Change is in our hands.

More than 700 million people, one in ten worldwide, have no clean water to drink. Dirty water kills close to a thousand children every day. Together, we can change that.

“To open a well, we drove rough roads out to Kolonda, a village 112 kilometers from Bamako, Mali's capital. Seriba, one of the villagers who had been waiting for us, walked me to the well the village had relied on for thirty years. What I found wasn't a well. It was open water, grey and murky. I stood there wondering how anyone drinks this for years and stays alive.

"Eight hundred people live here," Seriba said. "In the dry season the water drops so low and turns so muddy that we can't use it at all. Now IHH has dug a new well right in the middle of the village, and we have clean water to drink. That solved it.”

Serdar Gürçay, Mali

• Drought, fast population growth, and pollution are drying up the clean water that's left. What remains carries disease.
  
• More than two million people die every year from drought, sickness, and the struggle to reach water.
  
• Where there's no clean water, families are forced to move just to survive. Farming and herding stop.
  
• Across Africa and Asia, people walk kilometers a day just to bring home enough water to get by.

A well changes that for good. Families that would have left can stay. Land that went dry can be farmed again. Children keep going to school instead of walking for water. Where there is clean water, people grow more food, fall sick less often, and the whole village gets stronger.

Join the Clean Water Community and help change this.

25 years. 44 countries. 15,983 wells.

In 25 years we've opened 15,983 wells across 44 countries. Each one is built for the place it serves, and together they've brought water to millions of people who had none.

You can fund a standard water well for €3,000. We build them in 22 countries.

A note on how this works: we choose where each well is built by looking at where the need is greatest, so every well goes where it will help the most. To find out which countries we're working in right now, call us at +90 212 631 21 21.