YOU CAN BE A PART OF THIS TOO! Remove and save your aluminum beverage tabs and bring them to church. Place them in the cylinder by the coat rack and you can be part of building more wells.
Wells for Zoë is a small, personal, Irish, voluntary organization, working in Northern Malawi since 2005. Our main focus is enabling the rural poor to access clean, safe drinking water, and over 500,000 people have clean water as a result.
We manufacture a simple plastic hand pump in Mzuzu (main city in Northern Malawi) which can be simply maintained by locals and costs about $113 to make. Villagers dig wells, provide sand and bricks and all labor. The completed well costs about $225 as Wells for Zoë also provide the cement and pipes. This pump can then supply up to 500 people with clean water for life.
This is not the end as we stay with villages to support Preschool, Girl Child and Adult Education and Sustainable Farming.
When a well is installed in a village girls return to school and women have time to spare. People are no longer too sick to work. Gardens are watered and more food is grown. Health is better and children grow up to achieve more. The cycle of poverty is broken. Lives change forever.
We have our own, unique pump; the organization is run by volunteers; 100% of donations get to the projects; we work with Malawians on their personal plans; sustainability is achieved in villages using inspiration, education and challenge so that people can empower themselves.
Having come from two small farms in the west of Ireland, we fully appreciate the value of hard work and education and, in reality, had no difficulty slotting into the poor rural environment that this mad adventure has placed us, with the poorest of the poor subsistence farmers; God’s own people like the people who made us what we are.
We now work in villages, mainly with women who have developed Self Help Clusters, looking at community needs. We work with whole communities on their plans, where they have identified clean water, preschools, adult education and nutrition as their primary needs. We work with people of all religions and none, enabling them to empower themselves to break the never-ending cycle of poverty.
YOU CAN BE A PART OF THIS TOO! Remove and save your aluminum beverage tabs and bring them to church. Place them in the cylinder by the coat rack and you can be part of building more wells.