our projects


Wine To Water has worked with Samaritan's Purse in Nyala, South Darfur on water and sanitation projects in the surrounding war torn region. We helped support activities such as trucking water to displaced persons in an area known as Marla, and have helped rehabilitate old wells that were unable to produce water due to faulty pumping mechanisms and corroded piping systems.  We also supported construction for emergency latrines throughout the region.

In Uganda, Wine To Water partners with both a local community based organization called Connect Africa and Samaritan's Purse UK. Together we have built four water and sanitation training facilities and have distributed over 500 bio-sand filters. Our training facilities serve as centers where filters can be made locally, using local materials. They also serve as a place where locals are trained on how to access clean water and taught to construct their own filters. With the knowledge they gain at these centers they are able to go back to their home villages and teach others.

Wine To Water worked alongside of Samaritan's Purse to construct an entire water system for an orphanage located in the slums of Sudan’s capital city. Before we were able to intervene the children and staff were drinking from a basin of standing water. Standing water is a haven for deadly bacteria, especially when the children drink out of the same bin that they wash in. The children and staff of the orphanage now have access to an adequate supply of clean running water.

In  India Wine To Water partnered with an organization called Sixty 1. We helped installed a new running water system for a leper colony located on the outskirts of New Delhi.

In Cambodia, Wine To Water partners with a local community based organization called Kone Kmeng.  We have drilled over 150 wells in provinces throughout Cambodia, including the poorest region of Svay Riegn. In December of 2008 we purchased a drill rig made of local parts and began drilling an average of 4 wells every month. Nine months later, in September 2009, we increased our capacity to 16 wells per month. The average depth for these wells is between 90 and 100 feet. 

When we first started this project the typical cost for a well in Cambodia was about $2,500.  By making our own hand-pumps using local materials and utilizing local workers to drill the wells we were able to get the cost down to $500 per well.

In September 2009 Wine To Water supported Inca Link by installing a well for one of their orphanages in Trujillo.  The orphanage is being built to house 123 orphans, many of them will be coming out of the local trash dump.  We also installed a running water system for a daycare facility that houses many of the children from the trash dump and distributed ceramic water filters throughout the community.

Since 2007, Wine To Water has drilled four wells in the Langano region of Ethiopia, south of the capital city Addis Ababa. We partner with a local organization called Water is Life. This year we are working with them to help fund the purchase of a deep borehole drilling rig that will allow us to drill in the arid, northern region of the country.

In Sri Lanka we work alongside an organization called Fridsro. In 2010 we completed our first project working with them to dig a well in the Thoppigala region.

Wine To Water partnered with Hands at Work on a project in Mufambiza, South Africa. There we drilled a well for a facility that reaches out to local orphans in the community and teaches them valuable skills such as agriculture and gardening. Our well was the first well ever drilled in that community.

In response to the earthquake in Haiti, Wine To Water responded by partnering with Filter Pure to distribute 500 ceramic water filters. Theses filters can provide clean water for a family of 10 for up to five years. Along with Filter Pure we have also began to build a Haitian run ceramic filter factory to ensure clean water will continue to get to those who need it most.