Happy September! To celebrate H2O for Life’s TENTH ANNUAL WATER BALL (and our tenth year weaving potholders for water and human rights causes), we sent fifty potholders with new designs and colors to Minnesota today to arrive in time for the Water Ball on Saturday. We will proudly represent H2O for Life (as well as […]
Mena Primary School is located in Lobule which is a large refugee camp on the western side of Uganda. It is near the border of South Sudan and the Congo. Of the 763 local Ugandan children at the school, 29 are disabled. All of these students were in urgent need of clean water. Now they […]
Check out the new latrines these students at Escuela Nancital in Ciudad Darío, Nicaragua now have access to! We believe all people deserve clean water, safe sanitation, and the knowledge to sustain it for future generations. Our implementing partner, El Porvenir, partners with the people of Nicaragua so that they can build a better future […]
Kimu Primary School is located in Lobule which is a large refugee camp on the western side of Uganda. It is near the border of South Sudan and the Congo. The school has 463 students including 32 disabled children and 97 refugee children. All of these students were in urgent need of clean water. This […]
We love our partnership with project implementer Drop in the Bucket! Here’s a sneak peek into their work in Uganda and photos of some recently completed projects H2O for Life schools have helped support. BUILDING WELLS Building a well is fairly simple, but it’s a longer term commitment to help ensure it stays functional for […]
Last Saturday night marked H2O for Life’s 10th annual Water Ball. Nearly 300 guests and volunteers attended the celebration, which featured keynote speeches from Kim Cabrera (teacher), Brycelyn Turner (student), and Kayla Cabrera (student) from Varsity Lakes Middle School in Lehigh Acres, Florida. The event raised over $180,000 to support our national educational outreach efforts. […]
The programs of our implementing project partner in India, GRAVIS, are mainly committed towards the well being of rural communities, particularly marginalized children, women and the elderly. The philosophy in which GRAVIS believes focuses on holistic development of villages through safe water, education and health amenities. Keeping this vision of the organization in view, the […]
Mary Rodgers, former teacher at Abington High School in PA, and H2O for Life founder, Patty Hall met at a youth leadership conference in New Mexico in 2007. H2O for Life was beginning their first year as a service-learning organization. Mary was highly interested in water resources and was one of the first schools to […]
Our implementing partner, Freshwater Project International, is excited to report a successful installation of the water point at Mselera Primary School in Malawi! The school originally had NO clean water source and students had to fetch water from a shallow, contaminated pond or walk a long distance to an old community borehole and wait in […]
Ever since the installation of their rain tank last year, students and staff at Sabane Primary School in Kenya have had safe and clean water that is easily accessible in the school compound. We were told on a recent visit how cases of typhoid and diarrhea, which once ran rampant through the school population, are […]