News & Happenings
Clean Water Restores Health, Dignity, and Hope for Shiseso
Restoring Health, Dignity, and Hope in Kenya For years, communities surrounding Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Shiseso Parish faced a daily struggle for water. Rainwater systems ran dry for months in the Kakamega County community located in western Kenya. Families relied...
Circuit Riding Pilot Initiative Strengthens WASH in Healthcare Facilities in Kenya
WEFTA is pleased to share the launch and baseline findings of the Circuit Riding Pilot Initiative to strengthen water, sanitation, and hygiene services in healthcare facilities and surrounding communities in Matungu Sub-County, Kakamega County, Kenya. The program is...
WEFTA’s 2025 Annual Report Highlights Impressive WASH Gains
We are honored to play a role in improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. In 2025, WEFTA WASH projects directly reached more than 281,000 people. In addition, over 3.3 million people living in the catchment areas of supported healthcare facilities...
Returning to San Miguelito: Advancing a 25-Year Water Partnership
From February 4–9, 2026, Water Engineers for the Americas (WEFTA) returned to San Miguelito, El Salvador, near El Imposible National Park, to assess and strengthen the community’s gravity-fed water systems serving approximately 160 connections. The visit was both...
WASH in Healthcare Facilities Project Completed at Lituhi Parish
WEFTA is pleased to share the successful completion of Phase I of the WASH in Healthcare Facilities initiative at Lituhi Parish Centre in Nyasa District, Ruvuma Region, Tanzania. The work was implemented by Sanitation and Water Action (SAWA) in collaboration with the...
Trees for Healthy Living: A Community-Led Effort Restoring Landscapes and Livelihoods in Mumias, Kenya
Mumias, Kakamega County, Kenya WEFTA is pleased to share the successful completion of the Trees for Healthy Living Project, a collaborative initiative designed to strengthen climate resilience, food security, and environmental stewardship across the ACK Diocese of...
Spotlight on Volunteer Mary Ostrowski: “A Keyboard Volunteer”
After a 20-year career with the American Chemistry Council (ACC), Mary Ostrowski is today a WEFTA volunteer, not by working on water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) projects on the ground in the Americas or Africa, but by writing about those projects. Now retired and...
Lifting up Labor and Delivery in Ethiopia
Thanks to the combined efforts of WEFTA, the Village Health Partnership (VHP), and in-country associates, healthcare facilities in Ethiopia are improving patient services, including maternal and neonatal care. WEFTA engineer-volunteers Marty Howell and Nathan...
Panama 2025: Continued Progress and Growing Need in Rural Water Systems
WEFTA’s 2025 work in Panama marked steady progress on rural water systems across the Comarca Ngäbe-Buglé and Bocas del Toro, despite months of road closures, heavy rains, and difficult transport conditions. During a February circuit-riding trip to 13 communities,...