---
title: "World Vision Water Update: April 2022"
---

This provides an update on World Vision water efforts to address the global water crisis.

| View in browser View past editions of this newsletter here. Finishing the Job in Rwanda World Vision and our partners have committed to provide clean water to everyone, everywhere we work by 2030 which means reaching 50 million people across 41 countries between 2016-2030. Six years into our 15-year effort, we are on track having reached 22.5 million people. More recently, we have committed to bring some countries forward and finish the job prior to 2030. This includes Rwanda by 2023, Zambia by 2025, and Honduras by 2027. This newsletter focuses on our progress in Rwanda.    At World Vision’s recent Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Forum we shared our progress in Rwanda. This 16-minute video includes an introduction to our vision of reaching everyone by Sean Kerrigan, VP of Philanthropy for World Vision U.S. and then a fascinating hi-tech presentation by Peter Hynes from World Vision U.S. and Alice Muhimpundu of World Vision Rwanda. They show how we are using mapping technology to verify that we’re reaching everyone, everywhere we work – 1 million people with clean water between 2019 and 2023.       In the final few minutes of the video, you’ll hear from World Vision Rwandan staff and community members, including a local pastor who explains how World Vision and the church are partnering together to help people.   In our Rwanda project, we have been using three different versions of maps to help us plan and visualize our progress towards finishing the job. Each version increases in complexity – and frankly off-the-charts increasing nerd appeal with each version (count me in!).   Version 1 of this mapping exercise is shown above where you can see in stop-light colors how we are reaching everyone over 5 years.  Red is very low coverage, yellow shows progress, and green is when we’ve finished the job.   Version 2 of the mapping uses high resolution satellite imagery and machine learning to create new maps showing where people live. We then send in our field teams with GPS devices to locate all the existing water points so that we can determine where to put the new water systems to ensure we reach everyone.   Version 3 provides a virtual visit to the completed areas using 3D animation of the satellite imagery. At a minimum, we urge you to watch this animation which begins 12 minutes and 20 seconds into the video. We have learned a lot from this work in Rwanda which we are now reapplying to Zambia and Honduras. We are learning and expanding our efforts and getting better at working with local partners in order to reach everyone. In Rwanda, this includes government certification that we have finished the job in each of the areas where we work. It’s not an exaggeration to say that our finish the job efforts have been a game-changer for World Vision, our donor partners, and the people that we serve. World Water Day: Finish the Job Zambia Our live fund-raising event for Zambia exceeded all of our expectations. As one donor observed: “God really showed up!” Our goal was to raise $3 million in order to provide clean water to 60,000 people. At the end of the evening, we had raised more than $8.7 million. Also, during the event, Tom and Mary Vande Guchte provided a match of up to $1 million for any new donations to Zambia. There’s still $725,378 matching dollars available. In the year since we launched our effort to Finish the Job in Zambia, we have now raised in multi-year commitments and donations more than one-half of the amount needed from US donors to fully fund this effort ($27 million of the $50 million needed)!    Thank you for being part of the effort to solve the global water crisis.  Prayer Requests Give praise for the donor partners that made our live fund-raising event for Zambia on World Water Day such a success.  Pray that God continues to favor World Vision as we seek to provide clean water in the name of Jesus to 50 million people.  Give thanks for the availability of technology and the staff that know how to use it to enable World Vision to be a leader in ending the global water crisis.   worldvisionphilanthropy.org/water © 2022 World Vision, Inc. All rights reserved. World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. Motivated by our faith in Jesus Christ, we serve alongside the poor and oppressed as a demonstration of God’s unconditional love for all people. World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender. In 2021, 90% of World Vision's total operating expenses were used for programs that benefit children, families, and communities in need. Learn More.  World Vision, P.O. Box 9716, Federal Way, WA 98063 Unsubscribe Manage preferences |
| --- |