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Aid Projects in the Field of Water

We carry out aid projects in Africa with a focus on water and ensure that people have access to clean water – water is a human right.

Development aid is close to our hearts because poverty is unacceptable. People are not to blame for their poverty, which is being exacerbated by climate change in many regions of Africa – even though the people there contribute least to the causes. Every human being has dignity and the right to live in safety and health.

In our aid projects, we build wells, treat contaminated water to make it drinkable, and restore dry land to fertility through irrigation. We personally oversee the projects from start to finish.

Water is a human right

More than 2.2 billion people worldwide still have no access to clean water, and around 3.5 billion people do not have adequate sanitation facilities.

While we get our water from the tap, many people in Africa have to fetch it from far away. Every day, women and children spend several hours doing this. After this strenuous work, the children are often tired and find it difficult to concentrate at school, if they are able to attend at all.

With your donation, you are helping to make clean water available directly in the village. Clean water prevents disease and enables children to attend school regularly. Your donation thus contributes to a more dignified life.

Our Development Aid in Figures

8

Countries supported

31

Aid projects carried out

46.000

People helped

Our Mission

Latest News

  • Newsletter - Water changes daily life

    Escaping drought with water

    2025-12-22
    Teaser for Newsletter

    In Chideza, Zambia, a drip irrigation project is transforming rural livelihoods. By delivering water directly to crops, families can farm more efficiently and independently from the rainy season.

    Just...

    Read more: Escaping...

  • A village gains new opportunities throug

    How Drip Irrigation Changed Nelly’s Life

    2025-12-20
    Portrait Nelly Mwale

    Nelly Mwale is one of many farmers in rural Zambia who received a small plot of land equipped with drip irrigation. Before the project, farming depended entirely on the rainy season, making harvests...

    Read more: How Drip...

  • Irrigation creates a future in Chideza

    The first harvest after eight weeks

    2025-12-18
    Ripe tomatoes in a field

    Just eight weeks after sowing, the first harvest was ready: tomatoes, maize, peanuts, pumpkins, okra and beans. For the people of Chideza, this is a completely new experience – a harvest outside the...

    Read more: The first...

Our development aid in Africa – helping people to help themselves

Helping people to help themselves creates prospects

Real help means more than short-term support or emergency aid – it focuses on helping people to help themselves. It helps people overcome poverty.

Practical Training

In our aid projects, the population learns through practical training how to treat contaminated water to make it drinkable, for example. We train our partners in the construction of wells. Among other things, they learn that it is particularly important to carry out a pump test professionally.

In our irrigation projects, the local population lays kilometres of pipes themselves under supervision and learns how to operate and maintain the systems efficiently.

Microfinance System for Sustainability

To ensure sustainability, we are also introducing a microfinance system. Well construction, agriculture, drinking water and training – this is how long-term change is achieved through our own efforts.

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Donations Account

Recipient:
Institute Water for Africa e.V.
Bank:
Evangelische Bank Kassel
IBAN:
DE76 5206 0410 0005 0240 13
BIC:
GENO DE F1 EK1