FEB. 15, 2018, UGANDA — In eastern Uganda, a community is still reeling from the Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency more than a decade ago. Children like 5-year-old Grace must walk a long way for dirty water while parents are still walking an emotional path of healing. Through it all, access to clean water would help everyone heal and have a fuller life.
News & Stories
Clean Water
From the Field
A clean water project orchestrated by God
Donors, two communities, and World Vision worked together like a beautiful symphony to bring clean water to thousands of Hondurans.
Change Makers
Watermill Express: ‘Seeing hope and a better future’ for children
In the 1980s, Lani Dolifka learned the water flowing through the faucet in her Colorado home had been declared unsafe. It inspired Lani and her husband, Don, to develop an automated small-scale purification plant that converted their tap water into pure drinking water. Today, their company, Watermill Express, is the largest drive-up pure drinking water company in the U.S.
Prayers
Praying for clean water preparations
As families prepare to receive clean water, they also prepare their homes with six key elements that will ensure proper sanitation and hygiene.
Voices
Podcast with Belynda Gentry of First Baptist Church of Glenarden
This edition of the World Vision podcast features a conversation with Reverend Belinda Gentry from First Baptist Church of Glenarden in Maryland.
Voices
Universal Children’s Day: A reason to listen
As parents, it’s much easier to talk than to listen. But listening is what our children need us to do. It’s a hallmark of World Vision’s work to involve everyone in decision making — men, women, and children. Every year on November 20, Universal Children’s Day reminds us to listen to children around the world, children who see problems from a point of view that we adults have long forgotten.
From the Field
Walking in Sabina’s shoes: Clean water makes her free at last
Walk in the shoes of a Kenyan woman as she struggles to find clean water for her family, and learn what brought her arduous journey to an end.
Voices
Clean water: This generation’s moon shot
Humanity has never been able to bring clean water to everyone. But now there’s a goal to do so, and World Vision is playing a leading role in achieving this “moon shot.”
Voices
The desperation of dirty water
Have you ever been lost in the woods — literally or figuratively? Have you rationed your resources, preparing for the worst? Families who can’t access clean water feel this kind of desperation every day. Blogger Rachel Teodoro has met some of these families. Read one of their stories, and learn a simple way you can give them hope!
Voices
A Kenya childhood: Growing up without clean water
Growing up in rural Kenya, Sam Irungu knew the daily struggle of collecting dirty water from the early age of 5. Today, he works as a software engineer for World Vision! He attributes this change to God: an answer to his mother’s prayer to redeem the life of God’s children for a better tomorrow.