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WaterStep welcomed over 15 people to our headquarters in Louisville to attend a Hand Pump Repair Training and a Water Treatment & Health/Hygiene Training yesterday. Students from University of Indiana along with mentors, who are all planning on going out of the country this coming weekend, attended this training. They learned what to expect when they are traveling out of the country, including different kinds of cultural standings such as the differences between money, power and leadership even things as small as hand gestures and what to stay away from. People had a hands on experience later in the afternoon, when they got to help assemble hand pumps. This training also had some special guests, Tony Hamisi from the DR Congo, John Rashid also from the DR Congo, Jordan Maiden working in Malawai and Andrew Gardour from Liberia, who was mentioned previously.
Andrew has been a partner with WaterStep for a year now and has recently completed his first project in Liberia. Andrew heard about WaterStep last year he then came to his first training, and then committed to a project in Liberia. WaterStep then decided to make Andrew a partner. When asked why he feels that WaterStep is such an important organization he responded with how “they provide water for the communities, but they also provide life.” After the completion of the project and throughout this past year Andrew has truly seen that this Water project is “really helping people to live.”