During our discussion, you'll discover:

-What is the World Vision Foundation?…09:04

• World Vision is a relief and development organization
• Founded in the 1950s by an American evangelist minister, Robert Pierce
• He was sent to China and Korea on a mission
• When he came back, he started World Vision 
• Initially focused on orphans and children, now includes food, clothing, medical care, and water
• Greenfield family supports an Ethiopian girl through the Foundation
• World Vision Global 6K for Water
• Proceeds of the money from Ben Greenfield Life goes to the Foundation
• Ben Greenfield Life Walk for Water bucket carrying
• Ben had dinner with Michael Gillespie and Randy Haacke
• Michael Gillespie
  • A senior director of corporate engagement at World Vision
  • Oversees the partnership between Ben Greenfield Life and World Vision
• Randy Haacke
  • Spent 10 years in Global Humanitarian resource generation
  • Worked in the US and Canadian agricultural sectors

-The story behind the Walk for Water…13:16

• Over 700 million people in the world don’t have direct access to clean water
  • They have to carry water in buckets from distant places on foot
• The reason for people not having access to water
  • Poverty – people are struggling to survive
• Usually, girls and women spend all day collecting water while the men are working
• The majority of the world's poor live in rural areas
  • Families earn $2 per day
  • Grow food on small parcels of land
  • Plant potato or corn
  • Buy beans and rice
  • Usually have one meal a day
• The average distance to go to get the water is 6km (3.75 miles), several times a day
• They walk on dirt passes, up and down hills to avoid predators
  • Predators are animals and people
  • A lot of violence occurs
• Walk for Water was on May 20
  • 6km of carrying water to bring awareness to the difficulties people go through to have access to clean water
• Companies can do it as a workplace event

-How much money gets raised, and how are the funds used?…22:32

• Only $50 is needed to supply 1 person with free-flowing clean water indefinitely for life
• World Vision’s goal in the next 8 years
  • To raise $1 billion
  • To bring clear water to 50 million people
• At the moment, people drink contaminated water
• Mike and Randy visited a community in Honduras
  • People collected water from the river downstream from sugarcane plantations
  • The water contained pesticides, and the waste from the animals and workers
  • They were filtering with sand
• Partnership with Procter and Gamble
  • A miracle treatment that will clarify and purify water almost instantaneously
  • Not a long-term solution
• He Walks Among Us: Encounters with Christ in a Broken World by Richard Stearns
• The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? by Richard Stearns
• Unfinished: Believing Is Only the Beginning by Richard Stearns
• Ben realized Richard Stearns was part of World Vision and reached out to them
• Ben takes proceeds of the money from KION and Ben Greenfield Life to help the Foundation

-What is the Thrive program?…28:24

• World Vision is involved in addressing all of the root causes of poverty
• Partnering with the communities to empower them to find their own solutions to poverty
• Clean water is the foundation
• Once you have clean water, other things come into play
• People need to be empowered to be able to provide for themselves and to thrive
• THRIVE (Transforming Household Resilience In Vulnerable Environments)
  • Helping families to generate sustaining life income and provide for their children
• Has been in the Copan region of Honduras for 10 years
  • People grow primarily tobacco, corn, and maize
• THRIVE helps farmers with better seeds, better fertilizers, and buying groups
  • Teaches people to grow tomatoes, peppers, and onions
  • Family pressure against new ideas
  • Production increased 10 times with the help of World Vision
  • Galvanizing farmers from individual entities into producer groups with different functions
  • Connecting them with larger markets, even beyond their countries

-Biblically empowered worldview training…39:27

• The mindset of people in extreme poverty
  • Life is a struggle, I don’t matter
  • The focus is on survival
• Biblically empowered worldview training
  • Helps them reorient their worldview
  • They have a loving Creator who has endowed them with talent and potential capability
• Ben's article on the The Greatest Book in the World:
  • The Top 25 Books Everyone Should Read Before They Die (& Ben Greenfield’s Personal Mentor).
• Teaching self-worth and empowerment and using that as a foundation to build societies
• Generational poverty and close-mindedness
  • Opening the mind to possibilities
• Developing trust with the local community and government

-What are girls and women doing in the renewed communities?…43:27

• Women are the most amazing entrepreneurs
  • They take more risks on behalf of the family
• Biblically empowered worldview brings husbands and wives together
• World Vision never imposes Western norms on other cultures
  • Focused to help bring out the best norms of that culture for itself

-External academic monitoring and evaluating partners…46:19

• The University of North Carolina Water Institute monitors the water work
• TANGO did a five-year longitudinal study of World Vision’s THRIVE work in Tanzania
  • An outside Global Development Organization monitoring partner
  • Study showed incomes of farmers over a five-year span on average increased 10-fold
• TANGO is a secular organization
  • Acknowledged that World View’s biblical approach is a special sauce
• Curriculum training

-Building and maintaining the water supply…48:33

• WASH team – Wash, Sanitation, Hygiene
  • Engineers looking for a sustainable place for a well
  • The drilling apparatus comes in and starts drilling
  • Water is transferred through PVC pipes
  • Water pumps are often powered with solar energy
  • Community helps in the work
• A water committee voted by the community
  • The community pays a very nominal fee for the use of the water
  • The committee is monitoring and taking care of the water system
• Conrad N. Hilton Foundation is a massive funder of water work across the world
  • They did research – within 20 years, half of those water points were no longer working
• With World Vision, 80% are still functioning at a very high level after 20 years
  • Because the communities have ownership
  • They are very protective of that
• Partnerships across the board

-Going on trips with World Vision…57:32

• Corporate partners are developing a give-back mindset among employees and in the community
  • Some of them get the privilege of going on World View trips
• They see the complexity of creating a situation where people are enabled to live their best lives
• Awareness of what other people in the world are experiencing
• Vision trips can be a multi-generational family experience
• The last thing the developing world needs is cheap labor
• Having conversations, connecting with people, and showing them love
• Asking what their needs are

-Supplying clean water to schools and health clinics…1:03:36

• Providing clean water, sanitation, and hygiene at the school and clinic levels
  • Over 2000 health centers in the last four years
• Partnership with Sesame Street
  • Wash up program for schools
  • Teaching kids good hygiene practices

-How to connect with World Vision…1:06:32

• For $50, you can join World Vision and help 1 person get clean water for life
• Website offers a lot of information
• Corporate, government, and child sponsorship
  • $50 becomes $250

-And much more…

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Resources from this episode:

– Michael Gillespie and Randy Haacke:

• World Vision
• World Vision Global 6K for Water
• THRIVE (Transforming Household Resilience In Vulnerable Environments)
• Partnership with Sesame Street

– Books:

• He Walks Among Us: Encounters with Christ in a Broken World by Richard Stearns
• The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? by Richard Stearns
• Unfinished: Believing Is Only the Beginning by Richard Stearns

– Other Resources:

• Ben Greenfield Life Walk for Water
• TANGO
• P&G Water Purification Packets

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