Clean-water well for Aab-e-Khoshk village (412 residents)

The village name says it all: Aab-e-Khoshk, "dry water." For four generations, women and children walk two hours each way to a seasonal spring. In dry years they walk further. The geological survey was completed last winter — a sustainable water table sits 47 meters down. A solar-pumped well + 5,000-liter holding tank costs $3,000 to install and roughly $40/year to maintain. Aab-e-Khoshk Community Council has committed to long-term maintenance funded by a small per-household contribution after year one. We are 95% to goal. Two more weeks of donations and we sign the contract.