It’s hard to believe that more often than not, clean safe drinking water a developing community desperately needs is right underneath them. And it’s amazing how when few people come together can make such a dramatic difference in so many lives. That’s why we partner with small groupings and schools to bring safe drinking water in rural communities across East Africa.
Below, you’ll find information on the types of water wells we have built and a brief description of the process.
OUR APPROACH
At Wellboring GroundWater , we roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty. Our model can be described as bottom –up providing a local solution to a global problem. Our projects utilize local materials, local labor and ingenuity and ownership is transferred to the communities upon completion. More importantly, we focus on optimizing sustainability of our water projects by forming long-lasting, collaborative relationships with communities. We do not build water systems in isolation. Instead we work with communities to co-create programs that are appropriate for them and the environment in which they live. Learn more about our approach.
| Project Identification | Community Engagement | Constructions ^ Education |
| Wellboring GroundWater work closely with local county authorities – community development assistants, ministry of public health, education and water to identify schools and villages in the dire need. Through word of mouth, referrals and public barazas, Often times, neighboring schools and villages learn about our work in the region and appeals to us. | Community engagements are at the heart of Wellboring GroundWater developments philosophy. This not only enable us to gain deeper understanding of the villages and schools needs but help implement home grown solutions, This means walking with locals, eating with them and even living in their midst. | We work hand in hand with schools’ leadership and involves them at every stage of the project, from planning, drilling, constructions, maintenance’s and monitoring. We ask each village/school to provide at least 10% of total project costs in local available resources {sand, gravel, murram etc} and labor. |
| Capacity Building | Monitoring | Impacts |
| With the goal of each project becoming community owned, we set up water users committee, train pump mechanics and equip them with the skills and tools to handle system maintenance’s and repairs | Working with the project beneficiaries, water management committee, we exhaustively monitor projects after every three months upon handing over the project and share the monitoring results to our partners, project beneficiaries and online sector ministries. | Since we began operations, we have had 100% functionality rate and vow to maintain a track record of project success. We take critical steps to ensure sustainability and leave a lasting impact on every community we serve. |
We are borehole drilling social enterprise that specializes in drilling boreholes in the toughest of environments. Wellboring Groundwater operates three water drill rigs namely PRD 650 drill, and two Ls 200 portable drill rigs. The PRD 650 is a robust DTH cum ROTARY combination rig that goes to depths of 180 meters, while Ls 200 are cost effective potable mud rotary drill rig that can be moved through any terrain and drills to a maximum depth of 60 meters. The rigs are suitable for various geological formation including consolidated laterite, highly collapsible alluvial formations and fractured granite. Please check our gallery to see some of our completed projects.
SHHE programs works to jumpstart or develop health clubs in primary schools. Of the schools that do have little health Clubs, the majority are not effective. In order to increase participation in hygiene education activities at the primary school level, we train pupils “little doctors” who can play an active role in their schools.
Pupils in the Little health Clubs will be trained in washing their hands with soap; promoting messages about hygiene practices; supervising and helping their classmates with hygiene practices; and assisting their teachers with these activities as necessary. The pupils may also help by cleaning school toilets, classrooms, and the general premises at least once per week. Little doctors may also remind their classmates of how to properly wash their hands with soap and water during a weekly assembly
We construct, lined ventilated improved pit latrine (LVIP); which is a pit latrine with a vent pipe fitted to the pit and a screen (flyscreen) at the top outlet of the pipe and the pit lined with trapezium blocks to support the walls. VIP latrines are an improvement to overcome the disadvantages of simple pit latrines, e.g. fly and mosquito nuisance and unpleasant odors, as a simple solution to the open defecation and improving the simple latrines that often sink because of the loose soil formation.