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 »