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Phaiyce is Persevering for Education

June 24, 2025

Phaiyce has persevered to reach secondary school. At 14, she’s preparing to take exams this year. Yet millions of students won’t reach this point in their education as they drop out due to poor school water, sanitation, and hygiene.

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Emilienne a Champion for Hygiene

June 24, 2025

Emilienne Ahobantegeye began noticing a pattern with her children. “I used to see multiple cases of disease and frequently visited the local health center to treat my children. I attribute this to a lack of hygiene,” she says. That realization motivated Emilienne to make a change.

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The Power of Sanitation in a Girl’s Education

November 15, 2024

Meet Lennie, a passionate young woman whose journey with Water For People began in 2015, when she was only 11 years old. That was the year Water For People built bathrooms, handwashing facilities, and menstrual hygiene management units to support students’ sanitation and hygiene needs at Lennie’s school, Chilomoni Primary.

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Education Starts with Bathrooms

June 13, 2024

“I’ve been to schools where the situation is bad.” Prossy is a seventh-grade student in Uganda. She’s seen what it’s like when schools don’t have water or usable bathrooms.  Prossy lives…

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Inés, a Community Force

March 27, 2024

Growing up in rural Bolivia, Inés experienced the tension between her dreams for the future and the stark reality around her. “We had to limit our water use since it needed to last the whole month – we reused as much as possible. And because we didn’t have toilets, we would walk to look for remote places in the mountains and hills.”

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Meet Teresa

March 20, 2023

Driven by wanting a different future for her daughters, Teresa organized the effort to get clean water to all the families in her community in Guatemala.

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Letting Girls Lead: Making Community Awareness Videos in Rural India

October 6, 2022

Instead of a daily trek to find water, girls are finding their voice in one of India’s tribal communities in Chikhaldara.

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Transforming Communities

May 18, 2022

“We had two springs we used for water, but they have dried up. The mayor brought water in a cistern once a week, but it was not enough. To wash clothes, we went to the river, but it was far away.”

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The Wait is Finally Over

January 28, 2021

“Before, the wait for water used to begin in the dark at 4 a.m.”

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A Drop of Hope

December 16, 2019

Growing up, Santana remembers watching her neighbors carry water every day. She never gave up hope that this would change.

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