2025-05-29T15:46:14-07:00 2024-12-31 200570323 Nelson & Associates CPAs 2230 Longport Ct Ste 110 Elk Grove CA 95758 990EZ 2024-01-01 272483668 INTERNATIONAL WATER AND HEALTH ALLIANCES INTE 5304758065 417 MACE BLVD J-187 DAVIS CA 95618 PATRICK WIDNER Treasurer 2025-05-29 true true Michelle Nelson CPA CFE MST P00453363 9162996800 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X waterinternational.org X X 143500 X 143500 0 0 0 0 143500 122164 3490 850 5780 20235 152519 -9019 24639 15620 24639 15620 24639 15620 24639 15620 To reduce waterborne disease among the 2 billion people in low-income countries who suffer from 6.5 million cases of severe diarrhea each day, mainly from contaminated drinking water. The Kenya Shilling, which traded at 150,5 per dollar in January, 2024, inexplicably traded at 134.2/$ in March, 2024, and by April, 2024, traded at 124/$ where it remained for the rest of the year. This meant that from March on, IWHA had to pay 20% more dollars for the same number of Shillings transferred to the Friends of the Old community-based organization (FOTO) each month than it did at the start of 2024. The FOTO staff is composed of 28 women, two each in the 13 locations who deliver FOTO projects and act as social workers for the elderly, Project Director Dinah Chienjo and Office Assistant Susan Awino and three men (Project Coordinator Joseph Abende, Computer Instructor Wycliffe Ade, Security Officer Fredrick Orondo). IWHA pays the monthly social security and national health insurance fee for all FOTO staff.FOTOs main project is implementing a replicable strategy to eliminate waterborne disease for the 70,000 citizens of Lower Nyakach who have unimproved, contaminated drinking water sources. The strategy involves FOTO staff conducting microbial testing at the community level using the 10 ml Colilert test and the 1.0 ml quantitative E. coli Petrifilm test to demonstrate to citizens that drinking water sources pose a very high disease risk. IWHA monthly provides funds for distribution of 9,300 150 ml bottles of Aquaguard chlorine to households and schools to disinfect contaminated water sources. Lower Nyakach is the one place in the world where a community-based organization has implemented a strategy to eliminate waterborne diseases. The FOTO strategy could be replicated in villages worldwide where two billion people do not have access to safe drinking water. As in previous years since 2011, IWHA funded monthly distribution of ~200 reading glasses to the elderly in one of the 13 locations, to restore the dignity and usefulness of reading and doing close work, as there are no inexpensive reading glasses in Kenya. Knowing that hunger is widespread in Lower Nyakach, at each distribution, IWHA provided $100 extra so that FOTO could provide glasses recipients with a filling meal of rice and beans in addition to mandazis (donut-like pastries) and Kenya tea (with milk and spices). There is much joy at the distributions, as old friends see each other again, they have a good meal, and they receive a quality pair of reading glasses. To address the problem of hunger and food insecurity, IWHA once again provided FOTO with funds to purchase and distribute 2600 2kg packages of certified Serado sorghum seed to 200 impoverished elderly households in each of the 13 locations. Households were selected by consultation with chiefs and village elders. Harvesting sorghum in June & July provided 2-3 90kg bags of sorghum to be the main source of household food for much of the year. As in previous years, FOTO to provide useful items to the community. At the end of the year, 3,000 monthly 2025 pocket calendars & pens were given to teachers, chiefs, village elders, government officials, and thousands of citizens. In December, IWHA paid for FOTO to purchase and then distribute 7,000 16x23 FOTO 2025 wall calendars, three pages each with 4 months. The main photo on the first page, January-April, is of Mary Beth and Bob with Roselida Aumo, Kabodho West Location, with Roselide holding bottles of Aquaguard in each hand. The second main photo is of FOTO Director Dinah Chienjo receiving the Heros award from the district commissioner at a big ceremony on October 20, 2024. The third photo is of six exuberant kids with Aquaguard chlorine bottles. The top of each page has FOTOs and IWHAs logo and the statement The Goal is Zero (waterborne disease) At the bottom of each page is the Kenya constitution statement that all Kenyans have a right to safe drinking water. The Kenya government ignores this, IWHA takes it seriously.In 2024, 21 USA IWHA donors sponsored 60 secondary school girls in forms 1-4, paying all school fees and supplies. A unique aspect of this sponsorship is that Dinah Chienjo arranges special activities for the girls during