Part of making history in the Amazon
The Cooperation Roundtable for Conservation and Sustainable Development has been established in the province of Morona Santiago in Ecuador. Thanks to the provincial government’s leadership, the Prefecture of Morona Santiago and various institutions have formed a lasting and fruitful work platform. The Waterbearers organization is honored to be part of this prestigious team of international conservation ...
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My Own Personal ONE BUCKET Challenge by Angela Stanfield – Ontario, Canada Water is so important for life. In western society we all depend on a ready supply of clean, filtered water that we can use to drink, cook, clean and bathe. This is not always true in other parts of the world. That is ...
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The Waterbearers Organization: How Women Are Creating a Ripple Effect with Clean Water BY JEAN TREBEK | OCT 15, 2021 | CHARITIES, FEATURED, GUEST WRITERS The Power of Women Clean Water… something that many of us take for granted… yet there are people all around the world suffering from water vulnerability. A trio of women decided to do something about it and ...
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Thanks to all those who supported The Waterbearers’ World Water Day 2021 fundraiser on March 22, and to Precious Nyadongo in Zimbabwe who brought another community in need of clean water to our attention. On April 19, a solar-powered borehole was installed in the rural community of Battlefield. Now, more than 2000 people will have ...
Read more BRITISH EXPATS GET THEIR HANDS DIRTY FOR A GOOD CAUSE
November 9, Cuenca, Ecuador. Ten British expats were “corralled” by the recently appointed Honorary British Consul Gary Manners, to join in a Minka with the Prefectura of Azuay to help plant trees in rural Tarqui. Gary and his handful of merry Brits got down and dirty, digging holes, planting trees, and shoveling dirt alongside indigenous ...
Read more Water plays a pivotal role in how the world mitigates and adapts to the effects of climate change.
The global climate crisis is inextricably linked to water. Climate change increases variability in the water cycle, inducing extreme weather events, reducing the predictability of water availability, affecting water quality. Agriculture accounts for 70% of the world’s freshwater to grow produce and sustain livestock. Corporate farms that can afford the “longest straws” get the water, ...
Read more FILTERED WATER CURES MAN IN UGANDA
In March 2019, while visiting rural communities in Uganda for The Waterbearers distribution and training program we met a young man, Pastor Modi Emmanuel Victor from Wampologoma Village who shared his story. As we walked along the banks of the River Nile, he explained what happened to him a year ago. He was visiting the ...
Read more CLEAN WATER FOR GOLU
The Waterbearers partnered with The Village Link to build two rain harvesting systems in rural Sierra Leone. The children in Golu just learned that clean water is coming to their school.
Read more CLEAN WATER TO SLUMS IN POKHARA NEPAL
After meeting up with Jane Brinton Co-Founder of The Waterbearers in Cuenca Ecuador not long after we first moved there, we discovered that we had similar interests in helping others. I found out she was headed to Nepal and I got so excited because I knew I was headed there too about the same time. ...
Read more SPRING BREAK IN MAE SOT THAILAND
By Kylie and Morgan Greenwald For teenagers, summertime gives students a much-needed break from the rigors of school. For us, Morgan and Kylie, we chose to use our time off to distribute water filters in Asia. This month, we traveled to Thailand and Myanmar to help both villages and schools. In December of 2017, we ...
Read more SEVEN MONTHS AFTER HURRICANE MARIA
By Jane Brinton In April 2018, I traveled to Puerto Rico from Ecuador with Andres Morales, our Waterbearer Ambassador and Amazon guide, who has accompanied us on many trips in Ecuador and Latin America. In San Juan, we were met by the Black Flag Search and Rescue team, which was founded by Jana Stone during the Standing ...
Read more FLOOD RELIEF IN SIERRA LEONE
By Jane Brinton, Co-Founder | Executive Director of The Waterbearers On August 14, a deadly mudslide killed more than 600 people in the mountain town of Regent on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital. Audrey Kissik had just couriered 200 Sawyer filters for The Waterbearers over to neighboring Liberia, and within 24 hours she ...
Read more BIG ISLAND WATER
CLEAN WATER SOLUTIONS FOR THE BIG ISLAND ON WORLD WATER DAY (MAR 22) As part of a humanitarian effort for the upcoming UN sanctioned World Water Day (March 22), The Waterbearers and partner Waves For Water will provide water filters and sustainability training to those looking for a simple economic solution to keep their drinking water ...
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