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Blood:Water Book Club: “When Helping Hurts,” Part 2
We hope you’ve been enjoying reading “When Helping Hurts” along with our staff! If you missed last week’s discussion post, click here. This week we’re looking at Part 2: General Principles for Helping without Hurting. Now that we…
Blood:Water Book Club: “When Helping Hurts,” Part 1
Welcome to the launch of the Blood:Water Book Club! Joey Maloney is leading our first discussion on “When Helping Hurts.” Please enjoy the discussion below and feel free to answer the questions in the comment box below. Poverty…
Miles for Wells
We are constantly in awe of our incredible fundraisers who give their time and creativity to help bring clean water and HIV/AIDS care to communities in Africa. Because our work is done through local partners in Africa, opportunities…
Photo Friday: HIV Testing in Isiolo
This week’s Photo Friday comes from the new Blood:Water partner Instagram competition we talked about in our blog post yesterday. Our partner in Isiolo, Kenya, Food for the Hungry (FH K), sent us this photo of a doctor…
Join Our Book Club!
With the recent release of co-founder Jena Lee Nardella’s first memoir, “One Thousand Wells,” we’ve been talking a lot about books. So that made us think – we should start a Blood:Water Book Club! Since the founding days…
Worlds Collide
Very few people can say that they get the chance to have their worlds collide beautifully. Past, present, and future. Old friends and new. Celebrating something bigger than themselves, walking away different than the people they were when…
Blood:Water Takes a Pilgrimage
The inaugural year of the Pilgrimage Festival was one for the books! With three stages and an A-list lineup that included catalog acts such as Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson, the buzz leading up to the festival made…
Photo Friday: From the Farm
On Tuesday, Little Big Town joined us for our annual Farm event. It was a beautiful night and an incredible performance. We are so grateful for the generous support they’ve shown Blood:Water over the years, and the lasting…
Hope Lutheran Church: The Walter Project
This summer, we were blessed by the many churches that participated in The Walter Project. There were many creative and hardworking children’s ministry programs that used our curriculum for their Vacation Bible School or Sunday school. Hope Lutheran…
Pilgrimage & Hootenanny
The Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival and Blood:Water! For all the narratives about working slowly and being a sailboat of an organization, sometimes things move quickly. Six months ago I became aware of a new music festival…