aQua for All Foundation provides clean, safe drinking water to children — in children's homes and shelters in Greece, the United States, and communities in need.
We do not simply hand over equipment. We fund reliable systems, work with local water-treatment specialists to install them, and stay involved so they keep working years later.
Even in developed countries, drinking water now carries threats that older treatment was never designed for. Children are the most exposed, because they drink more water for their body weight than adults do.
Growing bodies deserve particular care when it comes to everyday environmental exposure.
Water quality matters especially during pregnancy and the earliest years of childhood.
Those living in shelters, children's homes or supported housing rarely control the water available to them.
Every project begins with the people and the place.
With local experts who know the water and the building.
Fitted by qualified local water-treatment specialists.
Laboratory testing confirms what comes out of the tap.
Filters are replaced and systems serviced, year after year.
A filter nobody maintains quietly stops protecting anyone. That is why we will not install one we cannot keep.
Children in three SOS programmes drink water from purification systems the Foundation has provided — in Crete, in Vari outside Athens, and at an SOS children's home. Every system is serviced on a regular schedule.
We work with local water-treatment companies to build and install every system. In Greece, our partner is NearonYdor.
The water has been tested by Greek laboratories, including the University of Athens and the Hellenic Pasteur Institute.
They buy bottled water, case after case, week after week — for children who should simply be able to fill a glass from the tap.
This village has no system at all. They buy bottled water, case after case, week after week, for children who should simply be able to fill a glass from the tap. They have asked us for help.
Photographs supplied by SOS Children's Villages Greece and used with their permission. We have no photograph of the Plagiari village yet.
A village is not one machine. It takes three to five systems to reach the kitchens and the family houses where the children actually live — and the equipment is the smaller part. The real cost, year after year, is the servicing.
The Foundation was founded in 2020 as Aqua Africa Foundation — named for Lagos, the West African port where a ten-year-old first understood what water is worth. It was renamed aQua for All in 2021, but the IRS record still carries the original name.
So if you look us up, that is the name you will find. Nothing is hidden behind it — here is everything you need to check for yourself.
He set the Foundation up in 2020, keeping a promise made to his father — a ship’s captain — after a voyage that ran out of drinking water four days from port. Read the story →
The need for water children can trust did not stay in Greece, and neither will we. We are working with SOS Children's Villages in the United States, beginning in Florida, and talking to children's homes and shelters closer to home in New Jersey.
Every donation goes to the Foundation's mission: funding systems where they are needed, and — just as importantly — keeping them serviced so they never quietly stop working.
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To two things: funding purification systems where they are needed, and keeping them serviced so they never quietly stop working. A village is not one machine — it takes three to five systems to reach the kitchens and the family houses where the children actually live, and the equipment is the smaller part. The real cost, year after year, is the servicing.
Every gift receives a written acknowledgement and is tax-deductible in the United States to the extent allowed by law.
Children in three SOS Children’s Villages programmes in Greece drink water from purification systems the Foundation has provided — in Crete, in Vari outside Athens, and at an SOS children’s home. A fourth village, SOS Plagiari near Thessaloniki, still buys bottled water case after case and has asked us for help.
The next project is in the United States, beginning in Florida with SOS Children’s Villages, and we are talking to children’s homes and shelters in New Jersey.
The Foundation funds and provides the systems. They are built and installed by qualified local water-treatment companies — in Greece, our partner is NearonYdor — and serviced on a regular schedule, with filters replaced year after year.
A filter nobody maintains quietly stops protecting anyone. That is why we will not install one we cannot keep.
Because it is tested in a laboratory, not assumed. In Greece the water has been tested by Greek laboratories including the University of Athens and the Hellenic Pasteur Institute — testing what comes out of the tap, which is the only measurement that matters.
Yes. It is a 501(c)(3) public charity in the United States, registered since March 2020, federal EIN 84-2236945, and it holds the Candid Gold Seal of Transparency for 2026. It appears on the IRS list under its original legal name, Aqua Africa Foundation Non Profit Co — the Foundation was set up in 2020 as Aqua Africa and renamed aQua for All in 2021.
Yiannis Vogiatzoglou, President and founder. He set it up in 2020, keeping a promise made to his father, Captain Michael Vogiatzoglou, after a voyage on which their ship ran out of drinking water four days from the nearest port.
By sponsoring a village — the systems and the upkeep that keeps them working. Write to info@aqua4all.org and we will tell you exactly what a village needs and what it costs to keep running.
Please do. Write to info@aqua4all.org with the home or shelter and where it is. Every project we have done began with somebody telling us about a place.
