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Afghanistan Project Insight
Greetings! This was a dispatch I wrote from the field during our recent Afghanistan Project in Dec ’11. Wanted to shed some further light on what I feel is truly a ground breaking initiative. I knew this Afghan project would be significant, but today… today was hands down one of the best experiences I’ve had [...]
Read moreAfghan Campaign: W4W & The Wolfhounds
I write today with the great excitement of introducing our recent project in Afghanistan with you. About six months ago a US Army Captain by the name of Michael Brabner reached out to us through our website. His battalion, called The Wolfhounds, is stationed in Northern Afghanistan in the Kunar Provence. He contacted us to [...]
Read moreClean Water Couriers: Struntz family goes to Panama
“The Golden Rule” Do unto others…The Golden rule…How easy it is to lose track following thru on such a basic principle and of all the little moments in life that we should be thankful for!…This Thanksgiving, my little family journeyed to Panama to enjoy a little break from the chaos of our modern lives. Most [...]
Read moreSWU Forum – Brazil
Hey Friends! In route home from SWU Forum and wanted to send a few pics… Was really an incredible moment in the Waves For Water journey… There was an incredibly inspiring range of speakers – Neil Young was an obvious highlight and talked on the first of two panels on day one (was also his [...]
Read moreHUCK Magazine (UK) features Waves for Water
Former pro surfer Jon Rose is sidestepping the bureaucracy of aid organisations and providing clean water for the people who need it most. Text Giuliano Cedroni & photography Vavá Ribeiro Jon Rose looks like a regular surf dude: tan skin, pale blue eyes, and a friendly smile on his face. But for over a decade this former WCT [...]
Read moreOutside Magazine Features W4W
Bright Idea: DIY Disaster Relief By: WILLIAM WHEELER In September 2009, California surfer Jon Rose was sailing toward the island of Sumatra, carrying ten water filters that he planned to deliver to a rural community while enjoying a surf trip in Indonesia. Rose was looking to move on from his career as a Quiksilver-sponsored surfing [...]
Read moreCoastal Hero – Jon Rose
He’s been popping up everywhere lately. From Haiti news stories, to CNN, to now, in Coastal Living Magazine. Jon Rose of Waves for Water and Hurley’s H2O Campaign is traveling the world saving lives one filter at a time. Share this postTweet
Read moreSWU Partnership – Brazil
One of the best things about what we do is being exposed to people/groups around the world who are doing innovative and inspiring things… people out there, taking initiative and choosing to not only do their part, but trail-blaze in the process. Of course I love our country – it’s been a place that is [...]
Read moreNike Game Changer Project // Haiti – Phase II
W4W+Hurley+Nike = GameChanger Kit (Phase 2) from Waves For Water on Vimeo. We always feel good about giving the gift of clean water. In my opinion, water is a god given right – like air… But the fact that there are still such staggering statistics, such as – 1 out of 6 people do not [...]
Read moreProject Pakistan
This month marks the anniversary of the devastating floods in Pakistan Christian Troy and Jordan Tappis revisit Pakistan on behalf of Waves For Water. Pakistan’s floods of Summer 2010 were rated by the United Nations as the greatest humanitarian crisis that the UN has ever faced. And although it measured such magnitude, the [...]
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