Global Impact

/ 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,…

/ By Kristina Goetz For 10 years, a small group of dedicated people in Birmingham, Alabama have partnered with WaterStep to transform thousands of lives across Tanzania with safe water.  What started…

Nehemiah Maji still remembers the murky, rancid water of the Ungwan Pama stream in Kaduna state, Nigeria.  He gathered it in clay pots and let the sludge and silt settle before he could drink…

When Simon Ottaviano started primary school, he sat under the leathery leaves of an African fig tree, learning to write letters in the dirt with his finger. He sang songs…

WaterStep’s expertise and a mother’s compassion brought a Costa Rican community dignity through safe water / By Kristina Goetz Ana Lorena had already been working for WaterStep for six or…

/ By Kristina Goetz The day before Hurricane Helene hit Asheville, North Carolina, Liz Schaefle remembers it rained – consistent and solid – all day long. She lost power in…

During college at Belmont University, Mark Hogg went on a mission trip to build a dam in what is now Burkina Faso, a small, land-locked country in western Africa. The…

When Philip Wayaki Bongi was 7 years old, an elder named Yauwe died in his community.Yauwe’s son was an outspoken pastor of a local church, a respected man of status.“Where…