Maternal Health! - WASH is sponsoring a mini-series workshop focused on maternal and infant health. In Honduras, many of the mothers, or soon-to-be mothers, lack education in the field of maternal health including: basic reproductive anatomy, pregnancy, obstetric risks and dangers, labor, post-partum care and breastfeeding. The aim of these workshops is to teach the participants about these topics so that they feel confident when the time comes for them to have a child, and be proactive in their birth experience. To donate, click here .
Flood Victims - In late October, heavy rains caused severe flooding in the municipality of Sonaguera. Many homes were destroyed and families were left homeless. Over 125 households (nearly 1,000 people) were affected by the flooding, and many lost everything, including their livelihoods, as fields were flooded and crops destroyed. The Health Center has identified the families most in need of help, and in order to help them get back on their feet W.A.S.H. will be providing some basic necessities - clothing, mattresses, food - to help their lives get back to normal.Emergency Hospital Update- WASH is supporting the development of a sustainable regional emergency hospital to serve the Yojoa area of central Honduras. To learn about the recent advancement of this project click here . To learn about the history of this project click here. To donate, click here .
School Supplies and More - WASH is working in Colomoncagua to help provide the school and the students with basic school supplies as well as books, puzzles, and games to foster creative thinking, provide interactive learning, and improved education. To donate to this project click here . To learn more about this project click here.
Violence Against Women - WASH is working to create a violence prevention curriculum that will educate adolescents in regards to healthy and unhealthy relationships, signs of abuse, appropriate communication and increased self esteem. To learn more about this project click here.
Art and Culture - WASH is working to help promote art and culture in the small mountain town of Marcala, Honduras. To learn more about this project click here.
Year in Review - WASH has been busy over the past year with projects ranging from water systems to Midwife training. To see a slideshow of WASH's various projects click here.
Lowering Infant Mortality - W.A.S.H. is helping to improve the nutritional status of pregnant women in order to lower maternal and infant mortality rates in the community of Albergue, Honduras. To learn more about this project click here. To donate, click here .
Potable Water System - Two communities located in Central Honduras, Brisas del Campo and Piedra Amarilla, have no potable water system. A third comunity, Santiago Abajo lacks a completed system. Vice President of Project Development, Oscar Lai, is trying to change that. To learn more about Brisas del Campo click here. To learn more about Piedra Amarilla click here . To learn more about Santiago Abajo click here. To donate, click here .
Mobile AIDS Task Force - Many teenagers in Central America do not know about HIV/AIDS and as a result, Central America has been called “The New Africa”. W.A.S.H. hopes to change that through the Mobile AIDS Task Force Initiative. Meagan Davies, President of HIV/AIDS, and Krista Czerwinski, President of Childhood Development, have developed a fun and exciting program for teaching young people about HIV/AIDS. Through this initiative they will be teaching their program to high school teachers, AIDS Workers, Peace Corps Volunteers, and other NGO’s across Central America. To donate, click here .
Donator - W.A.S.H. wants to thank Justin Jablonowski for his donation, which is the largest single person donation W.A.S.H. has ever received. Upon receiving the donation, W.A.S.H.’s CEO thought it was a mistake and called Justin to make sure he hadn’t mistakenly added one or two 0’s to the amount. Thank you again Justin Jablonowski for your generous heart.
Rain Capture - The school children of Santa Rosita, Honduras, went to school everyday, with out access to water, because they had a strong desire to learn. Being in Central America, the days can be hot, and with out water, one can imagine the difficulty in concentrating on studies. W.A.S.H. stepped in, and working with the community built a rain capture system for the school. To see pictures of this amazing project, click here . To help build other rain capture systems for schools without water, click here .
Africa Scholarship Foundation - Thanks to the efforts of President of Fund Raising, Justin Jablonowski has begun a Scholarship Fund to provide children in rural Africa a chance at a better education. To donate to this project click here .
Coffee Farmers - The small coffee farmers of San Miguelito, Honduras are struggling to earn adequate income to support their businesses and families. They lack the necessary equipment to process the beans and therefore are forced to sell the beans at low prices to intermediaries. As a result, the farmers see just a small percentage of the profits. To learn more about what W.A.S.H. is doing to help, click here .
JH Cohn LLP - W.A.S.H. wants to thank the employees of JH Cohn for their donation of over $1,300.00. The employees raised this money using a fundraiser called “Coin Challenge”. To see pictures of JH Cohn's Coin Challenge and to learn how you can start one in your office, click here . Or, if your office or church already has a fundraiser, maybe you can convince your office/church to donate the money to W.A.S.H.
Maternal Health - W.A.S.H.’s health sector is raising money in order to facilitate a community level health initiative to combat maternal and infant mortality in Intibucá, one of Honduras’s poorest, most rural departments. To learn more about this project click here . To donate to this project please include a note “This donation is for Maternal Health Initiative”.
Child Survival -W.A.S.H.'s President of Health Projects, Dr. Sara Schaefer, has been working in San Miguelito, Honduras, to improve child survival and child well-being. In coordination with Peace Corps and Honduras Ministry of Health, she has developed a project to strengthen child growth monitoring that will empower communities to employ early detection and prevention of child growth problems, and thus as a result, improve child survival rates. The total cost of this project is only $215. To read more about this project click here. Or, to donate to this project click here and include this note “This donation is for Child Survival in San Miguelito”.
High School Improvement - W.A.S.H. is working with a local high school in Marcala, Honduras to make improvements to the school and to provide a better learning environment for the students. To learn more about this project click here .
Midwife Training - W.A.S.H. is working through a local women’s clinic in Marcala, Honduras to provide a one-year training course for midwives. The one year course will train 20 midwives in Emergency Obstetrics. To learn what you can do and why this project is important, click here .
USC - W.A.S.H. will be working with the University of Southern California’s Engineer’s Without Borders chapter. The project includes the use of a waterfall to create a water turbine to pump water up to a storage tank for 4 villages.
Rotary - At the beginning of next year, W.A.S.H. will be working with Rotary Club International on water projects in 10 communities.
IRWA - W.A.S.H. is working with International Rural Water Association (IRWA) to deliver clean disinfected water to schools and communities. Using technology developed by IRWA, 14 schools and communities are receiving disinfected water to help reduce the number of deaths from waterborne diseases. The treatment system can be installed in a school or community for $200. To read more about this project and how you can help click here .
Quotes:
“What the employees at JH Cohn did is amazing! I can’t thank them enough.” - Community Member Jose Molino.
“You will not find a more cost effective non-profit than W.A.S.H.” - Holly A. Christian, Certified Public Accountant
"W.A.S.H. is different from all other NGO´s. We don't pay salaries, office expenses, or travel expenses. Therefore, 100% of your money donated goes to buying cement, tubes, etc., to build water systems for communities in need." - Director Tyler Baker
Facts: More than one billion people (one-sixth of the world's population) lack safe drinking water and almost two billion are without adequate sanitation. Every day, an estimated 10,000 people in developing countries die from water-related diseases. That’s 6.9 people every minute.
2 million children under 5 in Asia, Africa and South America die each year from diarrhea. This is caused mainly by dirty water or food touched by dirty hands. Diseases caused by dirty water result in the deaths of more than 300 children every hour.
