Clean Water Changes Everything

Global Thirst Relief Fund

Not sure where to start? This flexible gift goes directly to the water projects with the most urgent need, funding larger shared wells and filling the gaps that other donations can't reach. It's the fastest way to make sure your donation has maximum impact, wherever in the world it's needed most.

Emergency Water Delivery

In Gaza, Sudan and Yemen, wells and pipelines have been destroyed by conflict, leaving displaced and besieged families without a single safe source of water. Emergency Water Delivery brings clean water directly to these communities by tanker truck.

Each 5,000-litre delivery sustains hundreds of people, keeping a community going until permanent systems can be rebuilt. When the need is immediate, this is the fastest way to help.

• Delivery size: 5,000 litres per truck
• Reach: Hundreds of people per delivery
• Regions: Gaza, Sudan, Yemen

Hand-Pump Well

A sealed hand-pump well brings safe drinking water directly to a family or a small cluster of homes. This water solution is critical in arsenic-affected regions of Bangladesh and the rocky highlands of Kashmir and Pakistan, where shallow water sources are often unsafe. Where the terrain is hard or water sits deep underground, we install a mechanized deep pump instead, so the well keeps running year-round, regardless of season.

• Serves: 30–60 people (6–12 households)
• Depth: Approx. 60–100 ft
• Construction: Sealed well head with concrete apron and washing pad
• Regions: Bangladesh, Kashmir, Pakistan

High-Yield Community Well

This shared well reaches deep, pressurized groundwater that stays clean even when shallow sources turn salty or become contaminated by flooding. Fitted with an electric, solar, or pulley lift system, storage tank, taps and a cement basin, it delivers a reliable daily water source to an entire village.

• Serves: 150–250 people per day
• Depth: Varies by site; up to approx. 80 m where needed
• Construction: Electric/solar or pulley lift, storage tank, taps, cement basin
• Regions: Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia

Community Borehole

Across East and West Africa, water scarcity can be severe and unrelenting. This deep, durable hand-pump borehole is drilled to a protected aquifer far below the reach of drought or contamination. Fitted with a standard pump that local communities are trained to maintain themselves, water keeps flowing long after the well is handed over, for the whole village to rely on for years to come.

• Serves: 300–500 people (village-wide)
• Depth: Approx. 120–270 ft (shallower where the water table allows)
• Construction: Afridev-standard pump, cement apron, washing area
• Regions: Chad, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Nigeria, Cameroon

Off-Grid Water Well

This is a high-capacity solar-powered water system complete with a pump, elevated storage tank, and multiple tap stations, bringing reliable water access to communities off-grid or regions where the availability of electricity is inconsistent. Water can be stored for the dry season, ending the long daily walk for water that so often falls to women and girls in Pakistan, Ghana, and Senegal.

Placed at a mosque or school, a single solar well can become a village's central water point, running entirely off-grid, day and night, all year round.

• Serves: 500–1,000 people
• Depth: Approx. 65–100 ft (20–30 m)
• Construction: Solar/electric pump, storage tank, distributed tap stands
• Regions: Ghana, Senegal, Pakistan