Ibrahim Foundation

The Ibrahim Foundation is committed to helping break this cycle of poverty and disease. Together with Purifi, the One Hundred Wells Campaign has been launched to meet what has been described as one of the great human development challenges of the 21st century. Lack of access to clean water and proper sanitation is an issue like hunger that people i... n poverty tend to suffer in silence. The Ibrahim Foundation believes that in a world where the technology exists to address this, clean water should not be a privilege but a basic human right. The campaign to finance the digging of one hundred wells in desperately needy communities will provide water security for sustainable village agriculture as well as clean water for drinking and for improved sanitation. The cost of drilling and establishing a well varies from region to region - the depth of the well and the quality of the water require different methods to secure the supply. Costs vary considerably as many target areas are remote and drilling equipment and materials often have to be transported through difficult terrain and sometimes unstable regions. As well as drilling and completing the structure of the wells, Purifi additionally provides a unique advanced drinking water purifier in the form of an affordable cost-effective disinfectant without side-effects or by-products, creating a short cut to clean water where the supply may have been contaminated. Demand for this project has been influenced by the success of the Ibrahim Foundation and Purifi in establishing relief in disaster areas where clean drinking water has been an immediate necessity, such as after floods, typhoons and earthquakes. With this experience, and a profound awareness of the immediacy of the humanitarian need for clean water, Purifi and the Ibrahim Foundation have established an endowment of one million euros to launch the next phase of operations, the One Hundred Wells Campaign. Imagine that hundreds of millions of people in rural third world countries go through life without ever using ...Read More