We started with water for one school in 2011. The first borewell. In 2015 we met GroundWater, an NGO that shared our philosophy of partnering with rural schools, led by Benjamin Koyoo. We formed a partnership. They became WellBoring GroundWater. A perfect fit.
We set out to get safe water to 100 schools. We did it. Then 500 schools. We’ve done it. Well over half a million lives transformed. We’re now aiming to get safe water to a million people. School enrolment, attendance and results go up. Villagers’ sickness is reduced. Water-borne diseases like cholera and typhoid are mostly eliminated. Visits to health practitioners fall by half. Villagers don’t have to buy medicines for water-borne diseases, boosting incomes and reducing costs, alleviating poverty too. It all flows from water.
We are a leading provider of water to rural primary schools in many Kenyan counties. We are also active in the Gambia, thanks to the late Dr Karamo Sonko, and in Ghana, Malawi and Sierra Leone. Thanks to our funders, our volunteers, and our operational teams in Africa, we are changing the world, one well at a time.
Nigel Linacre BEM, Founder and Director of WellBoring
THE WELLBORING WAY: SAFE WATER AT RURAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS
We install new wells and rehabilitate broken wells in primary schools and communities in rural Kenya and beyond. We enable children and villagers to access safe water while promoting good hygiene. Over 90% of your donations to our UK, USA, and Germany charities fund water wells in Africa. By contributing, you directly address the water problem, providing children and their families with a brighter, healthier future with safe water access from early childhood on.
SAFE WATER IS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
A million people die from water-related diseases every year, mostly children. Many more get cholera, dysentery and typhoid. Our safe water halve the visits to Community Health Practitioners and typically eliminate these diseases.
Fetching dirty water is itself perilous, risking attacks from predators, and the water they are sent to collect from rivers is itself unsafe. As they grow, girls miss up to 5 days of school per month during menstruation – additional days are lost to water collection.
By building wells in primary schools, typically with nurseries attached, we get safe water to many of those who are more vulnerable to water-borne diseases.
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UNLEASHING THE TRUE POTENTIAL
Our Kenyan borewells are 40-80 m deep and provide safe water for an average of 1,200 people for decades. Many wells installed by others have stopped working due to a lack of maintenance and repairs. Our maintenance strategy, collaboration with schools, and co-development with communities ensure consistent operation, keeping the wells running.
The UK-funded Hidden Crisis a project estimated 30-40% of water points being non-functional We are bringing broken wells back to life, and maintaining them so this problem is reduced and more people get safe water.
FORMING PARTNERSHIPS
We work in partnership with Primary Schools who contribute labour to the installation process, provide food for our specialist drilling team, and commit to funding ongoing servicing of wells. This partnership keeps our wells going for years and even decades.
Unfortunately, it is not enough to install a well and walk away. Even training local people to service a well may not work in the long-run, simply as people move on with their lives.
Our partnership model is best-placed to provide long well life, and enable longer lives.
Goal:
GBP
7,300.00
Ralang Primary School
700 children, up to 50% absenteeism. Latrines that collapse.
Thanks, Wavemakers - Mission accomplished! ✨
Goal:
GBP
7,300.00
Kodida Primary School
Support 409 Kodida kids; 162 girls miss school due to fetching dirty water.
Thanks, Wavemakers - Mission accomplished! ✨
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WATER FOR EDUCATION, HEALTH AND LOWERING POVERTY
Our wells increase school enrolment, attendance and results, and reduce sickness. Visits to health points fall by half when safe water arrives. Local people can work more, increasing their income, and don’t have to spend on medicines for water-borne diseases. You can help this happen more by supporting WellBoring.
Your donation helps to change everything
- Diseases will be reduced
- Children learn safely and well
- Girls have opportunities
- Women are empowered
- Families are healthy and survive
- Reduced carbon emissions
- Hunger and poverty alleviated