Change-Maker: Carsten Pran, PWW Volunteer and Fundraiser In June, 17 students and adults joined our PWW-Honduras team for a week of service. The team of volunteers spent five days installing water filters and piping, building latrines, administering anti-parasite medication, and interacting with Honduran children and families. Sixteen-year old Carsten Pran, a high school student from California, shares Continue reading
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Why I Keep Going Back
Two years ago, Eric Johnson and a group of fellow Rotarians from his club in Tampa, Florida, were visiting Honduras for the first time on a volunteer trip with Pure Water for the World. Their trip began with a visit to the local health clinic in Trojes. Eric and his peers learned that the patients Continue reading
Teenage Volunteer Shares Her Honduras Experience
In June, 8 teens and 11 adults traveled with Pure Water for the World to volunteer by installing water filters and latrines in rural communities in the mountainous Trojes region of Honduras. Upon their return, we spoke with one of the teens on the trip…15-year old Gabrielle, a rising high school sophomore student from Texas. Continue reading
We All Stood and Cheered
As Told by Randy Thompson I have been going to Haiti for six years now. Along the way I have received a treasure trove of memories that warm my heart. One of them was just outside a school in Cité Soleil. We had a group of folks on a due diligence trip (you should consider Continue reading
Cité Soleil…etched in my heart.
As told by Susan Thomas Three years ago, I went to Haiti to work with Pure Water for the World to help install simple bio-sand water filter systems in homes and in schools in Haiti. We did that. But there was one area that we went to that has not left my heart…Cité Soleil. This place Continue reading
Memories from my first visit to Honduras
As Told by Katie Reed In April of 2012 my husband, Michael, and I went on a working trip to Honduras with Pure Water for the World. He had previously gone on a similar trip to Haiti with Pure Water and liked the work they are doing so much, we decided to volunteer long-term in Continue reading
Memories from Honduras…
As told by Eric Johnson, Wesley Chapel Rotary Club. Traveling to another country is always an adventure! Whenever you experience another culture, you often see, taste, touch and smell things for the first time. It changes you. You grow as a person.Your faith in yourself grows. After every trip to Honduras, with Pure Water for Continue reading