Description: Healing communities with clean water
Headed by Rob Anthony, an engineer, entrepreneur, and pastor, the organization installed 369 water projects around the world since its founding in 2002.
PublisherWater Environment Federation
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Description: Healing communities with clean water
The group’s business model is built around local business, local buy-in, and healthy local families. Caitlin McCormick, the group’s development officer and grants manager, explains that each filtration system becomes the hub of a locally owned small business that sells clean water at highly competitive prices. Making sure there is money in the equation helps drive down the price of...
PublisherWater Environment Federation
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Description: Healing communities with clean water
Fundraising provides the money required to buy and install the systems and allows Healing Waters to employ local staffers in the US, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Mexico. Each country team is made up of locals who have been trained in building and managing the systems, teaching community members to operate the water business, and conducting Healing Waters’ evaluations in the...
PublisherWater Environment Federation
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Description: Healing communities with clean water
Additional projects were installed in 12 other nations where Healing Waters teamed up with strategic partners who have aid programs on the ground and want to add clean water to their efforts. But McCormick points out that the shining examples of what the Healing Waters systems can do are the projects that are supported by in-country staffers.
PublisherWater Environment Federation
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Description: Healing communities with clean water
Access to affordable, clean water is a critical first step to the Healing Waters plan. But the group found that also teaching local women and children about health and hygiene helps improve the health of families in each community and empower the women themselves. More than 4,300 people participated in Healing Waters health and hygiene training programs last year. But, more important, notes...
PublisherWater Environment Federation
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Description: Healing communities with clean water
The drive behind Healing Waters’ Her Initiative emphasizes the dignity and empowerment that comes with being able to keep families healthy. The organization developed marketing programs linking female donors in the US with Her Initiative participants overseas, including turnkey plans for workout-themed parties, pampering nights, and gourmet get-togethers that raise funds for the project.
PublisherWater Environment Federation
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Description: Healing communities with clean water
Jim Lauria is vice president of sales and marketing for Mazzei Injector, a fluid design company that manufactures mixing and contacting systems. He is a leader in the water treatment field with a proven track record of revenue growth, profit improvement, and new business development.
PublisherWater Environment Federation
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Healing communities with clean water