Tag Archive for: Water Filters

What is Your “YES” Today?
Clean Water, Just One Africa"Sometimes something touches your heart so deeply that “doing nothing” isn’t an option anymore. You become determined to make a change rather than coming up with excuses of why you can’t. Not because the fear stops lurking, but because…

Distribution Day Adventures
Clean Water, KenyaWe recently visited a new community in Southern Kenya. Our morning started at dawn and after two grueling hours of bouncing along dusty dirt roads, we arrived with 150 Uzima water filters and 300 buckets ready to teach and train on hygiene,…


So much more than giving Clean Water
Clean Water, Experience TripsI had the most wonderful opportunity to work with the directors of Just One Africa, Clay and Amy Churchill on their most recent trip to Kenya. What they do is so much more than giving clean water.
Working with them, I learned about how much…

Empowering Local Leaders with Access to Clean Water
Clean Water, PartnersPacking up 200 five-gallon buckets, 100 water filters, and our US and Kenyan teams, we departed for the small, rural village of Asembo, located in Siaya County. An excited crowd, 150 strong, anxiously awaited our arrival. We have served…

Water Filters – Seeing in full color
Clean Water, Experience TripsOn Tuesday, June 7th, I started my fieldwork. The American NGO, Just One Africa has distributed hundreds of water filters in Kimana, where I am living, and in Loitokitok, a town 20 minutes down the road. Just One employs two Kenyans named…

Lifting communities out of a cycle of sickness and poverty
Clean WaterToday was full of new opportunities. The day started with our vehicles all packed up with buckets and filters heading to Siaya County for multiple water filter distributions. But first, we had a meeting with the governor to discuss the UZima…

You chose to say YES!
Just One Africa, ProgramsIt is because YOU chose to say “YES” to being Just One that Just One Africa is able to partner with local leaders in Kenya creating long term sustainable change for vulnerable children! We extend a heartfelt thank you for your donations,…

Our humble beginings
Clean Water, Just One Africa, Programs, Vulnerable Children“Human suffering ANYWHERE concerns men and women EVERYWHERE.” Elie Wiesel
This little baby is the one that started it all. In 2012 we were serving in this Kenyan community on the shores of Lake Victoria. We had partnered with the locals…

Children can now go to school
Clean WaterThis is a very rural Maasai community in Southern Kenya. Our local leaders John and Dorcus conducted a sanitation training as well as a water filter distribution. On our follow up trip in January I visited this community and walked to their…