My Nonprofit Reviews

Steve, Executive Director of Water Is Basic, invited me to join him on a trip to Africa over 20 years ago and, in so doing, he opened up (literally) a whole new world for me. He created a real awareness of the joys, pains, needs, talents and lives of my fellow human beings on the other side of a planet we share. The same sun that shines on me, shines on them. My wife went to Sudan in 2005, specifically southern Sudan (which would later become South Sudan) and experienced first hand the people and the region that would serve, grow and benefit from the work that Water Is Basic would begin just a year later in 2006. For over 15 years Water Is Basic has been helping bring life, freedom, health and community to an area ravaged by the greatest atrocities that war brings. They have managed to do this, with tremendous success, by equipping, empowering and mobilizing the local community of women and men to work together to create sustainable systems for providing clean water to people in the villages throughout the region. Some of the unique things I appreciate and admire most about the way Steve and his team operate is the frequent communication of updates, the creative and numerous ways to help people get involved and the sharing of stories of how our giving is positively impacting real people, my brothers and sisters that share my sun only thousands of miles away. Thank you, Water Is Basic, for giving us the privilege, honor and power to make a difference in this world.