Session Overview
I am the sole half-time employee of a nonprofit with a semi active board and a couple of volunteers who help out on occasion. No one has the website or social media aptitude that we need to get the word out on a number of issues, events and programs. I have not been successful in getting unpaid interns (even if they can get college credit). I need some help in obtaining these interns or other volunteers and/or working with some AI program if that makes sense. I'd like to create a job for one or two Taproot volunteers to assist me with this but I thought it might be helpful to talk it through with someone first and get a clear idea of the discreet projects we may need (it may be more than one).
Nonprofit Overview
Texas Water Mission (TWM) supports communities in need by providing safe drinking water and hygiene solutions.
The organization has helped over 75,000 people in Honduras, Haiti, and the Navajo Nation gain access to clean water since 1998. The work of providing safe drinking water to communities in need began when a group of San Antonians flew to Honduras to determine how they might help in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch. The discovery that cholera was being spread by contaminated water set things in motion. All these years later we are still finding practical solutions to access safe water and training children and adults in our project areas about best practices for maintaining health and hygiene and conserving scarce resources.
Since 1998, the impacts of climate change have worsened and more of the world experiences drought and intense storms on a regular basis. Honduras, with its rainy and dry seasons, swings from one extreme to the other, paralyzed by heavy rains and flooding from May to October, and the drying out of natural water sources shortly after their summer begins in November.
Honduras’ ongoing water crisis is further complicated by poverty, crime, and political unrest, creating a life full of disruptions. This is also the case in Haiti where TWM subsidized a solar powered rainwater cistern for a small church and school in 2021, which is maintained by a larger organization. TWM continues to monitor and maintain its 30+ active water wells, education program, and water filter project in Honduras, in addition to drilling new wells and investigating additional opportunities for safe water projects.
TWM added the Navajo Nation to its scope of work in 2019. The first project was construction and distribution of handwashing stations and emergency supplies to 120 families isolated by Covid. Shortly thereafter, TWM installed and plumbed an underground cistern to supply an Episcopal community center with clean water. Currently, the organization is leading an effort to install a public water access point at an Episcopal church near Monument Valley, Utah, that will provide free, safe well water to approximately 5,000 residents of the reservation.