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Thirst For Dignity
Recent post I wrote for Blood:Water. “On paper it looked like a fairly straight forward itinerary; 7 days in Kenya’s desert north visiting some of the more remote communities Blood:Water has partnered with over the last several years. In retrospect, it’s hard to really decide what the most exciting part of the trip was: driving [...]
Silent Outrage
The water is clean, but the container is not. Piped in by gravity flow from over 20 miles away, this water has traveled far to get here only to be recontaminated in the very final stage before drinking. Containers like these were championed by government and large aid agencies as being better than open containers [...]
World AIDS Day
Article by Dan Haseltine for Blood:Water Mission I was not really prepared. As I turned the corner, my eyes took it in, and I felt my lungs fill with air, and let it all go, as if I had just beheld a great waterfall, or a mountain vista. It was nothing of the sort. But [...]
Marsabit
Marsabit. It’s a bit like Mars, but without the long trek across the solar system. Though after nine spine-rattling hours along a dusty, boulder strewn road, I staggered out of the 4×4 Land Rover looking as if I’d just spent a month in space. The landscape was an incredible mix of red volcanic rock and [...]
Resources
In my never-ending quest for knowledge the web has proven both a fantastic resources and an incredible waste of time. In an effort to assist you in maximize the former I’m providing my shortlist of resources on my favorite subjects. Be sure to browse the posts in my tag cloud since many of them contain [...]
Helpless
Water flows out of the well and onto the dusty hands of 50 or so laughing school children who crowd in to get a drink during a break between classes. The school is a cinder-block shell along a sandy road deep in the bush of southern Mozambique and the very fact that it exists at [...]
Water Is Life
The human body is 70% water. A 3% loss of water can reduce a person’s ability work by 20%. For your average 60lb school-age child, that amounts to a standard nalgene-bottle full of water. Under exertion, the human body can sweat twice that in an hour. Now imagine sub-Saharan Africa, 90 to 110 degree heat [...]
Of Course…
Late last year when traveling through a village in central Kenya Jena and I came across a 4-year old orphan girl suffering from club foot syndrome. For those of you not familiar with club foot, it is a birth defect that affects the feet, typically causing the feet to turn inwards and sideways. It’s a [...]
