A clean water supply is vital for life.

When a village has no clean water supply, people will drink from dirty pools, walk miles to find a pump, or go without.

The results are diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases, as well as exhaustion and dehydration. Of deaths that occur from unsafe water and unhygienic living conditions, 90% are in children under five years old.

A safe and sustainable supply of water – for drinking, cooking, washing, watering animals and growing food – is essential for life.

In Burkina they say: “L’eau, c’est la Vie!” – “Water is Life!”

APT has trained Seydou in well-repair. He repairs broken-down pumps in villages in the province of Oudalan, restoring a clean water supply for the fraction of the cost of a new well.

As funds allow, we also drill new wells in villages with no clean water supply.

Financial Need:

APT can repair a broken-down pump for about £200, and need about £2,000/year for current work.

We can install a new well in a village for about £5,000.