partnering with WFA

WITH WHOM DOES WATER FOR ALL FORM COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS?

As stated, WFA works directly with poor families within their communities to empower them to drill their own water wells free of charge. However given the right circumstances WFA is willing to collaborate and form partnerships with other groups or individuals who share a similar desire to help poor rural families to learn to drill their own water wells and/or to use more productive farming methods. Water for All can provide training and program design for groups wanting to help families in both endeavors.

In order to collaborate, these partners must have a long term ongoing, positive, direct
relationship with poor families and communities that need help. Our desire is to cooperate with organizations who work at grass roots levels. We have found that empowering rural people can lead to hundreds or even thousands of wells in a given area at a very low cost. Eventually this type of program can become self-sustaining.

If you or your organization would like to pursue a true empowerment program to teach local
families to drill their own water wells. Please visit our web site where you will find contact
information. http://www.geocities.com/h2oclubs/ or see Contact Us

A Model WFA Partnership Collaboration.

Phase 1.
Feasibility study and trials. Duration: one, two, or three months.
In this phase a WFA associate or intern travels to the target area and, in conjunction with a local partner, designs and builds a WFA drilling rig and prototype pump, using locally availablematerials. This is to insure that needed tools and supplies can be reproduced and obtained locally at reasonable prices.

Using hired workers provided by the WFA partner, test wells are drilled and prototype pumps
installed. To insure that the technology is practicable usually takes one to three months and
requires a full time, dedicated employee of the partnering organization to host and be with usrecommendation to whether or not to go to a phase 2. During this phase, and in cooperation with the partner, a host program manager is identified, interviewed and hired to eventually become the director of an ongoing long term well drilling program.

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through the entire process. After this first phase WFA will make a

Phase 2.

Host Program Manger Training and Beginning of Family Training; Definition
of Tools, Techniques, and Budgets. Duration: one, two or three months.
In this phase WFA thoroughly trains the host program manager to be a competent, master well
driller who will, in the future, direct the training of families and communities. This would be
done in conjunction with continued feasibility drilling trials to more completely define final tool
and pump designs suitable for the target area. Long term program budget needs for continuing
family and community training will be more clearly established during this phase.
Most importantly in this phase WFA will work with the local program manager to design a
culturally appropriate extension plan to organize, train and equip families and communities to
drill their own wells. WFA’s final goal is to see a local partner’s self-sustaining well drilling
program up and running.

Phase 3.

Ongoing training. Duration-Multiple year Training and Catalytic Presence.
In this phase there would be an ongoing program where the WFA host program manager
continually organizes and trains local families to drill wells. The WFA partner will need to do
constant follow up and be available as a resource to families and groups involved in the various
processes of drilling. The local partner and manager need to be committed to offering
encouragement, troubleshooting and problem solving for a multi-year period. WFA would visit
as necessary for follow up and be available on-line to help solve unexpected problems.

If you or your organization would like to empower local families that you work with to drill their own water wells through a long term empowerment program with WFA please contact.
Terry Waller terry@southlandbaptist.org or see
http://www.geocities.com/h2oclubs/

Minimum Guidelines for full Partner Collaborations with Water for All

Given our experience, we have found that the following are essential for the success of a program that will eventually become self-sustaining.

1. WFA partners must have a planned, local, long term presence where poor people live,
have a positive relationship with the local rural community and a commitment to train local families to drill wells.

2. WFA partners need to be willing to hire a manager whose only job would be to
implement a multi-year low cost water well drilling empowerment program. This manager
needs to be a local cultural insider who has both program managerial skills and decision
making power. He must be willing to get dirty and have a desire to work hand in hand to
teach the poor to complete their own water wells. He must be teachable, creative, a problem solver and self starter. This is, obviously, a special person and a key to the success of the program.

3. WFA partners usually need to have financial resources to provide for all local program
expenses and logistical needs and also take care of expenses for housing, transport, food etc. for WFA field representatives while working with the partner.

4. WFA partners need to see WFA as full partners and commit to long term reporting to
WFA as to project outcomes, both good and bad. These would include bi-annual summary
reports with photos and reports of the number of wells drilled with data as to depth,
completions, secondary benefits for families, etc.

5. WFA partners would also need to recognize WFA publicly in press releases and other
communications to donors or government agencies as partners and the originators of the
technologies and practices used.

6. WFA partners would need to agree to allow WFA to utilize the partnerships program area as a venue for WFA to train international volunteers and interns or others when such would not harm the nature of the partner’s program.

7. WFA partners would need to recognize WFA ownership of technologies and any manuals or drawings produced via the partnership and not reproduce them without WFA permission.

8. WFA partners would need to agree to recognize WFA with ten percent royalty payments
on the retail price of commercial activities if the WFA partnership activities results in
commercial (apart from the local artisan) income generating activities of $1000 U.S. per year or more by the partner or partner associates. This would include any commercial well
drilling, tool building, or training activities using WFA techniques or tools beyond a local
village artisan level. (Our intent is to help the poor. It is ok to make a profit if necessary,
just remember WFA if you learned it from us.)

9. Be willing to have a blast getting dirty empowering poor people to make water wells!!!
WFA Non Partnership, Demonstration, Consultations, Feasibility Studies, and
Introductory Training. WFA can sometimes offer non partner, consulting, feasibility demonstrations and introductory training to individuals, NGO’s, non profit organizations, governmental organizations, church groups, or business ventures.

To pay for our time and expense and to help fund our other ministry activities, we will offer
these as we are able, on a sliding scale fee, based upon the organizations ability to pay.

To become a competent driller with our technique requires a substantial commitment. It usually takes a month of more training and the drilling of many wells just to get started!

Superficial training or participating in the drilling of one or two wells or a quick demonstration will give a good idea of the technical process but won’t allow for very much competency. With this level of experience there is a high probability that one might fail and thus send unfortunate messages to local poor people. (But a lot of people need water, sooo …. If you want to get dirty and try to help the poor have more water, go for it!!!! And God bless you for your effort! If you make a well, great!! Let us know! If not, that is ok too, let us know! And come to us for more training, or better yet, make a partnership arrangement with us).

We do however ask that any groups or persons that participate in WFA training activities of any kind agree to the following minimum conditions (regardless of who financially sponsors WFA training or demonstrations.)

1. Maintain contact with WFA via email if WFA technologies or practices are used or
attempted, and inform WFA of outcomes, either positive or negative. (Stay in touch, we
want to learn from you too!)

2. If WFA technologies or practices are attempted and used, WFA will be recognized
publicly as the originators of the technologies and interested parties will be referred to us
for more information concerning the technologies or practices. (Let folks know where
you learned it!)

3. Send photos and well data via email of any wells made or tools made or used as a result WFA training. (You get the credit but it will help us with our sponsors!)

4. Send overview of program and context where WFA tools or practices are being used or
tried. (Tell us all about it!)

5. If any commercial activities carried out using WFA technologies (beyond village artisan
level) please recognize WFA with a 10 % royalty payment of retail prices charged pf
$1000 per year or more. (Again, our goal is to serve the poor but if you make a profit off
of our technology remember us too!) Remember to have fun getting filthy while helping
the poor get water!!!

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Training Families to drill their own low cost water wells