WELLSPRING AFRICA

Wellspring Africa is a small non-profit organization that was founded to promote water procurement in rural Africa... We believe that the only way we are going to see broad-based and sustainable potable water development in the rural areas of lesser developed countries is through small scale technologies like the ones we are rediscovering, wherein the villagers themselves decide when and where and how the well is to be made and have the means to carry out their wishes themselves... We occasionally do demonstration projects to train more drillers. Our goal is to work with those who have a long-term commitment to building a sustainable small-scale well drilling industry. In 1985 Wellspring Africa volunteers spent nine months in Liberia, West Africa, training technicians in rural villages to drill deep wells. In 1999-2000 we trained drillers in central Nigeria. In 2006 we worked with drillers in Tanzania. In 2008 we trained drillers in Niger.

Primary location: Durham United States