Momentum 2026: Turning Vision Into Velocity Our Year-End Campaign to Raise $300,000

I’ve been to South Sudan nearly a hundred times. I’ve watched women walk for hours carrying water that would make you sick to look at. I’ve seen wells break—and stay broken for years—because no one was trained or equipped to fix them.

That’s why, during COVID, we launched the Women’s Well Repair Initiative. We were done watching women carry the burden of dirty water—literally and figuratively—alone.

Imagine being married at 14, your only job to bear children, hopefully boys. You feed them, search for water, and do it all again, and again. You dream that your daughters will finish school, but eventually you pull them out to help you search for water that may not even be safe to drink.

And then something new happens—something that changes everything from the inside out.

Meet Maria.

Two years ago, she was a farmer scraping a living from soil that gave little back. Today, she’s one of 35 women leading well repair businesses across South Sudan.

When the Panliet Police Station well broke, Maria gathered her tools and her courage. By noon the next day, clean water was flowing again. She earned the equivalent of $20 that day—but what she really earned was a sense of identity, respect, and independence.

This year, Maria and her teammate repaired 40 wells, restoring water to thousands of families. She earned enough to buy food, pay school fees, and grow her small business.

Last year, she was injured during a repair, but she fought her way back to health and led her team to first place in Warrap State, earning three bright plastic chairs as a trophy of honor.

“When I sit on those chairs,” she told us, “I remember what women can do when someone believes in us.”

That’s what your giving makes possible.

Thirty-five women-led repair teams like Maria’s are returning clean water to 85,000 families this year—repairing wells in days, instead of years.

They’re building businesses, leading communities, and changing the story of an entire nation.

Girls are back in school. Women are seen not just as caretakers, but as change makers.

And we’re not slowing down.

Momentum 2026: Turning Vision Into Velocity

We’ve proven it works. Now we’re scaling it—doubling the impact in 2026 on our way to Vision 2030, when:

256 women-led repair teams, organized across all 10 states of South Sudan, are sustaining clean water for every village in the nation. Read all about it in the enclosed impact report.

Our goal isn’t to grow a nonprofit—it’s to end the need for one.

When you give, you’re not sending money to an office. You’re sending it to the field—to women like Maria, who are restoring wells, dignity, and hope.

Thank you for standing with us as we move from proof to progress, from pilot to nation.

Together, we’re ending the water crisis from the inside out.

Your year-end gift powers this momentum. Give today and help us reach our year-end goal and finish what we started—so one day soon, we can say, Mission accomplished. Give now