22 March 2012
Water and Food Security

Updated - Thursday 18 March 2010

LIVE Webinar with Doc Hendley / Wine to Water

Wine to Water
New York, Global/Internet, 22 Mar 10

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See Agency and The Speakers Group are pleased to bring you a World Water Day 2010 Special LIVE Webinar with 2009 CNN Hero Doc Hendley – bartender, musician, humanitarian, and President/Founder of Wine To Water.

Doc Hendley calls himself proof that anyone, even a tattooed keg-tapper, can cure what ails the world.

Wine to Water, along with its 30-year-old founder, has dug, repaired and sanitized drinking wells for 25,000 people in five Third World countries.

Doc did not dream of dedicating his life to humanitarian efforts in developing countries.

"When the idea came to me to start Wine to Water, the only real-world job experience I had was tending bar. So I started raising money to fight this water epidemic the best way I knew how - by pouring wine and playing music."

Hendley has taken immense personal risks, working in dozens of refugee camps installing water systems for victims of Darfur’s government supported genocide. Often inside the UN's dangerous "no-go" zones, he distributed water or chlorine tablets to people with only plastic sheeting for shelter.

Doc has worked to provide clean water and sanitation in many countries including Sudan, India, Cambodia, Uganda, Ethiopia, and most recently in Haiti.

In November 2009, Doc Hendley was named a 2009 CNN Hero, chosen from over 9,000 applicants by a panel of judges including Gen. Colin Powell, Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Turner and Sir Elton John.

Last month CNN covered Doc's relief work on the ground in Haiti on AC360 with Anderson Cooper: "CNN HEROES: SAVING HAITI".

Not bad for a Harley-riding bartender with a communications degree and a tip jar.

Contact: Shawn Ellis