Fund a new water well for £2,000, a deep borehole drilled 50 to 110 metres to reach a clean, protected aquifer, or restore an existing well for £750. Every well comes with a permanent plaque at the site carrying your chosen name or that of a loved one, and a full completion report once it is built.
Across sub-Saharan Africa, more than 400 million people lack access to safe drinking water. Women and girls walk up to six hours every day to collect water from rivers, ponds and other sources contaminated with disease-causing bacteria. One clean water well changes all of that, and its benefits last for years to come.
Humanity First UK is a registered charity in England and Wales (1188494), regulated by the Charity Commission, and registered with the Fundraising Regulator. Every year we publish our full accounts in our annual reports, so you can see for yourself how donations are spent.
Water for Life has been a flagship Humanity First programme for more than twenty years, delivered and managed directly by our own field teams. They survey each site, oversee the drilling and hand the finished well to the community, then keep it monitored for years afterwards.
The numbers alongside show what that work adds up to. Clean water has reached communities across Africa and Asia, well after well, each one built to keep flowing for years after it is handed to the community.
Our water wells are drilled using professional rotary rigs and cased with high-grade PVC or galvanised steel. Each installation is overseen by a qualified hydrogeologist and handed over to the community it serves.
Our boreholes penetrate deep aquifers to reach clean, year-round groundwater unaffected by surface contamination.
Depending on location and weather, survey, logistics and handover bring full completion to 6 to 9 months.
Built with high-grade galvanised steel casing and stainless steel pump parts, backed by ongoing monitoring.
Each well serves a community of 500 to 1,000 people per day, depending on borehole yield and local population size.
Our Water for Life teams build wells throughout the year across multiple African countries. Here is the journey your donation takes, from the moment you give to the day clean water starts to flow. We aim to complete this journey, from your donation to a finished and inaugurated well, within 6 to 9 months, though timelines can vary with location, ground conditions and access.
Every new well is logged in our central database and assigned to the next country batch, so your donation is allocated to a specific build.
Each well is given a unique ID recording its destination country and year of construction, so it can be traced from start to finish.
Once a batch is complete, every well is formally inaugurated and a permanent plaque, bearing any inscription you chose, is installed at the site.
You receive photographs of the finished well and its plaque, the exact GPS coordinates of the pump, and the estimated number of people it will serve.
Some communities need more than a single well. We design and build custom water projects to match the conditions on the ground, from solar-powered, high-yield boreholes with larger storage for bigger communities, to schemes that support community gardens and agriculture alongside everyday drinking water.
Custom projects typically range from £3,000 to £5,000, depending on the requirement. If you have a particular community or project in mind, our team would be glad to talk it through with you.
Write to our Water for Life team and we will help you scope your project.
[email protected]You can email our dedicated Water for Life team and we will be glad to help.
