Whitefish woman helps provide clean water in Africa
The Executive Director of Freshwater Project International, Whitefish's Heidi Rickels is battling to help the citizens of Malawi gain access to clean water. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Whitefish’s Heidi Rickels has never been to Malawi, but she has been helping people in the small southeastern African country gain access to clean water for a decade.
Since 2011, Rickels and her Freshwater Project International have been helping Malawi’s villages, schools and health care facilities fight waterborne diseases by drilling and maintaining wells, as well as installing entire water systems...
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