Fountain of Life

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.