Fountain of Life

UKCharitywww.fountainoflife.org.uk

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Registered 2015

Fountain of Life is dedicated to bringing an affordable and sustainable source of safely managed water to those in need. While many NGOs overlook the family unit to focus on constructing community wells, the primary focus of our work is centred on offering individuals and/or families the ability to own their own borehole, which creates not only dignity but long-term sustainability and self-sufficiency. Rather than paying partners to carry out our work, we go, we learn, and we do. As a result, we now have a team of six highly skilled installation technicians working full time for Fountain of Life in Senegal. Appropriate technologies are central to all that we do. Solutions are effective, accessible, low-cost and easy to implement. Technology must be simple enough that it can be managed directly and on a local level, making use of skills, technology and materials that are available in the local community.

While many NGOs overlook the family unit to focus on constructing community wells, the primary focus of our work is centred on offering individuals and/or families the ability to own their own borehole, which creates not only dignity but long-term sustainability and self-sufficiency. Rather than paying partners to carry out our work, we go, we learn, and we do. As a result, we now have a team of six highly skilled installation technicians working full time for Fountain of Life in Senegal. Appropriate technologies are central to all that we do. Solutions are effective, accessible, low-cost and easy to implement. Technology must be simple enough that it can be managed directly and on a local level, making use of skills, technology and materials that are available in the local community.