About us
Local people, solving local problems
For fourteen years we've listened first, then built what villages asked for.
Why we started
It began with one well
In 2012, a group of nurses and teachers in Kisumu noticed the same thing: children were missing school because they were sick, and they were sick because the water was dirty.
So we started with one well. Today we work in 40 villages, but the idea hasn't changed: listen to the village first, build what they ask for, and train local people to run it.
Our story
Fourteen years, one village at a time
- 2012
One well in Kanyawegi
Three nurses and two teachers raise $8,000 for a first well.
- 2015
The first school programme
Teacher training begins in four primary schools.
- 2019
Mobile clinics on the road
Our first van reaches six villages a week.
- 2023
Forty villages
Water
- 2026
300 wells and counting
The 312th well opened in October.
How a project works
From village meeting to running water
- 01
The village asks
A committee tells us what they need most.
- 02
We plan together
Engineers and the committee agree the site and budget.
- 03
Local hands build
Builders from the area are hired and paid fairly.
- 04
They own it
Two people are trained to repair it, with a fund to pay for parts.
Meet the people behind the work
Our staff, board and volunteers, most of them from the villages we serve.
