One of the many ways Water4 supports our partners in their journey toward self-sufficiency is by offering Biblical Financial Stewardship training to help them discover how to better manage their personal and enterprise finances in God honoring ways. Last month, Water4 Business & Financial Stewardship Managers, John and Mary Beth Flippen traveled to Iquitos, Peru …
2018 was an exciting year as churches from all over came together to fight the water crisis alongside Water4 partners in 15 different countries. Some churches joined the fight for the first time, while others have been with us since the beginning. No matter when they joined the fight, every congregation who partnered with Water4 …
When I joined the team in 2015 Water4’s strategy as we know it today was just starting to materialize. Since then, I’ve seen over 700,000 people gain access to safe water through enterprise-based solutions through nearly 2,500 water projects. Extraordinary is an understatement.
Last week, USAID administrator, Mark Green, announced a major cultural and operational transformation to expand USAID’s engagement with the private sector to achieve outcomes of shared interest and shared value. USAID’s new Private-Sector Engagement Policy announcement was an agency-wide call to action, and a mandate to work hand-in-hand with the private sector to design and …
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This past summer, Water4 CEO, Matt Hangen was invited to present at The Mansfield Water Summit, an invitation-only leadership event for 90 international executives and water sector thought leaders. The 2018 summit focused on issues related to the way growing water scarcity in a changing global landscape is shaping current and future economic, geopolitical, social, …
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Believe it or not, we actually use quite a bit of restraint in deciding which pictures (out of the hundreds we get from the field each month) to share. Check out this one we received earlier this year from a village we’re working with deep in the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo: She’s …
Our partners in Sierra Leone, Iron Man Drilling Enterprise, recently started working in the Rofutha community in the western Portloko District of Sierra Leone, a community of about 700 people. The following story from Water4 Quality Control Champion, Solomon Sesay shows just how transformative of a role our partners have in seeking the justices of …
People love their tech. I get it, I’m a product of the 1980s and saw my dad fire up an IBM XT, got a Nintendo NES for Christmas, a beeper in high-school and had a Walkman with those fuzzy earpieces that put more sound out for your neighbors than you. That being said, I never …
Written by: Mary Beth Flippen, Financial Stewardship Manager Did you know the Bible has more to say about handling your finances and possessions than any other topic? Maybe God knew, all too well, how our hearts are tied to our money! Our Water4 partners know that to run a successful well drilling business, good financial …
Did you know that more than $1.2 billion worth of water infrastructure investment has been wasted over the last 20 years on water wells that sit broken today?