A Water for All sponsored well drilling “club” in the isolated village of San Miguelito, Bolivia. After drilling their first family well to a depth of 179 ft., the club drilled 10 more wells and paid for their own well materials. WFA lent a drilling rig and provided training. The man in the white cap started his own artisan rural water well business and has since drilled many dozens of wells.

A family victimized
by the tsunami
gets a WFA personal family well and pump
made using family
labor for under $40
material cost.
Baticaloa, Sri Lanka.

 For the reasons listed in Water for All International page ,Water for All’s aim is to work directly with the rural poor within their local communities to empower families and communities to drill their own water wells. As Christians, we fellowship, whenever possible, with the local Believers and churches in the communities in which we work. We also share the Gospel when it is fitting in culturally appropriate and sensitive ways. This helps WFA know the people we serve from the “inside out” and love people from the “bottom up.”

 We have found a direct hand in hand method of working with families is the most effective way
to actually empower the poor to permanently solve water and food problems. We offer direct
training to poor families and communities free of cost. We have done this extensively in
Bolivia, and have also trained partners to do this in Nicaragua. WFA is now drilling trial wells
with partners in Ethiopia and is in the process of opening a WFA long term program in that
country.

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