In Tanzania, a young girl returns from her trip to the local borehole well carrying the ubiquitous yellow water container on her head. She smiles, partially because there is someone here to smile at (it’s her natural reaction to people), but also because her trips for water have shortened from hours to minutes. Easy water […]
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You Can’t Help Everyone, But You Can Start With One
Uzima founder, Bill Coble, bears witness daily to the magnitude of the world’s water crisis as he leads our sister organization, Start With One, in Nakuru, Kenya. Today, while distributing water filters in a town called Rongai, Bill and his team found tears in their eyes after meeting a new friend, Anne Njeri Muthinji. On […]
What’s The Deal With Clean Water?
Autocratic regimes dot the global landscape. Human trafficking crimes are enabled and perpetrated by the wealthy as a modern form of oppression and slavery. HIV/AIDS is still a global epidemic which is almost never talked about anymore. With all these problems and more in the world, why would we choose to focus on clean water? […]