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The Origin Story of the By Her Hands Podcast

The Origin Story of the By Her Hands Podcast

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 WaterStep, an organization with 31 years of experience in safe water and sanitation, is launching a new initiative called "By Her Hands." Inspired by CEO Mark Hogg's vision, this program focuses on the pivotal role women and girls play in global water solutions and community health. The "By Her Hands" podcast serves as a core component of this initiative, providing a platform for young women to share their own stories. Featuring local hosts and remote guests from Africa and Latin America, the show operates on the principle of not telling anyone's story without them. While the discussions will cover a broad range of topics including family and society, they will ultimately tie back to the essential role of water. The goal is to transform water from a daily burden into a source of empowerment and power for girls everywhere. This journey of discovery and change officially launches on March 19th across major platforms like Spotify, Amazon, and iHeart Radio. Through this podcast, listeners are encouraged to find the power they carry inside and spread it to those around them. Transcript of Discussion Jim Ray: And we are in the studios here in Louisville, Kentucky with a couple of good friends of mine from an organization called WaterStep, Kristina Gates and Justine Tou. Glad to see you all. Thanks very much for coming in. Let's talk about something that's going on at WaterStep. First of all, Kristina, if you would tell me a little bit about WaterStep. Kristina Goetz: Well, WaterStep has been around for 30 years, this is our 31st year. And we are all about safe water sanitation and hygiene. That's what we do in the world. We have one goal, Jim, and that is to bring safe water to anybody who needs it on the planet. Jim Ray: And you all are actively providing water solutions all over the African content, as well as, all over the United States. I mean, you guys are doing some really amazing stuff. I had the chance to go downtown and tour you all's facility a while back, and that's when you all let me know, Hey, there's a new initiative coming on. So Justine, tell me about this new initiative. How did it get started and what do you hope it will accomplish for us? Justine Tossou: Absolutely. So this initiative is called By Her Hands and By Her Hands is coming to life from a vision that our CO and founder Mark Hogg had. The inspiration is really around the place that women and girls have in the work that we do and the impact overall globally. And we realized that we wanted to focus on them, the place that they have, their inspiration, the hard work, the opportunities that they always bring in the work that we do around water. Jim Ray: It's amazing. As we've developed this, what you all have taught me is that a lot of times the girls are really responsible in these households for gathering the water and doing things. So that affects hygiene, that affects water, transportation back from the source back to the home. And they actually have a lot to do with that. You've also got hygiene and things like that where they're taking care of their families. And I think this "empowerment podcast" is going to be pretty exciting. With that being said, I may have let the cat out of the bag. You're launching a podcast. Tell me all about that. Justine Tossou: We are. So from the inspiration launching By Her Hands program, we realized that we also needed to hear more voices, more women voices, girls' voices that will be inspiring to others around the world, especially here in Louisville, Kentucky. Because what we do, we want it to be impacting. We want it to bring perspectives and opportunities to make change around their lives. And especially when it comes to women and girls. Jim Ray: I love this because we're going to have a couple of local hosts, some younger girls who are going to actually drive the podcast for us, but we're going to remote in some other younger girls from different countries, really anywhere from across Africa to South America, Latin America. This is going to be a pretty big vision. Wow. Justine Tossou: Absolutely. Absolutely, Jim, and I'm glad you're mentioning all the friends and the key actors that we have around the world, right? And when the team at WaterStep has been thinking and putting together this podcast we always wanted to go by, one thing is that we are not telling anybody's stories without them. And this is part of what we believe in. We live, we work, and we talk about things that matters to us with everybody around us, right, Kristina? Kristina Goetz: Yeah, absolutely. And what's exciting about this is that it's not just hearing the girls' voices, but it's giving them an opportunity to change the world. It's giving them an opportunity to help other women and girls just like them all around the world to have safe water. And you can log on to WaterStep.org to figure out how to do that. But this is one way to reach more and more people about the problems that women and girls ...
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