Implement 20 new projects a year and enter into new areas surrounding Kenya and Tanzania. Secure sustainable funding so that we can continue to serve communities in need. Build our volunteer team of hydrologists and engineers who help design and implement our projects.

Well Aware believes that it is our obligation to our communities and our donors to be the best possible stewards of their trust and resources. So, we combine innovation, collaboration, and community involvement to have an exponential impact.

Our partner communities are not charity cases. They are motivated, organized, and prepared communities who need only sustainable clean water to kick-start their success. Every community with which we are privileged to work has submitted a project proposal to Well Aware. We are not able to serve everyone seeking partnership, but we provide guidelines for organization to apply again at a later time.

Sustainability is not just a buzzword to us. We have studied and experienced everything that has worked and failed in Africa. We collaborate with carefully selected and approved nonprofit partners who add great value and sustainability to each community in other areas of need specific to them.

We combine four main components that are proven to give communities a greater chance of prosperity, and that strategy is yielding amazing results.

Our teams are innovative and evolving. Since we do it all—fundraising, operating, implementing, training, and community education--and providing follow-up— we have a working knowledge of technological, environmental, and cultural influences and limitations. Our team constantly tracks data from the field, and we tweak and improve our methods accordingly.

Our organization is lean and our operations are transparent. Our operational costs are low, and we do not try to mask them with public support models.

We focus on impact. We are proud of the number of people we serve, but the quality of our work and results is as important as the quantity.

We work with communities, not for them. Our team understands that the communities in which we work know better than anyone else what they need, and we listen.

We know that two pairs of helping hands are better than one. Unlike much of the nonprofit sector, we have strong strategic nonprofit partnerships, often more than one on each project. For each dollar invested in Well Aware's water systems, it is matched in partner contributions for each community.

Well Aware's water projects adhere to our organization's project approval and execution process and meet our strict sustainability criteria. Each project is tailored to community needs and potential, as well local environmental conditions and projections. We drill and rehab water wells, install rainwater collection systems, and install gravity driven pipelines.

On average, Well Aware can provide lasting clean water to one person for $9.13 dollars. Since its founding, Well Aware has funded 20 water projects and provided clean water to more than 80,000 people, and we are on track to at least double this impact in the coming years.