We are excited to be joining a team who are providing care to remote communities who live in remote villages along the Amazon banks. We're taking a break from high school to travel by boat 100 miles up river from Manaus, the Jungle City. 

Why? We know there's always lots to do to support the team in this kind of mission. We're training to learn how to dispense reading glasses. Bringing water filters is bringing millions of gallons of clean water and its so easy to bring in our luggage. Drinkable water is something we take for granted back home. 

Thank you for helping us,
Rosie and Mia

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Brazilian Amazon Medical and Dental Outreach Clinics

Brazilian Amazon medical and dental outreach clinics.

Water filters for Ethiopia

Coming from Germany, I’ve dreamed of going to Mozambique for quite some time now — drawn by the ocean, the surfing, and the chance to do something meaningful. After reading Castillo et al. (2025), I realized how deeply access to clean water shapes children’s growth and futures, and how unequal that access still is. Today, around 40% of people in Mozambique do not have reliable access to safe drinking water, and I want to be part of changing that — combining my love for the sea with a commitment to making clean water accessible to all.

Improve Water Access in Mozambique: 

The Irie surf program was a surf therapy initiative aimed to take place in Jamaica in November 2025. Considering the impact hurricane Melissa had on the island, we'd like to adapt our actions to the needs on the ground by providing clean water access to community in needs in St Andrew Parish, where the Jamnesia Surf Camp is located.

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Irie surf program joins hurricane relief efforts 

On October 28, 2025, Category 5 Hurricane Melissa devastated the island nation of Jamaica, leaving an estimated 90% of the island’s infrastructure destroyed. The electrical grid and water systems have been rendered inoperable for an unknown duration, and access to safe drinking water is critically limited.

In response, we are delivering 300 compact, effective, and easy-to-use water filters to communities in need. Each filter can produce up to 1,000,000 gallons (3,785,410 liters) of clean water over its lifespan—enough to sustain 100 people for up to five years.

Your support empowers these surfers’ mission to bring relief where it’s needed most. Together, we can turn compassion into action and help restore life—one clean sip at a time.

Clean water for Jamaica

To pass water filters to communities through remote areas of Mongolia and Ulaanbaantar. 

Mongolia - Safe Water Access

Water filter for people in Chiquimula, Guatemala

CLEAN WATER FOR CHIQUIMULA, GUATEMALA (PROSSERNAZ)

Funding for this project will go towards women's agricultural cooperatives in Nicaragua. Through a partnership with LA Fem (Fundación Entre Mujeres)  these water filters will go toward rural communities in region of Esteli Nicaragua and the Coastal region of Leon Nicaragua. 

LA FEM provides, land, seeds, tools, education, legal services, health resources and various tools to empower women in rural communities in entrepreneurship. They achieve this through granting women these resources to grow organic coffee, utilizing agroecological and other sustainable farming practices. Through partnership they enable the women market access with fair trade organization in the US and Europe to sell the coffee they grow at above-market rates. 

When a women or group of women are productive enough, they pass on these same resources on to keep to ensure the model continues to be self-sustaining. Through this arm of the program alone, LA FEM has empowered thousands of women create income and livelihoods for their families and communities. 

Even so, clean water is something that is still difficult to access for many communities. When it rains the streams, rivers and water resources often become contaminated often severely effecting children. Millions of children die evert year in communities like these through preventable illnesses like pneumonia and diarrhea. 

Clean Water for Women's Empowerment Co-Operatives in Nicaragfua

Clean Drinking Water for All

Howzit Waves for Water Team,

My name is Ben Yeager, from Sunset Beach, Oahu.

Currently I'm located in Perth, AUS. I serve as the rotational Chief Officer on "Motor Yacht Just B". You can find us on Instagram at @explorer_just_b  I work in 2:2 rotations, which allows me to travel extensively during my 2 month off periods. I am eager to discuss the possibility of partnering with Waves for Water to courier your water kits to remote areas during my travels this year.

The two rotation captains of Motor Yacht Just B are enthusiastic about supporting Waves for Water's mission. We have planned a number of explorations through Indonesia, culminating in West Papua around January 2025, before heading north to the Philippines. 

We carry excellent camera equipment and drones onboard, enabling us to feature Waves for Water and produce high-quality content.

I believe that our journey and resources provide a perfect opportunity to highlight and support W4W. I would love to initiate a conversation about how we can collaborate on this. Additionally, I am well-connected with Yacht Aid Global and plan to pitch this initiative to them for fundraising support.

