Clean water, sanitation, and hygiene weren’t accessible to the Golders family and they were often ill. But a latrine and water tank changed their lives!
What clean water means to the Golder family
Clean Water
Dream team: When foreign assistance meets sponsorship
World Vision sponsorship brought clean water to a Kenyan community. U.S. foreign assistance helped provide a pipeline to extend water to even more people!
World Water Day: The Impact of Water around the World
By Beth Ann Saracco, policy advisor for food security and livelihoods and Catherine Namwezi, World Vision intern with the Government Relations and Advocacy team Sometimes it is easy to think of issues affecting poverty as individual problems that need to be solved one-by-one, like providing clean water, food security, protection for children, education, and providing … Read More
A Sincere Thank You
Lisa Bos, World Vision’s senior policy adviser for health, education, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), has been working on the other side of the Water for the World Act for the past three years– on Capitol Hill, in the halls of Congress. She knows everything that has gone into passing this bill and even … Read More
To D.C. and Back
By Dave Erickson “Do you mean, like filtered water?” That question came from the bank teller standing in front of me a few days ago. She had asked me if I’d traveled anywhere recently. I told her my wife and I had attended a clean water conference in Washington D.C. I knew she was thinking … Read More
Water for the World
Clean water, sanitation and good hygiene are basic necessities most Americans take for granted, but for many children around the world, they can be the difference between life and death. In the world today, nearly one billion people lack access to drinking water from an improved drinking water source such as a simple hand pump … Read More