2026-03-04T14:24:22-08:00 2025-12-31 200570323 Nelson & Associates CPAs 2230 Longport Ct Ste 110 Elk Grove CA 95758 990EZ 2025-01-01 272483668 INTERNATIONAL WATER AND HEALTH ALLIANCES INTE 5304758065 417 MACE BLVD J-187 DAVIS CA 95618 PATRICK WIDNER Treasurer 2026-03-04 true Michelle Nelson CPA CFE MST P00453363 9162996800 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X waterinternational.org X X 149905 X 149905 0 0 0 0 149905 122205 1125 4728 12509 140567 9338 15620 24958 15620 24958 15620 24958 15620 24958 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 Friends of the Old (FOTO) office is in the town of Katito in Lower Nyakach, Kenya. The biggest city nearby, an hour by matatu, is Kisumu, where FOTO has its post office box. The FOTO staff has 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 Lydia Treeza Ouma and three men (Project Coordinator Joseph Abende, Computer Instructor Michael Chienjo, and Security Officer Fredrick Orondo). IWHA pays their monthly salary, social security, and national health insurance fees.FOTOs main project is implementing a replicable strategy to eliminate waterborne disease for the 70,000 citizens of Lower Nyakach who have only 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 FOTO with funds for distribution of 9,300 150 ml bottles of Aquaguard chlorine to households and schools to disinfect contaminated water sources. Colilert and Petrifilm testing before and after treating water with Aquaguard provide striking visual evidence that treating water with Aquaguard kills bacteria and makes water safe to drink.The FOTO project in Lower Nyakach is the one place in the world where a community-based organization has implemented a strategy to eliminate waterborne disease. 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 the FOTO staff 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. With sufficient rain, there was a good harvest in June & July providing 2-3 90kg bags of sorghum to be the main source of household food for much of the year. As in previous years, FOTO provided useful items to the community. In December 2025, 3,000 monthly 2026 pocket calendars & pens were given to teachers, chiefs, village elders, government officials, and thousands of citizens. In December 2025, IWHA paid for FOTO to purchase and distribute 8,000 16x23 FOTO 2026 wall calendars, three pages each with 4 months. The main photo on the first page, January-April, is of the FOTO staff with new shirts in front of the FOTO office. The second main photo shows women recipients of 2 kg bags of certified Serado seed. The third page main photo is of Mary Otieno, VAF, Rangul Location, teaching hand washing at Kanyalwal Primary School. The top of each page has FOTOs and IWHAs logos and the statement The Goal is Zero (waterborne disease). The bottom of each page has the Kenya 2010 constitution statement that Every person has the right to clean and safe water in adequate quantities. In 2025, 21 USA IWHA donors sponsored 53 secondary school girls in forms 2-4, paying all school fees and supplies. As Kenya increased primary school from 8 to 9 years in 2025, there was no Form 1 class in secondary school in 2025. A unique aspect of this girl sponsorship is that Dinah Chienjo arranges special activities for the girls during term breaks in April and August and during the long November-December break at the end of the academic year. During the term 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, biology, and chemistry. 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 2 and 3 students to make their school uniform for 2026. These students learned tailoring skills after completing Form 1 and they refreshed their skills to make a new school uniform for 2026. 24 IWHA sponsored Form Four girls graduated from secondary school in November. 2025. They enjoyed two days at the FOTO office in December celebrating, evaluating their experiences, receiving new shoes, pens, monthly planners, sanitary pads and ibuprofen tablets, and the last monthly 1,000 Kenya Schillings for the girls and their guardians. 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 and set up solar cooking demonstrations all over Kenya from 2002-2013. In January 2025, IWHA made an 87 second YouTube video as one requirement for an Open Call grant offered by Action for Womens Health that IWHA applied for. IWHA requested funding for FOTO to increase water testing in Kenya and to greatly expand solar cooking with the Cookit in Lower Nyakach. FOTOs strategy to eliminate waterborne disease could be replicated worldwide by the 2 billion people without safe drinking water. FOTOs expertise in solar cooking could be replicated by hundreds of millions of women in low-income countries who have sunshine for many months but only know fire cooking. Heres the link. https://youtu.be/27AK3tzhKTIThe first evaluation of Action for Womens Health proposals was a peer review process, where each applicant was given scores in four categories by four other applicants. Two reviewers gave IWHAs application 4s and 5s, but two reviewers gave 2s and made comments unrelated to solar cooking and eliminating waterborne disease. In November, Action for Womens Health announced that 83 grants were given to worthy organizations. However, not one award addressed waterborne disease or an alternative to fire cooking for women. FOTOs unique and transforming expertise remain invisible. World Water Week in Stockholm is the largest annual water conference put on every August by the Stockholm International Research Institute (SIWI). Sessions are in person and virtual, with sessions live and recorded. Bob attended WWW in 2010 and 2011, demonstrating the PML at the UN-Habitat booth and giving PMLs and flash drives with teaching materials to several dozen international delegates each year. Since 2015, a main topic of WWW has been the UNs Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 6.1: By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all.Bob watched a dozen presentations of World Water Week 2025. Many presenters mentioned that 2.2 billion people do not have safe drinking water but then the speakers moved on, not being horrified at the millions of cases of severe diarrhea and thousands of deaths that result daily. Many speakers acknowledged that SDG6.1 would not be achieved, but there is no Plan B. At the closing session of WWW, it was announced that the theme of WWW 2026 will be Water for People and Progress. IWHA realized that this was an opportunity to educate SIWI and the international water community about water testing with the Portable Microbiology Laboratory, solar water pasteurization and the WAPI, and FOTOs replicable strategy to eliminate waterborne disease by nominating Bob for the 2026 Stockholm Water Prize. Bob qualified with his research developing the PML, establishing solar water pasteurization guidelines and in developing guidelines for the water pasteurization indicator (WAPI). Bob qualified under Policy and Practices by advancing the human right to safe drinking water in the FOTO project since 2012. Bob contacted microbiology, solar and other friends requesting they submit nominations before the September 18, 2025, deadline. IWHA is delighted that several dozen nominations for Bob were submitted, including from Faustine, Dinah, teachers, health workers, government officials in Lower Nyakach as well as from FOTO staff. 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