MyFundAction's larger solar wells
Alongside hand-pump wells, MyFundAction also builds larger solar-powered borehole wells in Nigeria, like this one in Dala, Borno State.
≈ 300 households per solar well
Water Wells — Africa
Clean water shouldn't be a luxury.
Your gift builds wells that bring clean water to families in rural Africa.
Registered 501(c)(3) · EIN 33-3343241 · tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law15 wells finished in Nigeria, February to March 2026
Murky water nearby, or a long walk for clean.
In rural communities across Africa, families live without reliable access to clean, safe water. Every day, children and women walk long distances to find it.
The choice they face is one no family should have to make: drink the murky water close to home and risk illness, or set out on a long, exhausting search for water that's clean. For a child, every hour spent walking for water is time away from school.
MyFundAction builds water wells and pumps in the communities that need them most. A well brings safe water close to home, lowers the risk of waterborne disease, and lets children stay in the classroom instead of on the road.
How your gift brings water within reach
Fund a complete well for a community, or give any amount to the shared water fund. Either way, your gift becomes water that keeps flowing.
Fund a complete well
Give a community its own safe water. $2,500 covers the drilling, the hand pump and a concrete base, and up to 5 names on its plaque.
$2,500 per well
The shared water fund
Give what you can. Gifts to the fund are pooled to complete wells where local partners and community leaders have identified the need.
Any amount helps
Give clean water
Join the shared water fund at any level, or fund a complete well — a sadaqah jariyah whose reward continues for as long as the water flows.
Choose your own amount
Prefer to give monthly? Choose “Monthly” in the secure checkout. A steady gift helps us finish the next well, and the one after it.
“Sa'd ibn 'Ubadah asked, 'O Messenger of Allah, which charity is best?' He said: 'Water.'”
Hadith — Sunan Abu Dawud
The work, on the ground
Wells don't appear overnight. These photos show the work behind them in Nigeria — a well pit measured, ground dug out, a drilling rig on site — and the moment that makes it worthwhile: a community gathered to collect clean water.
- wells finished in Nigeria
- 15
- states: Katsina, Kaduna, Kano and Niger
- 4
- February to March 2026
- 2 months
- wells funded by US supporters, Ramadan 2026
- 3
The 15 wells are listed by location in MyFundAction's Water Well in Africa Report (April 2026). The solar-powered well in Dala, Borno State, shown below, is not one of them.
From MyFundAction's water projects in Nigeria, including the solar-powered well in Dala, Borno State, in February 2026.
Water you can trust
MyFundAction USA is a registered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, part of MyFundAction, a youth-led movement founded in Malaysia in 2014 with programs in several countries. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Every well begins on the ground. Communities are identified through local partners, community leaders and on-ground assessments, and projects are vetted before we fundraise for them. Your gift is held in an account segregated for this project, and is never diverted to another cause.
Amanah, trust, is how we work. Projects go through internal review, and we share photos as the work moves forward and when your well is handed over.
- 1Your giftGiven today, from anywhere in the US
- 2Local partnersCommunity identified & assessed
- 3A community wellRural Africa
Checked before work starts
Our local partner checks each site, and the families it will serve, before work starts. We tell you where your well is in your update.
Segregated accounts
Each project's funds are kept separate, so water-well gifts go to water wells and are never diverted between causes.
Photos from the ground
We share progress updates with photos as the work moves forward, and photos when your well is handed over.
Bring water within reach
A well in the middle of the village changes the day: families drink cleaner water, and children get their mornings back. Share in the reward of every drink drawn from it, for as long as the water flows, and please keep these families in your du'a.
Give clean water now
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