Our Values

WOL promises ethical and financial accountability to both donors and beneficiaries.
WOL employees, as well as its managers and board members, will demonstrate and observe respect for East African culture and customs.
WOL will, at all times, preserve the dignity and maintain cultural respect in all of its print, online, and marketing materials. Photographs and materials will sensitively portray dignified human beings, not hopeless objects of sympathy.
WOL will drill wells and provide water for communities regardless of the race, creed, or nationality of the recipients, and without adverse distinction of any kind. Aid priorities are assessed and agreed to on the basis of need alone.
Wells provided to local beneficiaries will not be used to further a particular political standpoint.
The organization will endeavor to avoid being used as an instrument of government foreign policy.
We will use local resources and capacities as much as possible, and the participation of the beneficiaries will be encouraged.
Our emergency response has not only short-term goals, but long-term objectives to reduce future vulnerabilities.

One in six people worldwide do not have access to safe drinking water.
Water makes up 70% of the earth, but 1.1 billion people lack access to safe water supplies.
According to the U.N., a child dies from waterborne diseases every 15 seconds.
In East Africa, water-related disease kills 1 in 4 children who die before the age of 5.
70% of East African hospital visits are caused by unsafe drinking water.
Women and children walk an average of three miles a day to fetch water.
Women in Africa and Asia carry the U.S. luggage allowance (44 pounds) of water on their heads..
The average U.S. home uses 100 gallons of water each day; an African family uses about five gallons of water each day.