Our yacht owners are very generous and committed to giving back, especially as we explore Indonesia this year. If we present this partnership well, I am confident they will be fully supportive.

Here is a brief outline of my immediate travel plans:

INDO WEST:

Dates: 11 June - 1 July 2024
Location: Visiting Sumatra, specifically the Krui region. I am currently networking with Putu Juliartha, who is assisting with the Pargo project to identify and connect with the right contacts in Sumatra.
SOUTH AFRICA:

Dates: 2 July - 30 July 2024
Location: Traveling to South Africa. I am in the process of networking with friends there to determine which areas would benefit most from Waves for Water kits.
INDO EAST & WEST PAPUA:

Dates: 19 August 2024 - January 2025
Details:
This segment of the journey will be through Indonesia and culminate in West Papua.
Zak Noyle and his father, close friends of the yacht’s owners, will join us for certain segments, providing an excellent opportunity for content capture by renowned photographers.
I am excited about the potential impact we can make together and look forward to discussing how we can turn this vision into reality. Thank you for considering this partnership opportunity.

Best Regards and Lots of Aloha,
Ben Yeager

INDO WEST, SOUTH AFRICA, & INDO EAST 2024 - WEST PAPUA, PALAU, PHILIPPINES, TAIWAN, JAPAN, BORNEO, CAMBODIA, THAILAND, MALDIVES… ETC.. TBD

A bike ride across the world to provide safe drinking water for all!

A bunch of mates, a lot of passion and love, similar ambition and one vision - to make the world a more beautiful place! We believe that with the incredible privilege to travel and explore this amazing world, comes a responsibility to help create positive change for all! 
A small effort to make a big impact.

If you can turn on a tap to brush your teeth or fill up a glass of water to drink, you are privileged. Clean drinking water is a basic human right, however not everyone has access to it. The world’s water crisis is huge. The United Nations report shows that around 2 billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water, that is 1 in 4 people! In South East Asia alone research suggests that 110 million people are facing water insecurity. 

Finding the Waves 4 Water volunteer courier program was exciting. The opportunity to contribute to solving the world’s water crisis in an easy yet impactful way. Clean water for everyone whilst on an incredible journey! Waves 4 Water have teamed up with Sawyer who have created an easy yet powerful portable filtration system. 

The project is simple and exciting. Cycling across the world to raise money, purchase filters, connect with local communities/schools in need, provide the education and tools to people so they can have access to clean drinking water, all while embracing and learning about their culture. 
We would like to raise enough money for at least 50 filters to make a considerable difference. However we will be incredibly happy to contribute and impact as many people as possible! The filters are easy to implement- only requiring a bucket and the filter to assist in filtration of dirty water. 

The power of your donations:
One filter costs $50 USD / $75 AUD

One filter =
- Provides 100 people with clean drinking water for up to 5 years or 1,000,000 gallons/3,785,410 litres per lifespan of filter
- Output of 360 gallons/1360 litres per day using gravity
- Removes harmful bacteria’s (Protozoa or cysts i.e Cholera, Botulism, Typhoid, Amoebic Dysentery, E. Coli or Giardia)

If you would like to help with The Water Cycle any donations big and small would be much appreciated. Thanks for your support and contributions to making this project come to life. Very excited to travel with a purpose and make a positive impact along the way. Let’s provide clean drinking water to as many people as we can!

*All donations amounts visible on the website are in USD

Thanks! A lot of love  💙

The Water Cycle

There have been 188,000 cholera cases in six southern African countries in the last year, resulting in 3,400 deaths, according to the U.N. Twenty-one thousand of these cases were in Zambia, which saw a severe upsurge in cholera in late 2023 that led to more than 700 deaths.

We have an innitial goal to provide 10 filters for zambian population from Lusaka district. That will provide pure water to 1.000 people for up to 5 years! 

Couriers

Brazilian Amazon Medical and Dental Outreach Clin...

Improve Water Access in Mozambique:

Irie surf program joins hurricane relief efforts

Clean water for Jamaica

Mongolia - Safe Water Access

CLEAN WATER FOR CHIQUIMULA, GUATEMALA (PROSSERNAZ...

Clean Water for Women's Empowerment Co-Operatives...

Clean Drinking Water for All

INDO WEST, SOUTH AFRICA, & INDO EAST 2024 - WEST ...

The Water Cycle

Zambia Against Cholera