These stories are about special occasions where EDGE is recognized or involved.

Continuing Promise is an annual humanitarian event lasting 4 months, planned and deployed by U.S. Southern Command. Non-governmental organizations, military teams and leadership from various nations work together doing various humanitarian work in medical, veterinary, dental, and engineering projects. Ports of call are visited by groups traveling aboard the USNS Comfort or the USS Iwo Jima and located throughout the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.

The EDGE team will work off the USNS Comfort hospital ship doing health and hygiene programs, providing pure water hand washing stations for medical personnel to use in medical clinics, and hosting training events for NGO's and military personnel in our water disaster response work. Continuing Promise is from April-August, 2011.

Shoes For Water picks up donated used and new shoes year round from businesses, churches, schools, special events and shoe drives.

Once collected,the shoes are given a second life when Shoes For Water exports the donated shoes to retailers in the developing world. The resale of shoes provides jobs and affordable footware.

Funds generated from the export of shoes provides water purification systems, and hand pump repair micro businesses bringing safe, clean water to those who thirst.