Funding for this project will go towards women's agricultural cooperatives in Nicaragua. Through a partnership with LA Fem (Fundación Entre Mujeres)  these water filters will go toward rural communities in region of Esteli Nicaragua and the Coastal region of Leon Nicaragua. 

LA FEM provides, land, seeds, tools, education, legal services, health resources and various tools to empower women in rural communities in entrepreneurship. They achieve this through granting women these resources to grow organic coffee, utilizing agroecological and other sustainable farming practices. Through partnership they enable the women market access with fair trade organization in the US and Europe to sell the coffee they grow at above-market rates. 

When a women or group of women are productive enough, they pass on these same resources on to keep to ensure the model continues to be self-sustaining. Through this arm of the program alone, LA FEM has empowered thousands of women create income and livelihoods for their families and communities. 

Even so, clean water is something that is still difficult to access for many communities. When it rains the streams, rivers and water resources often become contaminated often severely effecting children. Millions of children die evert year in communities like these through preventable illnesses like pneumonia and diarrhea. 

Clean Water for Women's Empowerment Co-Operatives in Nicaragfua

Clean Drinking Water for All

Howzit Waves for Water Team,

My name is Ben Yeager, from Sunset Beach, Oahu.

Currently I'm located in Perth, AUS. I serve as the rotational Chief Officer on "Motor Yacht Just B". You can find us on Instagram at @explorer_just_b  I work in 2:2 rotations, which allows me to travel extensively during my 2 month off periods. I am eager to discuss the possibility of partnering with Waves for Water to courier your water kits to remote areas during my travels this year.

The two rotation captains of Motor Yacht Just B are enthusiastic about supporting Waves for Water's mission. We have planned a number of explorations through Indonesia, culminating in West Papua around January 2025, before heading north to the Philippines. 

We carry excellent camera equipment and drones onboard, enabling us to feature Waves for Water and produce high-quality content.

I believe that our journey and resources provide a perfect opportunity to highlight and support W4W. I would love to initiate a conversation about how we can collaborate on this. Additionally, I am well-connected with Yacht Aid Global and plan to pitch this initiative to them for fundraising support.

Our yacht owners are very generous and committed to giving back, especially as we explore Indonesia this year. If we present this partnership well, I am confident they will be fully supportive.

Here is a brief outline of my immediate travel plans:

INDO WEST:

Dates: 11 June - 1 July 2024
Location: Visiting Sumatra, specifically the Krui region. I am currently networking with Putu Juliartha, who is assisting with the Pargo project to identify and connect with the right contacts in Sumatra.
SOUTH AFRICA:

Dates: 2 July - 30 July 2024
Location: Traveling to South Africa. I am in the process of networking with friends there to determine which areas would benefit most from Waves for Water kits.
INDO EAST & WEST PAPUA:

Dates: 19 August 2024 - January 2025
Details:
This segment of the journey will be through Indonesia and culminate in West Papua.
Zak Noyle and his father, close friends of the yacht’s owners, will join us for certain segments, providing an excellent opportunity for content capture by renowned photographers.
I am excited about the potential impact we can make together and look forward to discussing how we can turn this vision into reality. Thank you for considering this partnership opportunity.

Best Regards and Lots of Aloha,
Ben Yeager

INDO WEST, SOUTH AFRICA, & INDO EAST 2024 - WEST PAPUA, PALAU, PHILIPPINES, TAIWAN, JAPAN, BORNEO, CAMBODIA, THAILAND, MALDIVES… ETC.. TBD

A bike ride across the world to provide safe drinking water for all!

A bunch of mates, a lot of passion and love, similar ambition and one vision - to make the world a more beautiful place! We believe that with the incredible privilege to travel and explore this amazing world, comes a responsibility to help create positive change for all! 
A small effort to make a big impact.

If you can turn on a tap to brush your teeth or fill up a glass of water to drink, you are privileged. Clean drinking water is a basic human right, however not everyone has access to it. The world’s water crisis is huge. The United Nations report shows that around 2 billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water, that is 1 in 4 people! In South East Asia alone research suggests that 110 million people are facing water insecurity. 

Finding the Waves 4 Water volunteer courier program was exciting. The opportunity to contribute to solving the world’s water crisis in an easy yet impactful way. Clean water for everyone whilst on an incredible journey! Waves 4 Water have teamed up with Sawyer who have created an easy yet powerful portable filtration system. 

The project is simple and exciting. Cycling across the world to raise money, purchase filters, connect with local communities/schools in need, provide the education and tools to people so they can have access to clean drinking water, all while embracing and learning about their culture. 
We would like to raise enough money for at least 50 filters to make a considerable difference. However we will be incredibly happy to contribute and impact as many people as possible! The filters are easy to implement- only requiring a bucket and the filter to assist in filtration of dirty water. 

