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Sue Cicerone

Newsletter – Fall 2019

Welcome back to the latest edition of what AVFCW is up to this beautiful fall season. This edition covers water safety plans, and highlights the story of a recent workshop participant from Haiti, Mr. Pierre Petit Frere. At the April Think Tank, Pierre learned about Water Safety Plans as a tool to improve the sustainability of WASH projects. Pierre asked AVFCW to mentor him in creating a WSP for his new project. AVFCW will assist Pierre in creating a WSP to document the goals and objectives of his project, the major deliverables, the timeline, the issues and risks and mitigation strategies,...
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Rose Branstrom

Newsletter – Summer 2019

Our latest newsletter is out! The summer edition covers our recent workshop help in April, as well as offers a big welcome to our latest AVFCW Board Member, Rose Branstrom. Through travel in developing nations Rose has witnessed the challenges of clean water management for communities and is excited to help contribute to solutions with the organization. With work experience in technical project management, toxicology, marketing, and customer training and communications Rose currently works for the Applied Research Center at the not-for-profit NSF International. For those of you that like to plan early, our next workshop will be held in Ontario, Canada...
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Water Workshop Classroom

Free Water Projects Think Tank (4/29)

As part of a Rotary District 6380 Grant, A Vision for Clean Water is hosting a “Think Tank” to discuss ways to increase long-term success for WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) projects. It will be held the day following the 3-day Latrine Workshop to allow the workshop attendees who have come from Kenya, Ecuador and Haiti plus others to participate. Please help us by passing the word to local WASH implementers. When: April 29th, from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm (lunch included) Cost: Free (please RSVP as soon as possible, as space is limited) Where: Columbiere Center in Clarkston, Michigan The...
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AVFCW Workshop Photo

Newsletter – Spring 2019

Although a fierce winter storm is currently hitting the Midwest, we've gone ahead and preemptively released the Spring 2019 edition of the AVFCW newsletter for your perusal. This issue highlights our upcoming workshop at the end of April, our World Water Day program held in March with the support of Laura Richardson of OHorizons, and the coinciding visit from the "Water Wagon". The Wagon was built in 2015 to be a filling station serving residents in the wake of the Flint water crisis. It is now being promoted for use at public events and in water emergencies. Meanwhile, we're looking forward to the...
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OHorizons in Puerto Rico

World Water Day 2019 Presentation (3/17)

Titled "Water Problems in Puerto Rico", Laura Richardson, CEO of OHorizons, will discuss her experiences bringing clean drinking water to those in need using OHorizons’ low cost wooden mold to create Biosand Filters. Demonstrations, examples of water filtration solutions, discussions and refreshments will also be included. This event is free to attend, and will take place at Christ Our Light church on March 17th, 2019, from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm. Download/view the flyer for this event here....
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Eileen & John in Nepal

Annual Letter 2018

Dear Friends of A Vision for Clean Water, A blend of education, collaboration, hard work and generosity of spirit and resources continue to make the vital, life-giving work of A Vision for Clean Water (AVFCW) possible. As our fifteenth anniversary year draws to a close, we are expanding our reach by developing new partnerships with global organizations that will help bring the essential resource of clean drinking water, improved sanitation and health conditions to serve even more people in regions throughout the developing world. As the organization grows, we remain true to our mission: to bring safe water and sanitation to those...
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A student holds up a glass of dirty water, before we put it through the filter.

Newsletter – Fall 2018

AVFCW newsletter time! This issue of the AVFCW newsletter celebrates our 15 year anniversary. A Vision For Clean Water has spent the last decade and a half teaching water and sanitation project best practices to hundreds of people from around the world, while also lending a hand on the ground in far off locales such as Central America and Lebanon. Started by Josh and Eileen Heasley in 2002, after their trip to Nepal, the road to AVFCW was a pretty direct one: When they returned home they did a lot of research and found that Biosand water filters work without electricity and are...
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The volunteers, board members, trainers, and graduating class of AVFCW's 2018 Water Workshop.

2018 Water Filter Workshop Photos

Better late than never! We've finally posted the photos from the last workshop, back in late April of this year. You can check them out here. Thanks again to our students, volunteers, board members, and CAWST instructors for making this year's workshop a resounding success. If you're interested in doing something similar, please check out the details of our upcoming workshop, taking place in April 2019....
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AVFCW Workshop Photo

Newsletter – Summer 2018

It's that time of year again, time for the AVFCW newsletter! This issue recaps our latest Biosand Water Filters and More workshop, held in April 2018. Attendees joined us in Clarkston, Michigan from all over the world – Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Chad, Cuba, Guatemala, Cambodia, Haiti, Nicaragua, Ecuador – for four days of classroom training and instruction on how to setup and manage their own sustainable clean water and sanitation projects around the world. Did the participants benefit from the course material?  Well according to the course evaluations, 100% of those taking the workshop felt that the workshop “completely” met their expectations....
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The AVFCW Team + Attendees

Latrine Workshop (4/26-28, 2019)

This 3 day workshop provides attendees interested in water and sanitation projects in developing countries with an overview of latrine program implementation. This is the latest workshop from the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technologies (CAWST) and enables participants to select approaches that are appropriate for their context as well as key resources to learn more about the different approaches. The workshop brings together people active in implementing water and sanitation projects throughout the developing world, so participants learn from the experiences of their other participants in addition to the CAWST teachers. This workshop will take place from April 26-28, 2019...
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