Water Blogged

The Environmental Advocacy Club at Ripon High in California focuses on learning sustainable practices and patterns for daily life implementation. We are eager and prepared to deepen our understanding of global and local issues we can address collectively. Our enthusiasm extends to fundraising efforts to positively impact areas in need of water and sanitation. We planned 2 fundraising events to help support Green Land Junior School in Uganda. The first was a Coin Drive at school. We set up four coin jars in each English classroom, labeling them for freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, making it a class competition to […]

The National Honor Society Comets Chapter is a small college preparatory school in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Through the community service program of their NHS Comets Chapter, students strive to significantly impact their school community and increase global awareness. The students aimed to raise awareness within their school community. As a result, the community service extended well beyond NJHS and NHS members; it saw robust participation from high school students who were not members and who are keen to participate again. As they learned about H2O For Life’s mission, participants became intent on raising further awareness and initiating more service […]

At Lydia Middleton Elementary School in Indiana, students engaged in a novel study of ‘A Long Walk to Water.’ They researched South Sudan and its people’s needs. Subsequently, they shared their findings with every classroom in the school. Lydia Middleton successfully applied for a $500 mini-grant to initiate their project. To generate additional funds, they held a candy gram sale. The students took charge of sales, money collection and accounting, card writing, assembly, and distribution of the candy grams. Ultimately, Lydia Middleton nearly quadrupled the grant money, raising $1,979.00 to contribute towards a borehole well in South Sudan. Here are […]

The new machine drilled well at La Chilena has been completed! Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. In a country where 37% of rural people have no safe drinking water (UNICEF) and 47% of the forest cover has disappeared over the last 50 years (UN Food and Agriculture Organization), these water, sanitation, and reforestation programs are a critical way to improve the living standards of the rural poor while conserving environmental resources. El Porvenir works in remote rural villages that lack access to most basic services and are too small to receive assistance from other organizations. […]

Mlandege Primary School, a government institution located in the Mseke sub-village of Mlandege village in the Iringa Rural district, serves 285 students ranging from nursery to standard seven, including 140 girls and 145 boys. The school employs 10 teachers and staff members. Similar to other villages and schools in Iringa, Mlandege School faced a significant challenge due to the absence of safe water. The students spent considerable time collecting water for domestic purposes such as drinking, cleaning, and cooking. Each morning, they were required to bring a 10-liter bucket of water to school. This water was collected from various sources […]