Team 5 Medical Foundation and Veterans Without Orders Announce Strategic Partnership.
The new "Water and Wellness" initiative will address both the causes and consequences of the world water crisis.
Veterans Without Orders (VWO), a nonprofit focused on combatting the world water crisis, and Team 5 Medical Foundation, a nonprofit that provides medical care to the most overlooked areas of the world, will merge capabilities for their "Water and Wellness" initiative.
Every year, 1.5 billion people suffer from water-borne diseases and 3.4 million – mostly children – die as a result, making it the leading cause of disease and death worldwide.
Serving as the "tip-of-the-spear" for addressing clean-water issues, VWO mission teams provide clean-water filters and sanitation training to women and children in the communities they visit.
"Our focus on clean water filtration has always been to provide the most immediate and easy-to-implement remedy to bring a community back to health," said Wilson Suarez, a Civil Affairs veteran who has joined several clean water missions with Veterans Without Orders.
"This partnership will be transformational in what we’re able to accomplish on our clean water missions, both short-term through on-the-ground medical care and long-term through the education and training we provide."
The "Water and Wellness" mission team will deliver clean water filters, medical aid, training and education to remote villages only accessible by foot and canoe.
Looking forward, upcoming Team 5 medical missions will be supplemented by a VWO volunteer delivering clean water filters and sanitation training.
To learn more about Team 5, visit: http://www.team-5.org https://www.facebook.com/Team5Foundation/ About Veterans Without Orders Veterans Without Orders is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to leverage a worldwide network of skilled Civil Affairs veterans to address the world water crisis.