Life is doing things a little differently. Our service-learning opportunity is designed to engage, educate, and inspire youth to become global citizens and help fight the global water crisis. Our school-to-school approach […]