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Our first job is to work directly with poor families and communities like this one.
A Water for All sponsored well drilling “club” in the isolated village of San Miguelito, Bolivia. After drilling their first family well to a depth of 179 ft., the club drilled 10 more wells and paid for their own well materials. WFA lent a drilling rig and provided training. The man in the white cap is named Norberto. He started his own artisan rural water well business and has since drilled many more dozens of wells.
A family victimized by the tsunami gets a WFA personal family well and pump made using family labor for under $40 material cost. Baticaloa,
Sri Lanka.
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Water for All’s aim is to work directly with the rural poor within their local communities to empower families and communities to drill their own water wells. As Christians, we make friends with the poor we work with and with local believers and churches in the communities in which we work. We also share the Gospel when it is fitting in culturally appropriate ways. This helps WFA know the people we serve from the “inside out” and love people from the “bottom up.” We strive to love and value all people no matter what faith or background.
We have found a direct hand-in-hand method of working with families is the most effective way to actually empower the poor to permanently solve water and food problems. We offer direct training to poor families and communities free of cost. We have done this extensively in Bolivia, and have also trained partners to do this in Nicaragua. WFA is now drilling trial wells with partners in Ethiopia and is in the process of opening a long term WFA program to empower Ethiopia's poor to drill their own wells as we have done in Bolivia. We have seen the poor empowered using our drilling technology in Bolivia, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Mexico, and Argentina. The poor do have the local assets to help them selves in many ways if they have the right tools. So our first committment is to work directly with poor families. Our second committment is to help other groups who also work directly with poor families and have a long term positive relationship. Call us or contact us if you work with poor rural families who need water. Maybe we can help or form a partnership to teach you to teach the poor to dril thier own wells. Or if you are a poor person and live in a poor area and you and your community needs water, do contact us. Maybe we can help. |
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