December 18, 2019

Wheels4Water Has New Direction

The past six years have been filled with incredible and challenging cycling to support over 18,000 Africans by bringing safe water, sanitation and hygiene training to their villages. After seeing the work firsthand in the Congo, Uganda and Ethiopia, Wheels4Water has a big announcement. Lifewater International will now be the owner of the Wheels4Water event…

November 16, 2015

Back From Africa: A Little Recap

It’s been a few months now since the Wheels4Water team traveled to Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to see the work being done in partnership with Lifewater International. We’re always thrilled to take trips like this, but on this trip we were no longer passive observers. Instead, we were able to be actively involved…

August 20, 2015

Project Update in the DROC

We are celebrating progress on the mission to help children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRoC) get safe water and sanitation! The area we’re reaching is Nebobongo, in the northeastern part of DRoC. It’s a remote and difficult place, with few roads and very limited access. No one outside of Nebobongo has reached this area…

June 15, 2015

New Program Launches to Reach Schools in D.R. Congo

Over 1,500 students will get access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education for the first time. Your support of Wheels4Water is helping this happen! Children at five primary schools in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will benefit from a new water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) program beginning this month (March 2015). Lifewater, together…

June 02, 2015

Recap of 2015 Wheels4Water Day 1!

The team clocked in just over 100 miles during their first day of the 2015 Wheels4Water ride in California from Calistoga to Half Moon Bay! While feeling a bit achy and sore, our spirits could not be higher as we push on. It was an eventful ride, marked by every type of weather imaginable from…

May 12, 2015

Wheels4Water: The Official Cause of HOW Design Live!

Almost a month ago we had received an exciting message that we had reached just over $9,000 of our $18,000 goal of helping 450 DROC children get water, sanitation and hygiene education for life. This past week, May 4-8, we had a chance to eclipse that goal even more. We were asked by the HOW…

April 24, 2015

We’re halfway there!

We’re proud to announce we have raised over half of our funding for the 2015 Wheels4Water ride! This means we are halfway there to provide 450 children in the DROC with clean water and sanitation training for life. All of this progress is thanks to people and businesses around the country who are passionate about…

March 12, 2015

A bit of perspective

Imagine for a moment… Its 1pm and you’re a twelve year old sitting in school. As you listen to the teacher, you wipe the sweat from your forehead. Its about 90°F outside, but inside the walls of the sparse, concrete school building, the temperature is intensified. In the small, crowded room, you’re surrounded by 25…

January 27, 2015

We have a HUGE announcement!

This Spring, we will embark on another ride to help provide water and sanitation to a school in need! We will ride 450 miles down the coast of California from Santa Rosa to the Lifewater headquarters in San Luis Obispo, raising funds and awareness for a childrens’ school in the Democratic Republic of the Congo! …