WHY WE’RE UNIQUE

We continue working with a village for 15-20 years, after a well is drilled

  • Educate villagers on good sanitation & proper hygiene
    • How to keep utensils clean & protect the water from contamination
    • Why its important to wash their hands and when it is most critical to do that
    • How to keep the faces of children clean to prevent trachoma
  • Install latrines & encourage usage

We provide micro-financing to women to start small businesses

  • Enables them to contribute to the economic welfare of their families
  • They raise goats, chickens, make peanut oil, millet cakes, soap & more
  • Feel pride and a sense of accomplishment
  • Are role models for their daughters

Your gift multiplies 5x in impact  

Here’s how it works:

  • $5,600 What we pay for 1 well
  • $5,600 Matched by our partner, World Vision, ($11,200, total cost of a well, 250′-300′ deep)
  • $18,000 Other World Vision money–given over 15-20 years as they continue to help improve quality of life for villagers

    $29,200 Total value of services delivered to a village

Note: Our price per well, effective 2011,  has dropped $500, from $6,100 to $5,600 due to economies of scale.

All water projects are fully sustainable

  • Sustainability, the most critical issue regarding the drilling of wells in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Villagers taught how to maintain the well & set up a maintenance fund–they take ownership of it
  • Before a well is drilled, a committee is formed to administer the well, with the government mandating that half of them be women
  • From the International Water and Sanitation Centre, The Netherlands: 1/3 of all hand pumps installed in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past 20 years, have failed prematurely compared to only 8.5% of the World Vision wells drilled in Ghana from October 1995 – March 2003

Being partnered with World Vision guarantees us the highest and most consistent quality work in well drilling and maintenance

  • Highly experienced in West Africa, having started in Ghana in 1985
  • Have a professional staff of full-time water engineers, experts in well drilling
  • Staff of locals are role models, giving parents hope for the future of their children