Notes From
The Field

Some of the most meaningful work at Wine To Water happens behind the scenes. For Kened Snilla, that work began each morning not in a field site or office, but at his computer in Tanzania.

Three days before Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica, Wine To Water was already making preparations to deploy. As the storm churned toward the Caribbean island, our team reached out to local contacts and partner organizations, packed deployment bags, and began working through the logistics that would soon be needed on the ground.

Every Tuesday morning, before Wine To Water’s Boone warehouse fully comes to life, Jill Storelli walks in, greets the staff and volunteers, and begins prepping water filtration kits just like she has for months. You don’t have to be a world record holder to serve with Wine To Water—but Jill is. In 2016, she tied the deadlifting world record for her age group. It wasn’t her first achievement, and it wouldn’t be her last. That’s the kind of person Jill is; when she commits to s

On the one year anniversary of Hurricane Helene, we look back at its aftermath.

When globally dispersed teams come together, it's people like Francisca Mota who benefit.

Everyone deserves access to health and safety, regardless of their gender. Despite half of the world’s population experiencing...

In the rural community of Mayatar, waste generation was once an overbearing issue affecting the people in Nepal. Plastic bottles littered...

During Hurricane Helene, neighbors helped neighbors, and Wine To Water is still here providing hurricane relief to our community.

Children in the cliffside community of Katheswora, Nepal, are eager to learn, but their education was hindered by the lack of safe water...

For women like Fatuma, the lack of clean water is a life- long burden. The 63-year-old has lived her entire life without a safe source of...