His name is Chris Doggett, and outside of this blog, you may never know his name or hear his story. In addition to heading up our Seattle BH2O+ planning team, he is a Captain in the US Marine Corps. He served in Iraq during one of his deployments. Much like Jake, he saw the tangible …
Last night, I sat in the Street Bean in Seattle, reflecting on what seemed like a past life. In 2006 and 2007, I was your regular Seattleite. I lived a Greenlake, worked for “the man”, and hung out with friends in Belltown. I cared about money, retirement, and being heard. I worked 60 hours a …
Well Lenore has almost 10,000 new miles, we have been through 17 states, and we have consumed enough coffee to float a small battleship. I figured if I were going to be drinking that much coffee I should probably stop making so much trash from all the empty cups… I picked up the mug that …
We’re out to make a huge impact this year through each BH2O+ event! Our two primary goals are to attract a high turnout to each event and to raise significant funds for Nuru’s sustainable projects in Kuria, Kenya. In 2009, BH2O+ attracted 800 students and raised enough funding to drill four deep wells, each placed …
Last week the Nuru Tour Team visited Stanford University. It was exciting to be on Stanford’s beautiful campus and to see where Nuru began. We had a Nuru Tour event at CoHo, the Stanford Coffee House, on Wednesday night. Once we got everything set up for our presentation, we realized that most of the people …
In order to make our projects truly sustainable, Nuru works with the community to create innovative revenue generation models that will eventually be able to meet all the expenses of the project – making the community truly financially self-sufficient. Many times, these ideas come from our Kenyan team. Philip and his team are incredibly resourceful …
My name is Thomas Hong and I am here in Kuria West as the new Education Program Manager. I have been here almost three weeks observing and learning about the Education program as well as about all Nuru programs. I have also met more people than I can remember while trying to adjust to not …
You all know that the world is flat. If you don’t, you need to read Thomas Friedman’s book, “The World Is Flat.” Basically he says that cheap communication (i.e. the Internet) has “flattened” the world; barriers of space, geography and culture are becoming irrelevant because of the ease of communication.
Outrunning the Rain Check in with the team is at 8am – we stand in a circle and report in brief what we did yesterday and what we’ll be doing today. It helps with the logistics for that day. After check in I’m scarfing down oatmeal and coffee, trying to send an email to my …
Deep Well Buy-in Program Over the past two weeks, I managed to fill up an entire notebook, drain two pens, and completely cover my wall in fluorescent-colored sticky notes (this neurotic mess is featured in the photo). My Design Thinking training informed me that the very first thing I needed to do upon arrival back …
Removing the rust and getting back into the field is always a challenge. It always amazes me just how quickly I can become soft. The calluses- both internal and external- seem to thin at a much quicker rate than they were earned. My cast-iron stomach has been the result of years of bacterial battles from …
I’ve know I’ve kept you waiting long enough, so here’s the exciting conclusion to “A Day in the Life”… enjoy! If you didn’t get a chance to read the first part, you can do so here 2:05pm: We hand the keys to Lenore over to Arturo (owner of Imperial Tire Plus), who takes her for …
From time to time, Nuru is invited to share our story at conferences, and it’s something we really enjoy. We love being able to share our story with others and invite them to join with us as we work together to end extreme poverty, one community at a time. It also gives us an opportunity …
Today the Nuru Tour Team is driving from Palo Alto, CA to Portland, OR, which is about a 10 hour drive. This is not the first of our LONG driving days, but fortunately it has been about a week and a half since we have had to travel such a long distance in a …
At this point, it’s a no-brainer: the only thing left to do is get involved! And that starts with signing up your campus or city center. If you know you’ve got the gusto to roll this event out on your campus or in your city center, contact Nuru today – we’ve got planning tools and …