People with Albinism People with albinism have difficult lives in much of East and Central Africa. In parts of Tanzania, too often they are killed, with their body parts used ritually as talismen. In areas of Congo-DRC, they are simply sacrificed. At best, they are simply stigmatized, denied education and employment, with little in the way of life chances. Parents also suffer for their children, and many cast them out to fend for themselves. July 24, 2018By Web Admin Tanzania , Albinism 0 Comment Read More »
"I NOW CONDUCT MY LIFE LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!" Mwenge is a 58-year-old widow living in the Mugunga Refugee Camp, south of the city of Goma in DRC-Congo. There are more 90,000 refugees living there, escaping from the ongoing war, with incomes averaging below 50 cents a day. This extreme poverty coupled with lack of any opportunity at all forces many women, even married ones, to resort to prostitution to feed their families, which, in turn, increases the number of people living with HIV. April 17, 2016By Web Admin Democratic Republic of Congo 0 Comment Read More »
Report from the Kahororo, Congo project - Two years in background In May 2013, Friendly Water for the World received a grant of $3,200 from the Washington State Environmental Health Association. We approached Friendly Water’s DRC-Congo Representative Eliphaz Bashilwango to choose a village or community for a clean water intervention. We asked him specifically to make sure that his choice had a high probability of success, as it was to be our first project in the Congo. January 21, 2016By Web Admin Democratic Republic of Congo 0 Comment Read More »
Kasaana People Living With HIV In western Uganda, Friendly Water for the World has been working with an entire community pf people living with HIV. Last year, there were 59 families impacted by HIV. People were very sick, and many had given up their occupations. Kids were taken out of school to walk up to 5.5 Km each day, twice day, to fetch dirty water for their sick parents. December 2, 2015By Web Admin Uganda 0 Comment Read More »
THIS is What Success Looks Like – NOTHING HAPPENS Sometimes those of us here in North America watching the progress of Friendly Water for the World projects can only sense what it must feel like among the people in the field doing our collective work. And of course preventing disease in the communities in which we work is different than it is here. Here, the work of disease prevention is often close to invisible – when it is successful, nothing happens! Which is one of the reasons why public health often has such difficulty justifying its work, and justifying the funding that needs to go into it on a regular basis November 8, 2015By Web Admin Rwanda 0 Comment Read More »
A report on our We Stopped Cholera kickoff Celebration We all had a fabulous weekend in Olympia, celebrating the kickoff of the We Stopped Cholera Victory Campaign, marking the elmination of cholera in all 26 orphanages in the city of Goma, Congo-DRC. November 3, 2015By Web Admin We Stopped Cholera We Stopped Cholera 0 Comment Read More »
We Stopped Cholera Press Release Olympia, Washington-Based Clean Water Group Eliminates Cholera in 26 Orphanages in the Congo. When Michael’s brother in the Leve Moi orphanage died after writhing in pain for three days, Michael was too sick to cry. And now it was happening to his best friend. Ten others had died in the previous month. All the kids were in shock, and the orphanage staff as well. All the children had died in the orphanage itself; there was no money for a hospital, little for medication, and they couldn’t even afford coffins. Every child was traumatized. All anyone could think of was whether he or she would be next. November 3, 2015By Web Admin Democratic Republic of Congo 0 Comment Read More »