Posts by WaterStep

When Hurricane Melissa tore across Jamaica, it didn’t just rip roofs from homes and send rivers over their banks. It left behind something you can’t always see in the photos:…

/ By Kristina Goetz Faryad Masih starts his day in the dark in a place where spades and wheelbarrows are his tools. His wife Asia and their four children – Alisa,…

/ By Kristina Goetz For Jude Mugema, it all started with great intentions and big disappointment. Missionaries had come to Jude’s village, called Mpunge, in the Rakai district of southern Uganda…

/ Story by Kristina Goetz / Photos by Elisha Abumba Benard Okwach was a brave young man, just 21 years old, who wanted to change his life for the better. After…

/ Story by Kristina Goetz / Photos by Elisha Abumba Nyandeng Bol, a widowed mother of five, has known struggle for as long as she can remember. Nyandeng lives in the…

WaterStep is excited to announce the launch of a powerful new campaign, “The Beautiful Game vs The Greatest Crisis.” This initiative aims to harness the worldwide passion for soccer to help defeat…

/ By Kristina Goetz Victoria Oketch was expecting a complicated science experiment with vials of chemicals and hefty, technical equipment as she sat in a training session to learn about safe…

/ By Kristina Goetz It only happened once, but that was enough for Nicole Gilberth. She was so ashamed she left her classroom and stayed outside the rest of the afternoon,…

/ By Kristina Goetz WaterStep, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization specializing in global safe water solutions, has successfully implemented its WASHUp program across all 135 prisons in Kenya. This landmark achievement has…

Ayok Khot Kuol has watched so many people die from cholera in Duk County, South Sudan. As emergency response manager, Ayok is in charge of the John Dau Foundation’s cholera response,…