News & Happenings
Spotlight on Emily Parker: WEFTA Field Engineer and Remote Designer
Emily Parker will never forget canoeing up a river and hiking through the jungle to access community water projects in isolated areas of southern Mexico. The WEFTA volunteer relishes the opportunity to visit these places, which are rarely seen by outsiders. So far,...
Bishop Ndimbo Shares Gratitude on Behalf of the Mbinga Diocese Communities
In collaboration with SAWA, our Tanzanian partners, WEFTA has worked with the Benedictine Sisters and the Catholic Diocese to complete water, sanitation & hygiene improvement (WASH) projects for healthcare facilities since 2020. The completed projects include the...
Spotlight on Lam Ho: “WEFTA Impacts Lives”
Lam Ho marvels at the powerful impact that WEFTA water and sanitation infrastructure projects have on rural and indigenous communities. It is what motivates the engineer to continue his volunteer activities. He cites, for example, the dramatic improvement in the...
Spotlight on Alex Litofsky: Volunteer Keen on Building Local Capacity
WEFTA volunteer Alex Litofsky has returned to the Panamanian community she first fell in love with several years ago. She is using her experience and contacts to help improve access to water through a project that will benefit a local school and surrounding homes....
Safe Clinic Toolkit
Since 2016, WEFTA has partnered with Village Health Partnership (VHP) to improve water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) resources for maternal healthcare facilities in the West Omo Zone of Ethiopia. As we continue to provide water engineering and technical expertise...
WEFTA’s WASH Circuit Rider Program Helps Ensure Long-term Sustainability
Since 2002, WEFTA volunteers have worked side-by-side with the rural and indigenous communities they serve to install critical WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) infrastructure. But successful installation and initial effective operation does not necessarily...
Progress of WASH in Healthcare Facilities
WEFTA is proud to be part of the WASH in Catholic Healthcare Initiative, as we continue working with our partners towards improving WASH resources in healthcare facilities in the countries we serve. Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services in healthcare...
Water is Life
“No one needs lofty theological concepts to justify proper WASH. Without it, health care cannot be healthy. No treatment, no surgery, no delivery can be safely performed without meeting basic WASH conditions.” - Cardinal Michael F. Czerny Check out this amazing...
Working Together to Make a Positive Impact
WEFTA is committed to developing reliable water and sanitation systems that serve the communities we work with while empowering project beneficiaries to manage these systems sustainably for the betterment of the systems and users. We also remain dedicated to WASH...