UPDATE: This need has become particularly important in areas where thousands of refugees are settling after fleeing violence. This has become a recent concern for us. This is particularly true now with covid-19, and the need for hand-washing. How do you wash your hands if there is no water...? Thank you for your help.

A clean water supply is vital for life. When a village has no clean water supply, people will drink from dirty pools, walk miles to find a pump, or go without. The results are diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases, as well as exhaustion and dehydration. Of deaths that occur from unsafe water and unhygienic living conditions, 90% are in children under five years old.In Burkina they say: “L’eau, c’est la Vie!” – “Water is Life!”

Well-Repair

We prioritise repairing broken-down wells. APT has trained local workers in well-repair. They repair broken-down pumps in villages in the north of Burkina, restoring a clean water supply for the fraction of the cost of a new well. It costs about £200 to repair a broken-down well, and we need about £4,000/year for current work. 

New Wells

As funds allow, we also drill new wells in villages with no clean water supply. 

A new well and pump would normally cost about £5,000. But with the current situation, the price is higher to cover security for the drillers

Thank you for any help you can give.