Madagascar is located east of the southern African continent in the Indian Ocean. Being relatively isolated from neighboring countries, Madagascar has over 20 ethnic groups that mainly live in small villages in rural areas. Conditions of life vary greatly from region to region. Rural areas generally lack many of the amenities that are available to even the urban poor, including access to electricity, running water, and safe drinking water.

Our urban friends in Madagascar have been using their own funds and labor to build water collection sites in higher elevated areas to run water lines down into remote villages to a spicket. For some villages, this means no longer walking 3-miles to a water source. This process is labor-intensive, time consuming, and still at times, not clean because the water collection source is at surface level.

We want to provide the Malagasy people with a proper drill that can access clean ground water below the earth’s surface and the education to use this drill properly & repeatedly. This will be less labor-intensive, cheaper in the long-term and most importantly, provide clean drinking water to the majority of the rural-population.

This fundraiser is to purchase and ship the drill, provide education to the local people on how to use the drill, and to dig 4 wells servicing hundreds of families.