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_{Water for Africa is a}_UK_{based charity that specialises in drilling cost-effective, reliable boreholes and installing handpumps in rural}West Africa.

We carry out training for village water resource managers and assist with major repairs and spare parts replacement.

_{We also provide drilling services, using locally trained and managed teams, for national and multi-national donors, NGO’s (None Governmental Organisation) and individual entrepreneurs. Clients have included the UNDP, Action Aid and FAO.}

According to the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) if the Millennium Development Goals are to be met, it will require 1000 drilling rigs to operate continuously for the next 10 years and 35,000 boreholes per year need to be drilled in sub-Saharan Africa.

Cost Effective Drilling: Close to half of all people in developing countries are suffering at any given time from a health problem caused by water and sanitation deficits.
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One woman dies every minute from in pregnancy and childbirth, each year more than 536,000 women die due to complications and 10 million more suffer debilitating illnesses and lifelong disabilities.

How We Are Different

We are constantly bombarded with request for support for the developing world and we need to know it is making a difference and reaching the communities on the ground

Changing Lives: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. - Chinese Proverb
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Water For Africa

Water for Africa is a UK based charity that specialises in drilling cost-effective, reliable boreholes and installing handpumps in rural West Africa.

We carry out training for village water resource managers and assist with major repairs and spare parts replacement.

We also provide drilling services, using locally trained and managed teams, for national and multi-national donors, NGO’s (None Governmental Organisation) and individual entrepreneurs. Clients have included the UNDP, Action Aid and FAO.

According to the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) if the Millennium Development Goals are to be met, it will require 1000 drilling rigs to operate continuously for the next 10 years and 35,000 boreholes per year need to be drilled in sub-Saharan Africa.

_{Water for Africa is a}_UK_{based charity that specialises in drilling cost-effective, reliable boreholes and installing handpumps in rural}West Africa.

_{We also provide drilling services, using locally trained and managed teams, for national and multi-national donors, NGO’s (None Governmental Organisation) and individual entrepreneurs. Clients have included the UNDP, Action Aid and FAO.}