After the problems due to Covid we are now preparing the finishing of the two wells in Kwale. Gerrit and Fred will go there for the first 2 weeks of april to finish the wells with help of local people. We aspect that the well at the school have to be cleaned from the mud…
Latest news about the production of the WEEWEE (modified FLOFLO) The Don Bosco organization in Nairobi will produce and sell the drill with the help of WellWishes. The design of the drill is made by WellWishes with the help of the Windesheim University in the Netherlands. With all the experiences we had with the FLOFLO-drill…
Our team has drilled a new well at Lasaen (North Kenya) The well is now nearly completed. We are waiting for a part of the pump which is not available in the North Our team has also educated an Uganda team how to drill with a Floflo system. This new team will also be supported…
At the end of July 2017 we go with a group (Jambo Kenia 2017) of 13 students from the Netherlands to renovate a classroom in a technical school in Marsabit, North Kenya. the group raised a lot of money for this project and also raised funds to make at least 3 wells in the dry…
Yesterday our WellWishes team in Chavakali, Southwest Kenya, finished this water project. After 4 weeks of drilling they reached the water level at more than 100 Feet deep. The level of the water in the pipe is 15 feet so enough water for the 350 children of the primary school. With this well the NGO…
Last year we drilled a well in Ngurunit, North Kenya, which provided a small community with safe clean drinking water. Now after one year, the well is still giving plenty of water to the community of about 500 people. Even in the drought months this well was one of the only wells in Ngurunit…
Our team in Chavakali have drilled about 50 feet this last week. They expect that the ground water level is at about 60 feet so with a drilling of 5 feet per day we hope that at the end of coming week we hit water. With this water we can give 300 schoolchildren safe clean…
This day WellWishes has started a new project in Chavakali, a small village north of Kisumu. This project is from an NGO in the Netherlands. They are helping a primary school with renovating their school and also give them an own well so the 300 children can get safe water. The NGO from the Netherlands…
We were pleased with the gift of an extra Floflo drill system from the Netherlands Rotary club Goes-de Bevelanden, the English Rotary club Gravesend and Meopham and the French Rotary club Dunkerque-Horizons. The first thing what we will do with this drill is to research some improvements done by students of Windesheim University. After this…
One of the problems in some communities in North Kenya is the lack of ground water in dry periods of the year. This is the reason that WellWishes starts a study project with students of “Windesheim University of applied sciences” in the Netherlands. The students will examine how the rivers in this part of Kenya can more effective drain…