two short term breaks and the long November-December break at the end of the academic year. During the short breaks, the emphasis was on reviewing subjects covered in the previous term. Dinah hired two excellent teachers from Paw Tenge secondary school to conduct the review of subjects, mainly math and science. The girls, teachers, and FOTO staff have Kenya tea and mandazies as a mid-morning snack and a good lunch. The girls also have time with computers for internet use. In November, master tailor Esther worked with the Form 1-3 students to make their school uniform for 2025. The form 2 and 3 students learned tailoring in 2023, and they quickly refreshed their skills and made their uniforms in three days. The Form 1 students were just learning tailoring skills and took a week to complete their uniforms.On June 13, 2024, at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Atlanta, Bob and Kehinde Eniola, Vice-Chancellor, Kogi State University, Kabba, Nigeria, led a water testing workshop for international microbiologists from 17 countries. The next day participants shared their results at the ASM booth. At the end of the workshop, participants were given a Portable Microbiology Laboratory to perform 25 water tests and flash drive with teaching materials so that they could share the testing methods with their colleagues and students when they returned to their countries. IWHA also gave Professor Eniola a suitcase of PML items to take back to Kogi State University to share with colleagues and students.While Professor Vincent Chigor, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, was in the United States to present a poster at a virology conference, Bob arranged for Vincent to come to Sacramento June 18-22 for intense water testing activities and to introduce Professor Chigor to solar cooking. In 2022, 2023, and 2024, Professor Chigor organized an International Conference on Water in Africa, at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where, through zoom, Bob was a keynote speaker and IWHA provided Professor Chigor with PML materials to hold a water testing workshop during the ICWA Conference. After the working sessions in Sacramento, IWHA gave Professor Chigor a suitcase full of PML items for him to take back to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. IWHA also supports Faustine Odaba, Mama Solar, in Nairobi, to promote water testing with the PML, solar water pasteurization and solar cooking using a Cookit. Faustine is the worlds leading solar cook, first introducing the Cookit to refugees in the Kakuma Refugee camp in 1995 and being the main trainer for Solar Cookers Internationals East Africa office through 2009 when SCI closed its Kenya office. Faustine also assisted Bob Metcalf on water testing workshops all over Kenya from 2002-2013. FOTOs The Goal is Zero strategy needs to be known worldwide so that the 2 billion people who have contaminated drinking water sources can replicate the FOTO model. IWHA continues its efforts to make this invisible project visible.The Kenya Shilling, which traded at 150,5 per dollar in January, 2024, inexplicably traded at 134.2/$ in March, 2024, and by April, 2024, traded at 124/$ where it remained for the rest of the year. This meant that from March on, IWHA had to pay 20% more dollars for the same number of Shillings transferred to the Friends of the Old community-based organization (FOTO) each month than it did at the start of 2024. The FOTO staff is composed of 28 women, two each in the 13 locations who deliver FOTO projects and act as social workers for the elderly, Project Director Dinah Chienjo and Office Assistant Susan Awino and three men (Project Coordinator Joseph Abende, Computer Instructor Wycliffe Ade, Security Officer Fredrick Orondo). IWHA pays the monthly social security and national health insurance fee for all FOTO staff.FOTOs main project is implementing a replicable strategy to eliminate waterborne disease for the 70,000 citizens of Lower Nyakach who have unimproved, contaminated drinking water sources. The strategy involves FOTO staff conducting microbial testing at the community level using the 10 ml Colilert test and the 1.0 ml quantitative E. coli Petrifilm test to demonstrate to citizens that drinking water sources pose a very high disease risk. IWHA monthly provides funds for distribution of 9,300 150 ml bottles of Aquaguard chlorine to households and schools to disinfect contaminated water sources. Lower Nyakach is the one place in the world where a community-based organization has implemented a strategy to eliminate waterborne diseases. The FOTO strategy could be replicated in villages worldwide where two billion people do not have access to safe drinking water. 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