To prevent waterborne disease by promoting family health and self-reliance through at-home, point-of-use water treatment.
VISION
To broaden at-home water disinfection in underdeveloped communities by inviting partner NGOs and government agencies to learn and apply the BWF safe water self-reliance methodology. This simple methodology invites all people to become self-reliant in their safe water-use behaviors.
CORE VALUES
Family Self-reliance lies at the heart of the safe water education purpose. Helping people help themselves underlies all efforts to promote healthy water-use behaviors.
Service drives all program activity. Honesty, integrity, and fairness are basic to all productive collaborations.
Good Science is fundamental to improving the human condition.
Adaptation and flexibility are inherent in all program processes.
Transparency is basic to all working relationships with staff, partner agencies, and donors.
In Atiwa West District, Ghana, trained Safe Water Educators like Mercy and Philip visit every household in their village, sharing the vital news that waterborne disease is easily preventable at home.
Jemima and Francine, like hundreds of mothers in the district, safely disinfect their family’s drinking water using chlorine tablets. Data in these communities now shows diarrhea, dysentery, and typhoid in decline compared to surrounding communities.
In Bright Water School Health Clubs, kids learn and practice safe water habits that keep them healthy, progressing in school, and having fun as they look to a bright future. Below, health club officers disinfect their class’s drinking water station.
At Bright Water Foundation, we help families eliminate waterborne disease by simple at-home water disinfection.
In areas where water becomes easily contaminated through unsanitary conditions and practices—even when collected from a clean water source such as a protected borehole—families must disinfect their water before they drink it or continue to suffer the terrible burden of waterborne disease.
Bright Water’s safe water efforts in Ghana help households become SAFE WATER FAMILIES by focusing on 5 safe water habits.
Have a suitable DEDICATED WATER CONTAINER used only for drinking and for preparing uncooked food.
DISINFECT WATER with chlorine tablets every time water is added to the container.
TAKE WATER SAFELY FROM THE CONTAINER for drinking, using methods that do not reintroduce contamination.
DISINFECT THE CONTAINER WEEKLY and guard it from mishandling.