Day Middle School Temecula & Skyetime
Students from the Day Middle School in Temecula, CA decided to help children in Africa gain access to clean water after learning about the water crisis from Skye McNeil, founder of the website Skyetime.com. She explained that children in Africa spend hours every day walking 6 to 7 miles to fetch water for their families […]
World Water Day 2013 newsletter
This message was originally posted as a Drop in the Bucket newsletter, to receive updates like this please sign up for our mailing list. Hello Everyone, As you may have heard, today, March 22nd is World Water Day! When Drop in the Bucket formed back in 2006, 1.1 billion people were without access to clean […]
World Water Day 2013
Almost 1 billion people on the planet lack access to safe drinking water. Dirty water and poor sanitation kill more children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined. Every 20 seconds a child dies from a lack of clean water or sanitation. More people have access to a cell phone than a toilet. Do we just […]
Obey Awareness Program
Shepard Fairey is a strong believer that clean water is a human right and this year Drop in the Bucket was honored by being one of only two causes chosen for the 2013 season.
Beads that transform lives
These paper beads are handmade by women in the IDP (internally displaced Persons) in Uganda. While most people are familiar with the term refugee, IDP is less know. The difference is a refugee is someone that was forced to flee their home country to go and live in a different country. An IDP is someone […]
Sister Sidonia Aman Tong
Camboni Primary and Secondary School in Aweil Town was the location of one of the wells we recently repaired. The school was constructed by the Catholic Church, in the 1970s, but they are no longer funding it and the government has taken over. While we were there observing the work, I met the principal, Antonia […]
Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness
Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness are big words around this region these days. Disaster preparedness refers to unpredictable events like drought and floods. I experienced it during the dry season last winter when the schools in Northern Bahr el Ghazal closed down so families could migrate to swamps in search of water. But this time I saw the opposite side of the disaster. Annually, 100,000 […]
International Day of the Girl
Today is the first-ever International Day of the Girl. Even here in Uganda we are hearing that the Empire State Building in New York City is being lit up pink in tribute. It’s so encouraging that the global community is taking on this important issue! Today UNICEF South Sudan issued a call to action against child marriage, one of the major […]
Ngor Garang Tong
Ngor Garang Tong is a 5th grader at Salva Kiir Primary School, in Aweil Town, which is in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan. His school is one of several in the area where we have recently worked on projects. Ngor has a small afterschool business of shining shoes and said he uses his money […]
Ayum Mary Diny
Ayum Mary Diny loves school. Unfortunately due to decades of war she spent most of her childhood unable to go to school, like so many of her friends in South Sudan. Npw that the fighting has stopped Ayum is now 19 years old and only in the second grade.