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LIFE
Water, sanitation & hygiene

Let life flow 💧

A borehole means clean drinking water in the village, less disease and children going back to school instead of fetching water.

Boys laughing as they drink and splash each other at a drinking-water standpipe built by LIFE.
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Well no.1 872 — Senegal

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On the ground

Our projects in Africa

Every borehole is agreed with village authorities, built by local teams and handed over to a management committee trained in maintenance.

Our work

Wells that last

Women and children rinsing off at the drinking-water fountain built by LIFE in Krosang, Cambodia.
MaliSégou borehole
Villagers in Indonesia gathered around the hand pump installed by LIFE as part of the WASH project.
NigerTahoua village
Two village women filling their buckets at the water tank installed by LIFE in a Cambodian village.
Burkina FasoKaya school

Before / after a borehole

The difference water makes

Drag the slider: the same village, before and after a borehole arrives.

Illustration: the village after the borehole, with a pump, green vegetable gardens, goats at the trough and children running with school bags on their backs.
Illustration: the same village in the dry season, the earth cracked, children setting off far away with jerrycans on their heads.
BeforeAfter
Illustrations, not photos of a real village.