Tag Archives: Interview

Q&A with our clean water expert in Uganda

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Rachael Dill Boyer in Causes

Leading up to World Water Day on March 22, we’re going to do a series of posts about our work in the area of water and sanitation, giving you some ideas of how to get involved. Back in November, I got to see some of our clean water programs in northern Uganda, a place that is still scarred by decades of brutal civil war with Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). I never knew how complex the solution to the problem of clean water could be — but I got to learn from some experts and ask a lot of questions. One of the most informative conversations I had was with John Steifel, World Vision’s Uganda water, sanitation, and hygiene...

Got an iPhone? Find World Vision!

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Eugene Lee, WV publications in Conversations

New iPhone app from World Vision | World Vision Blog

iPhone users can now stay in touch with World Vision and keep up to date with humanitarian issues and emergency response news through World Vision Now, our new iPhone app! It’s easy to find — just search for “World Vision Now” in the App Store on your iPhone, and look for our orange icon. Here are answers to some frequently asked questions....

Answers from aid workers about Haiti

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Elizabeth Ranade-Janis in Conversations

Today is the two-year anniversary of the massive earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, leaving the nation in ruins and triggering an international relief response. In the time since, aid workers and relief organizations have experienced an unprecedented level of scrutiny surrounding the response: What is really happening there? Are donations going to good use? Is there hope? To gain some insight into these matters, we hosted an open mic for questions about Haiti this past week. Your submissions have been collected for responses from World Vision aid workers who have been focused on the relief efforts in Haiti — Jeff Wright and Liz Ranade-Janis. Jeff and Liz were deployed to Haiti following the 2010 quake to coordinate...

Ask an aid worker about Haiti

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Lindsey Talerico-Hedren in Conversations

There are few disaster response efforts that have received the level of public scrutiny that has been focused on the international response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. As a result of the earthquake relief response in Haiti, it’s likely that most Americans have formed their own opinions about humanitarian aid. Questions like these and their answers (or lack of answers) influence our understanding and opinion of aid work: Did my donation really help? Why hasn’t anything been accomplished there? I watched one news channel that looks like everything is progressing quite well, and another that shows everything is in complete disarray. What’s the truth? What’s really happening? Two years seems like enough time to make some progress. Is the aid...

Why we start with water and sanitation

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Rachael Dill Boyer in Causes

Recently I was invited on a trip with World Vision donors to visit our clean water programs in Uganda. I’m really proud that World Vision’s water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programming is among the most advanced in the sector and helps thousands of children and families in communities affected by drought, natural disasters, and poor living conditions around the world. While in Uganda, I talked with John Steifel, World Vision’s Uganda WASH program coordinator. I sat down with him for an informal interview so he could explain to me why we start with water in a community, and why clean water by itself isn’t enough. He gave such a clear explanation of why sanitation and hygiene programs have to go...