Meet Robert Fiveson
Robert Fiveson – has field-produced documentaries in over 20 different countries and several active war zones as well as covertly behind the Iron Curtain. He was the former Head of Production for the US Department of Defense Media Center & USAF Air Combat Camera for 6 years, Executive Producer Futura Productions for four years, was a Staff Producer at Universal Studios, Exec In Charge Of Production for The Global Library Project Directorate at The Library Of Congress Washington DC and Head of Entertainment for Jones Entertainment Washington DC, as well as his own company Fiveson Entertainment. He has garnered a significant number of industry awards for his shows, including a dozen Telly’s – and has been a frequent panelist and judge at industry events and festivals.
He received an MFA in Cinema from USC Film School and currently lives in Panama.
Robert’s Review in “Great Nonprofits”
I have known Joe Bass for over 30 years. The effort, caring, intelligence and energy he and his wife Maribel devote to OSDW and the needs of the community are beyond the comprehension of most.
To abandon the comfort, safety, and ‘luxuries’ of what we all take for granted — in order to serve others– in order to save lives one precious drop of water at a time — exceeds what even the most caring of us can imagine.
I have been to their home in the jungle, I have known the children they try to help – the families and the schools. To see people who have literally no hope, no resources, face deprivation and sickness while around them tourists frolic is blinding in its anguish. To look into the eyes of a mother who knows her child may die for lack of even a drop of clean drinking water is not humbling — its paralyzing.
Joe and Maribel struggle every day — every moment — trying to make a difference. They are not going out to restaurants, they are not sitting around the TV at night, they are not shooting around the corner for a latte or to pick up the dry cleaning….. they’re just plodding along – committed to try and raise enough in donations to put some gas in their motor and float another water catchment tank to a family school or community in the middle of nowhere.
Many often say — ‘Oh sure but how do I know what I send actually gets to the people I intend to help?! — a fair and legitimate concern – I have been there, I have watched what they do, I have seen how they do it…. they don’t take a dime – they apply the dime so that others can benefit.
There is a special place in heaven for people like this and I for one am proud to know them, proud to help in whatever way I may and offer my most profound endorsement of the efforts of this legitimate and effective — Operation Safe Drinking Water.
If the indigenous people of the most forgotten area of Panama could do so they would agree…. in that regard I write on all their behalf.
Thanks, Robert. Here are our other “best moments” of 2010.
Joe –
When the anti-diarrhea medicines we were asked for
went untouched. The school kids no longer needed them.
They were healthy due to safe water.
Maribel –
When absenteeism from sickness
at Bahia Grande school dropped to
almost nothing after they had
clean water.
We’ve installed 56 rain catchment systems at indigenous schools and villages.
More are added almost weekly.
Click here to see where they’re at
We Partner with Mother Nature
Our fifty-six rain-catchment tanks provide safe drinking water
for thousands of indigenous children and villagers
without clean water.
Join the Partnership!
$20 will provide safe drinking water for 20 families
$100 will provide years of safe water for 50 families
$900 will provide a complete rain catchment system for an indigenous school
or village.
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Operation Safe Drinking Water is a 501 (c)(3) charity.
We’re all volunteers. No one receives a salary or compensation.
We live out among the people we serve
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