Doc Hendley

Categories: Entrepreneurship & SME | Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility 

Travels from Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

Nombrado como uno de los 10 mejores héroes de CNN de 2009, Doc Hendley, appointed CNN Hero in 2019, is the inspiring founder of Wine to Water, an organization dedicated to bring clean water around the world. 

Doc Hendley is a CNN Hero and President and founder of the organization Wine to Water. He brings his knowledge of civil and human rights, global affairs and empowerment to his inspirational presentations.

The original concept of Wine to Water came from Doc Hendley’s experiences tending bars and playing music in nightclubs in Raleigh, North Carolina. Wanting to raise money to fight water related death and disease in a new way, he started to hold fundraisers that gave his patrons the chance to have a good time for a good cause.

Soon after coming up with the concept, Doc Hendley was living in Darfur, Sudan, installing water systems for refugees from the government-supported genocide. Putting himself in grave danger (two of his team were killed during his year there), Hendley returned home more determined than ever to ensure clean water is available wherever it is needed around the world.

After much hard work and self-sacrifice, Doc Hendley finally achieved his dream, and Wine to Water is now an official charity running projects in nine different countries worldwide. Thousands of lives are now being saved every year by the provision of clean drinking water, the most basic human need and right.

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