Ensuring Sustainability: Checking in on Water Projects in Panama

Ensuring Sustainability: Checking in on Water Projects in Panama

Our goal is that completed projects continue providing benefits over time without outside assistance. In February, WEFTA volunteers Fr. Roberto Cumberland, Greg Branch, and Tim Wellman traveled to Panama to check in on ongoing, proposed, and completed projects. The...
Improving Lives in Copatamaya

Improving Lives in Copatamaya

Installation of new wells and hand pumps for Indigenous families in the Andean community of Copatamaya is now complete. Through collaborative efforts with our Bolivian in-country partners, Suma Jayma, and financial support from The Spirit of Christ Church based in...
Working to Improve WASH in Healthcare Facilities in Cameroon

Working to Improve WASH in Healthcare Facilities in Cameroon

WEFTA is dedicated to promoting water, sanitation, and hygiene services (WASH) in healthcare facilities (HCFs) in the countries we serve. Our projects in 2024 include vital WASH improvements to two HCFs in Cameroon. Collectively, these improvements will impact over...
Spotlight on Hanna Brosky:  WASH Graduate Student and WEFTA Volunteer

Spotlight on Hanna Brosky:  WASH Graduate Student and WEFTA Volunteer

When the Bajo Algodón community water board proposed clearing a road through the rain forest to bring in materials for a WEFTA water and sanitation project, Hanna Brosky witnessed the Panamanian community mobilize in short order. The University of North Carolina (UNC)...
Circuit Rider making great strides towards WASH improvements in Kenya

Circuit Rider making great strides towards WASH improvements in Kenya

WEFTA’s Circuit Rider, David Kurgat, is making great strides towards WASH improvements for health posts and schools in Kenya. WEFTA is working closely with our in-country circuit rider, David Kurgat, on the assessment, repair, and renovation of WASH improvements at...