Netherlands

Sára Bori’s work is shaped by an early, lived understanding of how water systems touch everyday life. In the Netherlands, through a grandfather who settled in the 1980s in a town newly carved from the sea, and an aunt who made her home on a boat. In rural Hungary, her family relied on self‑supply, so during her childhood years she had to get drinking water from her grandmother’s piped town connection because the water at home was unsafe to drink.

The end of traditional aid is not a crisis for Riva. We’ve been moving towards this moment for more than a decade, and Bryony Stentiford is one of the reasons we’re ready. Bryony has spent ten years building the partnerships and funding relationships that have allowed us to move beyond our previous NGO role, to become something more compelling in services and approach to nation builders, notably government.