well aware: clean water for life.

Well Aware is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that provides innovative and sustainable solutions to

water scarcity and contamination in Africa. We fund and implement life-saving water systems to

drive economic development and build self-sufficient communities.

WE ARE NOT A TYPCAL WATER CHARITY

At Well Aware, our responsibility to the communities in which we work goes far beyond the drilling of

a hole. More than 60% of existing water wells in Africa currently do not work. 100% of our water

systems work and they last because of realistic and responsible planning and collaboration. Our

partner communities are thriving as a result.

Since our first project was implemented in 2010, we have doubled our project capacity every year,

and we have growing teams of experts who ensure our projects are completed on time, with

integrity, and with the most cost-effective use of donor dollars.

IMPACT BY THE NUMBERS

Well Aware conducts regular impact measurement surveys on completed projects to track impact,

and most of our partner communities no longer need us. Since we began implementing in 2010, Well

Aware has provided clean water to more than 96,000 people, and we can now provide water for

decades for an average of $9.13 per person.

We are also organizationally lean. Our operational costs have been below 10% for the last three

years.

SUSTAINABILITY- NOT A BUZZ WORD TO US

Our project planning and execution follows our sustainability model, which includes thorough

technical evaluation and oversight, strategic nonprofit partnerships to further community success,

hygiene and sanitation training, and community education, empowerment and support.

HOW WE DO IT

True community involvement, from project request through to follow-ups

Stateside technical expertise (volunteer engineers and hydrogeologists)

Kenya-based local staff

· Strategic partnerships to amplify water system impact

Technical and sanitation and hygiene community training

· Impact measurement to continue to improve process

100% accountability for investments

WHY WE DO IT THE STORY OF KARUI A six year-old girl named Karui lived on the side of a hill in a small tin structure on the dirt in Mithini, Kenya. She was taken into an “orphanage” of nine children who all lost their parents to AIDS. They were all sick from typhoid or malaria and spent several hours each day hiking up and down the hill to a collection of dirty water. This contaminated water, brought back in a wheelbarrow and jerry cans, was their only source for cleaning, cooking and drinking. That’s all that Karui had and all she had ever known. We visited Mithini in 2011, and Karui told us how badly she needed water. Six months later, Well Aware installed a water well for her and her whole community. Today, Karui lives in a proper dorm with plenty of space and 78 other children. She walks only a few steps to a faucet whenever she needs clean water. She helps every day on the several plots of irrigated crops. She reads books to the younger children at the new preschool there, and she likes to watch the construction of the primary school being built next door where she will be a student next year.

When we spoke to her this summer, she told us she is so happy to be healthy, learning lessons, and likes all of the yummy fresh food she eats every day. Karui's story is the story of Well Aware. It is our mission to ensure her story of change continues, one well at a time.