Rotary Foundation Project in Ghana - How clean water, sanitation and education brings hope.

He was recognized as a White House Champion of Change. Walter earned Rotary’s Vocational Service Leadership Award & Rotary Foundation’s Citation for Meritorious Service. Walter’s team passionately provides clean water and sanitation to over 809,000 people in Africa.  He is working to build nine schools in Ghana. He partners with two hundred seventy-four Rotary Clubs in sixty Rotary districts in fifteen countries. 

Partnering Rotarians live in Québec, Ontario and British Columbia in Canada, Mexico, Australia, Switzerland, Taiwan, India, the Caribbean islands, Ghana, South Sudan, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, South Africa, Peru and twenty-six U.S. states.  He also partners with non-profit organizations, churches and individuals. Personal items are at Smithsonian Museum collections.  His work is also highlighted at RI Conventions.

Walter championed Rotary projects over the past fourteen years to locate wells in communities with the highest incidence of Guinea worm disease in Ghana and South Sudan.  The World Health Organization certified Ghana as free of Guinea worm disease in 2014. He traveled to South Sudan in 2013 and again during the civil war in November 2015 to inspect Rotary’s clean water project. Rotary is close to eradicating both Guinea worm disease and polio. 

He worked as the Director of Strategic Technology at America Online.  Walter was the pastor at New Hope United Methodist Church.  He is now an independent missionary.  He also helped to build over ten churches in Ghana and Uganda.  He baptized over 1,000 people.  He is married to Lisa.  He has four children and a grandson.  Walter goes to Ghana where he sees clean water flowing, sanitation with new Microflush toilets, new medical equipment at hospitals and computer labs at schools.  He is empowering communities to dream and to lead.  We are transforming lives with micro-credit loans for wells, toilets, farms and businesses.