Well Worth It
Well Worth It seeks to provide communities with access to safe, clean, drinking water; a basic human right.
Women and girls in Uganda spend up to 6 hours a day, every day, collecting water for their families.
For most people, their nearest water source is between 5 - 10kms away.
Often, when they reach the water source, it isn’t even clean.
The time that it takes to collect this water is time that could be spent tending to crops, working on additional Income Generating Activities, and learning new skills. It is also preventing girls from accessing an education – education that will give them opportunities that poverty will not.
Well Worth It is a water well drilling project that seeks to restore clean water access to communities in northern Uganda. The project arose out of the findings of our Impact Report in Cents for Seeds. The impact survey showed that the overall wellbeing of everyone in a household is directly linked with access to water. Now, with each new well drilled, communities in northern Uganda are provided access to clean water, and a better chance to fight poverty.
We’re passionate about locally-led, sustainable development.
With your support, Love Mercy drills wells, trains the community on use and upkeep, and provides long-term maintenance and repair support so that clean water access is sustainable and reliable.
How you can help:
Your gift can help provide clean water to communities in northern Uganda.
$300 repairs a well
$8,000 builds a new well
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Did you know that there are approximately 50,000 water points installed across Africa that no longer work?
Northern Uganda is no exception to this, with many boreholes failing due to lack of regular maintenance.
Repairing one of these wells will restore clean water access to hundreds of people who desperately need it.
$300 repairs a well.
Give the gift of clean water to a community now.
Our goals for 2024:
20
new wells in villages desperately in need of access to clean water
14,000
individuals impacted with access to safe, clean, drinking water
130
wells repaired to restore clean water to communities whose well has broken down
You can fundraise to build a well and restore clean water access for an entire community.
Current fundraisers for Well Worth It
2024
Sydney
Marathon
Support those running for clean water in the 2024 Sydney Marathon.
Maitland Christian School
Hike
a Hundred
Support students hiking from Wollongong to Sydney for clean water.