The power of your donations:
One filter costs $50 USD / $75 AUD

One filter =
- Provides 100 people with clean drinking water for up to 5 years or 1,000,000 gallons/3,785,410 litres per lifespan of filter
- Output of 360 gallons/1360 litres per day using gravity
- Removes harmful bacteria’s (Protozoa or cysts i.e Cholera, Botulism, Typhoid, Amoebic Dysentery, E. Coli or Giardia)

If you would like to help with The Water Cycle any donations big and small would be much appreciated. Thanks for your support and contributions to making this project come to life. Very excited to travel with a purpose and make a positive impact along the way. Let’s provide clean drinking water to as many people as we can!

*All donations amounts visible on the website are in USD

Thanks! A lot of love  💙

The Water Cycle

There have been 188,000 cholera cases in six southern African countries in the last year, resulting in 3,400 deaths, according to the U.N. Twenty-one thousand of these cases were in Zambia, which saw a severe upsurge in cholera in late 2023 that led to more than 700 deaths.

We have an innitial goal to provide 10 filters for zambian population from Lusaka district. That will provide pure water to 1.000 people for up to 5 years! 

Zambia Against Cholera

Sail and surf and bring fresh water to the French Polynesia Island Chains

Wanderlush South Pacific Adventure

My name is Ava Hartman, and I am a senior at the Legal Studies Academy at First Colonial High School. As a senior in the academy, I have been given the opportunity to explore a topic of interest. I have chosen to study the lack of access to clean drinking water in Madagascar. I am holding an art auction event on March 24, 2024 to raise funds towards water filters to be sent directly to families in Madagascar through Operation Smile. 


I have decided to research the lack of access to clean water in Madagascar because in September 2023, I was given the opportunity to travel to Madagascar as a student volunteer on an Operation Smile Surgical Program. As you may know, Operation Smile is an international medical charity that has provided hundreds of thousands of free surgeries for children and young adults in developing countries who are born with cleft lip, cleft palate, or other facial conditions. While I was in Madagascar, I taught healthcare modules such as dental hygiene, CPR, nutrition, burn care, burn prevention, etc. One Issue that I noticed needed to be addressed was the lack of access to clean water for Operation Smile patients living in rural Madagascar. While entertaining children before their surgeries, I was shocked to find that many of these children were years older than their mental and physical maturity, a condition that is called stunting. I researched the reasoning for the stunting of children under the age of five and found that one of the leading causes of this disorder is the drinking of dirty water. I began to ask local volunteers what the drinking water sources looked like in rural Madagascar, and I found that many of these children had been drinking from garbage-filled ponds or rusted wells. The drinking of this dirty water not only causes physical and mental stunting of children, but also various infections and diseases. After cleft children are operated on through Operation Smile, the drinking of dirty water can cause an infection at the sutures post-operatively. 

After coming home from Madagascar, the clean water issue stuck with me. Through the class Legal Research and Senior Project at my school, I have performed research on the main chemicals contributing to the dirty water and how they affect the stunting of under-fives and other diseases. The answers I have found are astonishing. After completing research on this topic, I am now working on an initiative to find the most effective water filtration resources and raise money towards providing the cleft community of Madagascar with sustainable water filters. The water filters that I raise money for will be sent directly to families in Madagascar through Operation Smile. I have decided that the most effective way for me to raise funds for water filters and teach the importance of clean drinking water is through an art auction event on March 24, 2024. 



Ava Hartman's Senior Project- The Lack of Access to Clean Drinking Water in Madagascar

I have recently traveled to Bacolod in the Philippines and witnessed first hand the local struggle for clean drinking water I would like to supply some local communities with your filters and help them set them up

Bacolod water relief 

Clean and safe water for the school kids of Peipei on Palua Siberut.

Siberut school

Inspired by a trip that Jack Rose and I took together to help remote Himalayan villages in India some years ago, I would like to bring the same freedom of clean water to the villages off the coastal province of Manabi in Ecuador. Here every single person has to spend precious money to buy giant plastic containers of water from suppliers, even the people who have running water in their faucets in their homes. Having seen firsthand how waves for water can change lives, I would like to bring as many filters as needed on my upcoming trips to Ecuador (with faucet attachments first and then also with bucket attachments later) to the villages of Ayampe, Las Tunas and Olon. I have been going to the Manabi province every year now for the last three years and I have a network of local people who can help me distribute these in the most optimal way. my goal is to build a model that shows the local people that it is possible for every person to stop their dependence on bottled water.

Manabi clean water for all - Ecuador

Water filters for local community to support efforts in climate change adaptation and resilience.

Nicaragua climate change resilience 

Category 5 hurricane Otis devastated my hometown of Acapulco, Mexico.

Helping the community one drop of at the time.

Couriers

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