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Water: Build a Village Water Well through Water for South Sudan

Access to clean drinking water is essential for human development. Clean drinking water also prevents waterborne diseases like cholera, typhoid fever, and diarrhea, which can disproportionately affect children and the most vulnerable. Water for South Sudan (WFSS) is one of the largest and most effective providers of water wells in sub-Sahara Africa, with over 600 wells drilled since 2005. They have provided clean water to over half a million people. Splendonor has partnered with Water for South Sudan to allow donors to easily sponsor and track the construction of a specific well which provides life-sustaining fresh water to an entire rural community. Only $20,000 is needed to sponsor a well.

Project budget: $20,000

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Clean Water

Clean water is essential to human health. Many rural African communities have minimal access to clean water and currently must rely on contaminated shallow water. A deep water well installed by Water for South Sudan will immediately change lives, strengthen families and allow communities to prosper. Sponsorship of a water well for a rural community is perhaps the single most impactful investment in human capital that exists today.

Project Details

Each well costs $20,000 to design, select a location, obtain municipal approval, install, and train local operators. Water for South Sudan (WFSS) manages all aspects of this process, and will guarantee the guarantee the successful completion and operation of each well. The wells are typically installed during the dry summer months, however planning and design takes place year-round.

100% of your donation goes directly to Water for South Sudan. Donations through Splendonor enjoy all the benefits of WFSS's platform plus the oversight and monitoring that Splendonor provides.

Splendonor has visited WFSS's headquarters in Wau, South Sudan and inspected their well designs and installations to assure the quality of their product. WFSS uses high quality stainless steel well shafts and pumps in deep bore holes, with concrete platforms and water troughs, to assure maintenance-free operations for many years. A WFSS well is typically drilled over 400 feet below the surface, assuring a consistent water supply for many years. WFSS employs their own fleet of drilling rigs and well equipment, allowing WFSS to both install and maintain all of their wells throughout South Sudan.

Salva Dut

Water for South Sudan was founder by Salva Dut, whose story is memorialized in the New York Times bestselling book, A Long Walk to Water. Salva Dut was born in a rural village in southwestern Sudan to the Dinka tribe. At 11 years old, the Sudanese Civil War reached his village and separated Salva from his family. He joined thousands of boys, famously known as the Lost Boys of Sudan, on their journey by foot to seek safety in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. After living in refugee camps for 10 years, Salva was given the opportunity to move to the United States, where he was embraced by a family in Rochester, New York. Several years later, Salva learned that his father was still alive in Southern Sudan but was suffering with a disease caused by waterborne parasites. His father’s illness inspired Salva to help both his father and his country by bringing clean water to those in need. This was the beginning of Water for South Sudan.

Salva Dut with Damian Wach of Splendonor

Visit the Water for South Sudan website to learn more.

www.waterforsouthsudan.org