A team of students from University of Louisville installed WaterStep’s M-100 water purifier at Paril School in the Philippines, where they traveled this past week to set up a dental clinic. In this area, juice and soda is cheaper than water, and safe water was key to the UofL students’ dental work. This installation was … Read more
WaterStep Installation In Tacloban from WaterStep on Vimeo. Shoji Castillo, 24, of the Rotary Club of Cebu, installs a donated water purifier in Tacloban City, one of the areas hardest hit in the Philippines by last month’s typhoon.Shoji attended the first day of WaterStep’s training in Cebu City. Video by Kylene White.WaterStep’s Kylene White and … Read more
“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
Guest Blogger CoraLyn Turentine writes about her experience in Haiti this past September. Read her last blog post about Haiti here. Also: A lot of work has been done, but there is still work to do. Support the current project in Haiti by donating a few dollars. What happened on the September 2013 water trip … Read more
Guest blogger CoraLyn Turentine shares her experience working with WaterStep in Haiti, where WaterStep has worked since 2006. Often times, people are critical of international development organizations and the impact their efforts have on developing countries. As an undergraduate student studying sociology and anthropology, we were taught that the majority of international organizations are ethnocentric, … Read more
Guest blogger Lynn Smith shares his experience with WaterStep on the current trip to Uttarkashi, India, to install mini water treatment plants in response to the devastating flooding that hit the area in July (read more here). WaterStep was asked to respond to the July flooding by the Indian organization RLEK to work in conjunction … Read more
