Borehole drilling & rehabilitation
Hydrogeological survey, drilling, solar pumping and a five-year maintenance contract with a locally trained mechanic. Average cost per village: 18,400 USD.
Water & Sanitation
A fifteen-minute walk to clean water.
A girl who walks four hours a day to fetch water is a girl who is not in school. Our WASH programme drills boreholes, installs rainwater harvesting at schools, and builds gender-separated latrine blocks with menstrual-health facilities — co-designed with the village water committee that will run them for the next twenty years.
312
Villages with new water access
184
School latrine blocks built
62%
Reduction in waterborne illness
100%
Of projects community-owned
How the programme works on the ground.
School WASH blocks
Gender-separated latrines, hand-washing stations and a private menstrual-health room — the single biggest driver of girls' attendance through puberty.
Village water committees
A nine-member committee, gender-balanced by charter, owns the borehole. We provide eighteen months of training, a tariff toolkit and a regional spare-parts supply chain.
Field story
"Before the borehole I walked from four in the morning. I missed half of standard six. My younger sister has not missed a day of school in two years. She will sit her secondary exams."
— Halima Yusuf, age 20 · Marsabit County, Kenya
Where this runs today
- Kenya
- Uganda
- Tanzania
- Ethiopia
- Malawi
- Mozambique
- Zambia
- Ghana
- Senegal
- Burkina Faso
Related programmes
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A monthly partnership keeps this programme running in fourteen African countries.