• Project Kickoff

    Identify project recipients and create project plan with local partners
    Identify project recipients and create project plan with local partners

  • Baseline Surveys

    Research and document community needs and capabilities to ensure lasting impact
    Research and document community needs and capabilities to ensure lasting impact

  • Equipment

    Specify, purchase, and move equipment and parts to project location
    Specify, purchase, and move equipment and parts to project location

  • Community Mobilization

    Entire communities get involved for everything from use fees to maintenance plans
    Entire communities get involved for everything from use fees to maintenance plans

  • Sanitation & Hygiene Education

    Often latrines are constructed and communities need safe hygiene education
    Often latrines are constructed and communities need safe hygiene education

  • Construction

    Can include road building, labor organizing, drilling, cement, and pump work
    Can include road building, labor organizing, drilling, cement, and pump work

  • Committee Training

    Knowledge transfer to villagers for long-term maintenance and servicing tasks
    Knowledge transfer to villagers for long-term maintenance and servicing tasks

  • Post Evaluation

    Review baseline surveys and project schedules to compare against goals and targets
    Review baseline surveys and project schedules to compare against goals and targets

  • Monitoring

    Once project complete, regularly visit sites to address issues and challenges
    Once project complete, regularly visit sites to address issues and challenges

About my.Water.org

ABOUT my.Water.org

Welcome and thank you exploring our site. my.Water.org is designed to bring greater transparency and connectedness between donors and beneficiaries through the use of social media and networks. Water.org has a 20-year history of delivering sustainable end-to-end water and sanitation solutions to the developing world and we're hopeful this site will give visitors a near-time view into that work.

This site allows visitors to follow our field work, and ultimately their donation, as work unfolds in our projects. Information for this site is collected from a variety of sources. Primary sources include project schedules, progress reports, and site visits by partner organizations and Water.org staff. Friend and fundraising information, where shared, is collected by the site. Secondary sources are used for generalized news reports from regions represented on the site.

SITE CONTENT

Every effort is made to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of the content, stories, pictures, and videos that are shared on this site. At times complete information is unavailable from program areas and representative information is used to provide visitors a consistent user experience. Substantial differences can be expected in the type, frequency, and timeliness of information for any particular region or village. Much of these variances are a result of internet infrastructure in the developing world and Water.org aims to balance the relative value of real-time data with the real-world costs of collecting and reporting this information as it relates to its overall mission to optimize program efficiency and donor stewardship.

At the time of our beta launch, pictures from all 26 Ethiopian villages were unavailable and substitute photography from the program area is used. As imagery becomes available, those pictures will be replaced. The beta program region has provided interesting learnings to delivering real-time web applications; and by many measures became an optimal test for overcoming connectivity, proximity, cultural and languages differences with the developed world.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

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