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Global Studies and Science Programming Leads to Successful Walk for Water in Prior Lake!

Posted by Mitchell LeGrand on August 24, 2021

On Tuesday, June 1st, more than eight hundred eighth-grade students at Twin Oaks Middle School completed their service-learning project that culminated in a full day of walking for water. For seven periods, each class of students walked with one or two eight-pound water jugs in the hot Minnesota sun, emulating the difficult experience of carrying […]

Kayindu Project Complete

Posted by Steve Hall on August 16, 2021

Before: Due to significant leaks in the two rainwater collection tanks already located on their premises, the students and staff of Kayindu Secondary School are forced to make the long walk to the distant borehole well. This is something that would be challenging enough for the students, but is made even more difficult by the […]

H2O for Life Featured on PBS NewsHour

Posted by Nick Coughlin on August 12, 2021

PBS special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro featured H2O for Life as part of his series, “Agents for Change.” “Drinking water and restrooms are readily available to most school children in America. That is not the case across the developing world.” Watch the segment here.

Navajo Nation Update

Posted by Steve Hall on August 9, 2021

Our implementing partner, DigDeep, submitted this update on the support H2O for Life helped provide for Navajo Nation during the 2020-2021 school year: We are grateful for H2O for Life’s interest in the work of DigDeep. It is our pleasure to share information about the water storage tanks funded by H2O for Life on the […]

Ugandan Well Successfully Drilled

Posted by Steve Hall on July 26, 2021

Pader Secondary School’s only option for clean water was to buy it from a nearby trading center. For a school this large, the financial burden of having to buy water each day left them struggling to stay afloat. The school urgently needed a well of its own in order for it to stay operational and […]

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