“We need foods: rice and water.” WaterStep team’s Kylene White and Chris Kenning followed water training attendees to Tacloban City, one of the areas hardest hit by last month’s typhoon. Photos by Kylene White View the full photo gallery. The WaterStep team wrapped up their last day of training today, training a total of 151 … Read more
WaterStep team and training attendees talk about the first day of training at WaterStep’s training center in the Philippines that was set up earlier this week. Video by Kylene White Make a donation to WaterStep’s disaster relief work in the Philippines on our Philippines page. After two days of training, the WaterStep team in … Read more
WaterStep CEO Mark Hogg from Cebu City, Philippines, where WaterStep is setting up a training center to train disaster relief nonprofits in the installation, operation, and maintenance of WaterStep’s M-100 Chlorine Generator. Video by Kylene White.A team of five, including Mark Hogg, WaterStep Director of Field Operation Kurtis Daniels, engineer Juan Emmanuel Afable, Courier Journal … Read more
A group of University of Louisville students left early this morning, carrying 60 water purifiers in their luggage destined for Cebu City, Philippines. Read more about the efforts these amazing students are contributing to and what they’re doing to save lives with safe water in the article posted by the Louisville Courier-Journal. To learn … Read more
WaterStep staff and volunteers talk about packing to send 60 water purifiers to Cebu City, Philippines. There WaterStep is setting up a training center to teach the installation, operation, and maintenance of the M-100 Chlorine Generator, a water purifier that can produce up to 10,000 gallons of safe water daily, providing safe water to up … Read more
Thursday night at the 2013 Ali Awards, WaterStep CEO Mark Hogg was awarded the Kentucky Humanitarian of the Year. Other award winners included former President Jimmy Carter, Michael Bolton and Christina Aguilera. The awards ceremony honored the winners for their commitment to different causes: water, hunger-relief, gender equality and more. Muhammed Ali, his wife Yolonda, … Read more
Our own Mark Hogg, Founder and CEO, has been selected as the Kentucky Humanitarian of the Year and will be awarded with this honor on Thursday, October 3rd at The Inaugural Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards: An Evening of Recognizing Greatness. The event will be a night of celebration, recognition and inspiration honoring humanitarians who exemplify … Read more
Natalie Hymer, ambassador for WaterStep, was awarded the President’s Award from Georgetown College for academic achievement, leadership, service, and potential as a scholar and Christian leader.This is Hymer’s fourth summer working at WaterStep. She has worked as an intern, managed mission sites, and is currently planning a trip to Daréin, Panama for WaterStep with Tori … Read more
Guest blogger Kinsey Morrison shares stories from Costa Rica below.First an earthquake, then the Harlem Shake. Thanks to Jeremiah’s creativity and iPhone with an app for everything, we started Wednesday off with a team Harlem Shake before we left for the day’s work. Our incredible bus driver, Wilson, said afterward, “I have done things with … Read more
Matt Ness, of Eyes That See, attended WaterStep’s Water, Health and Hygiene training in early 2013 before traveling to Ethiopia. During a post-trip interview he shared some the excitement he and his team experienced while traveling. Matt installed two systems during the trip, one in a “day-type orphanage” that he runs in Ethiopia and one … Read more
