After more than 24 impactful years of implementing comprehensive safe water, sanitation and hygiene education programs in some of the most rural and underserved communities of Haiti and Honduras, Pure Water for the World, Inc. (PWW) is closing its doors. With the persistent economic realities of increased financial pressures and fundraising challenges inhibiting the organization’s Continue reading
Last year, we introduced the LIFE-Honduras Consortium, established to meet the unprecedented needs of migrating individuals and families, traveling through Honduras, and proactively address the demands migration is having on local communities (read November 2022 story). The LIFE-Honduras Consortium is made up of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Pure Water for the World (PWW), Continue reading
Blog written by Emery Letendre, PWW Intern. Shared with permission. This summer I traveled to Honduras for eight weeks with Pure Water for the World. I created a survey to study the menstrual hygiene and health needs of women migrating through Honduras. The survey had five main objectives: Determine which types of menstrual products are Continue reading
Blog written by Holly Dickson. Shared with permission. I read recently about a lady whose cat alerted her to a fire in the next room, a fire she hadn’t noticed because she was content elsewhere – happily immersed in a good book. Musing about this, she said: “We cannot insulate ourselves from others, hiding behind Continue reading
Lisa and Griffin Martinez of South Burlington, Vermont organized and rode in their second Ride for Safe Water fundraiser on Saturday, July 22. They did their first fundraising ride in July of 2021. They mapped out a 20-mile course in their hometown of South Burlington. “It was a challenging ride, but very rewarding to be Continue reading
Your generosity makes a difference! Below, please find our FY2023 impact report and highlights from the year. *click on the images to make larger or click here to download a copy As we begin a new fiscal year, our teams have ambitious goals to advance this impactful work and bring WASH programs to Continue reading
We are excited to participate in the 30th year celebration of the biosand water filter! #BSF30 The biosand water filter (BSF) was developed by Dr. David Manz at the University of Calgary, Canada in the 1990s. Committed to providing professional services for humanitarian distribution of the BSF in developing countries, in 2001, Dr. Manz co-founded Continue reading
This spring, Quinn Slingerland, a recent graduate of the University at Albany School of Public Health, interned with PWW, focusing her work on advancing our Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) program in Haiti. Results from her internship can be found in detail on this poster (click here to view). The goal of Quinn’s internship was to Continue reading
La Chaîne is a small, closely-knit neighborhood, made up of 60 families. La Chaîne is in the underserved community of Roucou, located in the Limonade region of northern Haiti. The families in La Chaîne face numerous challenges in their daily lives. Lack of access to water is among the most critical. Water scarcity has a Continue reading
Written by Junior Seraphin, WASH Training Coordinator, PWW Haiti With the goal of curbing diseases that affect schoolchildren, the PWW team in Haiti organized four days of training for students and teachers at the Henri Christophe School. This program is part of the Community Education Program (CEP) introduced in Haiti last year (read more). The Continue reading
