VAVV Founder Jacob Niemeier returned to EWTN’s Life on the Rock for a special two-part segment with Fr. Mark Mary. In the interview, Jacob shares how faith, engineering, and mission converge in VAVV’s work to bring sustainable clean water to communities in need. Watch the full conversation and see how True Water, True Life is reaching a national audience.

Discover Jacob Niemeier's extraordinary journey from witnessing the dire water crisis in Haiti to founding Vera Aqua Vera Vita, a nonprofit organization transforming lives by providing clean water to communities in need. Read his inspiring story of perseverance, passion, and making a difference in the world.

In just under three months, the time will arrive for Vera Aqua Vera Vita’s Mission team to embark on their annual journey to educate, empower and connect with the people in rural Peru. The lessons our Missionaries share are vital to helping the community stay healthy, by mitigating the impacts of consumption of contaminated water sources and and so they can preserve the cleanliness of the water that will flow from the engineered clean water system VAVV will bring to fullfilment in collaboration with the people soon. 

Peru Projects and Programs Director, Ricardo Arbulu Guerra shared his personal story as well as the most recent developments of Vera Aqua Vera Vita’s mission for Voyage Dallas Magazine’s “Hidden Gems.”

This past March was a very special month for Vera Aqua Vera Vita; for the first time since 2019, VAVV got to send a team of missionaries from DFW into the rural communities of Piura, Peru to bring True Water True Life through service, education and camaraderie! See what progress having so many boots on the ground has made by reading this Project Status Update.