Village borewell — clean water for the community
← Programs

Clean Energy & Environment

Your gift drills the well. Your gift turns on the evening light. Your gift replaces the open fire. One donor. One village. A generation of change — permanent, named, and verified.

Girl drinking from contaminated drain water
Neeraja
Before the borewell — a garbage-filled canal was all they had

She is cupping the water in both hands from a drain surrounded by garbage. She is thirsty. This photograph was taken on a routine field survey. Three months later, a donor's borewell was drilled thirty metres from her home.

No pipe, no government connection, no safe source within reach. A child farm labourer and her mother collecting water from a waste-choked canal because there was nothing else. A donor's $2,000 gift changed what water means for this family — and for every family in their community.

Your $2,000 drills the well. Permanently.

Read Neeraja's story →
The Scale of the Problem
2.1B
people globally lack safe drinking water
WHO/UNICEF, 2025
250M hrs
spent every day by women and girls collecting water
UNICEF, 2023
842,000
deaths each year from unsafe water & sanitation
WHO, 2024
1.1B
people in rural Asia cook without clean energy access
IEA, 2024
The Difference We Make
900+
permanent borewells drilled — safe water, 30m from the door
1,400+
communities across Asia now have a verified safe water source
$2,000
funds one complete well — drilled, GPS-tagged, handed over permanently
25 yrs
solar panels you fund power school lighting for a full generation — nameable legacy
Clean Water

900 Wells. One Gift at a Time.

In hundreds of villages across Asia, the nearest safe water source is kilometres away — or does not exist at all. Families draw from ponds shared with cattle, open drains, and contaminated streams. The illness is predictable. The deaths among children under five are preventable.

When you give $2,000, a hand-pump borewell is drilled to 30+ metres — below the contamination layer — and handed over to a trained village women's committee. The installation is permanent. The maintenance is community-led. The water is free, safe, and 30 metres from the door.

Your well is GPS-tagged, photographed at handover, and independently verified. A named plaque is fixed at the site. One gift. One well. One village — permanently changed by you.

Your gift covers the full process. The number and spacing of borewells is determined by population size and available groundwater yield — ensuring every household is within reach without over-drawing the aquifer.

Population & land survey
Groundwater yield assessment
Borewell spacing by population & yield
Hydrogeological assessment
30m+ drilling
Concrete platform & fencing
Hand pump installation
Women's committee training
Hygiene awareness sessions
GPS documentation & handover
Solar Energy
Solar panel installation under construction at a school

When the Lights Come On, Evening Study Begins

Off-grid schools across Asia have no reliable electricity. When the sun goes down, study stops. Your gift changes that — one installation you fund powers lighting, fans, and a school kitchen for 25 years.

When you give, photovoltaic systems are installed on school rooftops with battery storage for evening use. Students who had no light after dusk can complete homework, attend evening classes, and access the school after hours — because you gave.

Every solar school you fund can carry your name — the "[Your Name] Solar School" stands as your legacy for a quarter century. Open to corporate and individual donors.

Named Legacy Opportunity

A solar school installation carries your name — or the name of someone you want to honour — on a permanent plaque at the school for 25 years. One gift. One school. A generation of students.

Enquire about a solar school partnership →
Biogas & Organic Systems

Waste to Energy — Closing the Loop

Biogas from Cattle Dung & Poultry Droppings — Your gift sets up a biogas digester fed by livestock waste. It produces cooking gas for school kitchens — displacing LPG costs entirely (saving ~$145/year) and ending open-fire cooking and indoor smoke for the children who live there.

Biogas Slurry → Organic Fertiliser — The nutrient-rich slurry after gas production fertilises fish pond banks and school gardens. Nothing leaves the system as waste. The loop you funded closes completely.

Fish Ponds → Nutrition — Fertilised fish ponds supply protein to school kitchens and the residential home. One integrated system — funded once by you — feeds children, powers cooking, and enriches soil for decades.

The Closed Loop
Cattle + PoultryBiogas digester
BiogasSchool kitchen fuel
SlurryFish pond fertiliser + school garden
Fish + vegetablesNutrition for children
Kitchen wasteBack to digester

Images coming — biogas systems currently being documented in the field.

Rainwater Harvesting

One Gift From You. The School Maintains It Forever.

Your gift installs a rainwater storage tank that collects monsoon water, reducing dependence on trucked supplies during dry months. Installed once, maintained independently by the school from day one — no recurring cost to you.

Fund a Rainwater System →
Five Systems

One Integrated Vision

💧
Water Wells$2,000 — named plaque — permanent
☀️
Solar Schools25-year legacy — nameable
🔥
Biogas SystemsClosed loop — zero waste
🌧️
Rainwater HarvestingOne gift — community maintained
🌿
Organic FertiliserSlurry → fish ponds → nutrition