Support WILK's Clean Water Fund to Transform Lives in 2026!

About WILK's Clean Water Fund

As we travel through our work region in Southern Kenya, we see projects built by others that are falling apart and in need of repair. We are ready, with your generous support, to rehabilitate, upgrade, and restore broken and incomplete projects to full functionality. Your year-end gift will help more people have reliable water next year.

Here are some of the projects that will be supported by donations to our Clean Water Fund in 2026:

1. IMURTOT HEALTH CENTER. A borehole was drilled two years ago, but it still lacks water storage and piping into the facility. Providing a dependable water supply will end the sanitation hazard the health center currently faces.
   
2. ENKONG'U NAROK COMMUNITY BOREHOLE. The diesel-powered generator equipped in 2014 has become too expensive for residents. Solarizing the borehole will reduce costs and increase water use in the community.
3. SUNTE COMMUNITY BOREHOLE WATER PUMP. Replacing their broken water pump will bring water to their growing population and allow for farming.
4. KUKU COMMUNITY BOREHOLE SOLARIZATION. Like Enkong’u Narok, Kuku Borehole needs to reduce running costs so they can increase crop cultivation, improve their food supply, and bolster family incomes.
5. ENKUTOTO COMMUNITY BOREHOLE REHABILITATION. This project needs repairs and water management training to overcome past conflicts.

Are you ready to help us solve these problems right away next year?

A mother and her daughter load water onto a donkey in southern Kenya near Inkisanjani, the site of a 2025 WILK clean water project.

We Answer the Need for Clean Water

In 2006, I was on a fundraising walk in southern Kenya, raising money for girls to attend school. But instead, I saw girls carrying five gallon jerry cans slung on their backs as they helped their moms fetch water.

The fact is that clean water unleashes opportunities for so many people. New water sources reduce the distance women and girls walk for water. Women have more time and girls can attend school.

Not only is the daily burden of collecting water lifted — clean water also improves health, reduces waterborne illnesses, and provides greater dignity.

For 18 years, we have developed a comprehensive approach to transformation through our WASH (clean water, sanitation, and hygiene) projects.

As our projects deliver uninterrupted water supplies and practical education to tens of thousands every day, the requests for water persist.

To fulfill the growing need for clean water, we have set the goal to raise $250,000 for this year-end Clean Water Fund.

We are asking for YOU to step up and support us.

- Joyce Tannian, Executive Director & Co-Founder

A woman collecting water in Inkisanjani, the site of a 2025 WILK Clean Water Project.

Upcoming Project in Focus: Imurtot Health Center's Water Crisis

At Imurtot Health Center, a regional hospital for over 30,000 Maasai residents in the Mt. Kilimanjaro highland region, a borehole well was drilled 2 years ago by the Kenyan government and sat unused — nobody installed a water pump or power source for 18 months.

Today, though it’s now equipped, the well is still without water storage or piping into the facility. Hospital administrators have reached out to the local government for help installing new water tanks. Their response? A 2-year waiting list.

A hospital without a dependable water supply is an obvious sanitation hazard, especially for birthing mothers in the maternity ward.

Imurtot Health Center and its patients need a solution in 2026, not 2028.

With your help, we can solve this problem immediately.

Our new Clean Water Fund will give us the resources to respond to emerging needs, such as at Imurtot Health Center.

Women gather in procession during the Opening Ceremony at Inkisanjani.

How You Can Help

We know donors like you contribute your hard-earned dollars to support us. This is why we maintain high standards with all our projects, no matter the size.

A key lesson we’ve learned is that unless people are well trained, water systems fail. That’s why we invest in community leadership at each project by developing Water Management Committees and training them annually.

Because of this approach, our WASH projects are 90% successful , with some running continuously for over 15 years.

With your support, we seek to raise $250,000 to establish our Clean Water Fund and ensure our ongoing programs, such as Livestock as a Business and Hope for Widows, continue without interruption next year. With water available, communities can participate in our income generating programs.

When the work seems overwhelming, it’s helpful to remind myself of how many people have supported us over the years. Thousands of generous people — just like YOU — have responded with abundant gifts.

Would you consider donating to our Clean Water Fund so we can solve problems like Imurtot Health Center in 2026?

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