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Leader of the Year – Hermella Woldehana

Each year, Blood:Water honors one of our active partners with the Blood:Water Leader of the Year award. Today, we are showcasing Hermella Woldehana, the Executive Director of Drop of Water (DoW)! Hermella holds the highest standards for herself and those she works with, and Blood:Water is honored to be a part of her fearless journey.

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You Helped Fanose Take Charge Of Her Life

  Your gifts empower people who are living with HIV to manage their health, care for their families, and prosper in life – just like Fanose is doing today. Fanose joined an HIV care and support program at ACT, our partner in Ethiopia, in 2013. Her husband had recently passed away from an AIDS-related illness;…

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You’re Pouring Hope Into People Like Sarah

  It was a small act done with ‘great love’ I don’t like the word impossible. I’ve seen and experienced enough of life’s abrupt plot twists and miraculous moments to give myself the freedom to remove such an obsolete expression from my vocabulary. Yet, after walking around the Suki community in Ethiopia with our partner…

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You Changed the Direction of Her Life

  A mother’s greatest joy is to nurture and care for her family. When facing seemingly impossible circumstances, a mother will persevere! Abaynesh is the perfect example of this. Over a period of time, she pressed on through a series of difficulties. She lost both her husband and 2-year-old son during an epidemic in the…

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World Water Day: An Answered Prayer

  In the Tigray Region of Ethiopia, community members share similar stories of struggling to find clean water, often walking 7 hours round-trip and still falling ill because the source of the water, despite the long walk, is unclean. Abba Ashebir Hailemariam has lived in one of these communities for his 82 years of life,…

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Water For Life: Part II

  Read Part I The Denver, CO, team became a part of the Blood:Water story two years ago, when they fundraised for sustainable water access, sanitation, and improved hygiene for 6,709 people in the communities of Tauane and Copuito, Mozambique. This year, they are fundraising to support our partner, Drop of Water, in Me’kele, Ethiopia.…

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Water For Life: Part I

  The Denver, CO, team became a part of the Blood:Water story two years ago, when they fundraised for sustainable water access, sanitation, and improved hygiene for 6,709 people in the communities of Tauane and Copuito, Mozambique. This year, they are fundraising to support our partner, Drop of Water, in Me’kele, Ethiopia. Laurie Bolthouse reflects…

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Meet Our Partner: DOW

  In partnership with Drop of Water, Blood:Water has committed to supporting sustainable clean water supply and proper sanitation facilities development in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Not only will this partnership result in water points and sanitation facilities in this fairly remote region, it will also leverage and increase advocacy networks built by DOW…

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The Power of Community: Round 2

  In 2016, a team from Colorado partnered with Blood:Water for a 1-year pilot project in Balama, Mozambique, to empower the communities of Tauane and Copuito to provide sustainable water access, sanitation, and improved hygiene for 6,709 people. The results were incredible! One year later, Executive Director Stan Doerr sat in the living room of…

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