My name is Rhianna, I’m a 22-year old student studying International Development at the University of Portsmouth. In December 2019, I had an incredible opportunity to see 10 of the villages WellFound supports across Guinea Bissau. This small Portuguese speaking country passes unnoticed in the UK despite being one of the poorest places on earth. […]
We are delighted to say we have reached our target for the Big Give 2019. Thanks to the generosity of many people we have in fact raised £11,609 in just over three days. We are very grateful for all the gifts received which will go to our work in Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone. The Big […]
When we sit behind our computers or staring down at our phones, we can be disconnected from the realities on the ground. Behind every photo, every update and every post on social media, there are real people with real stories. This is one of them: Bento, 25 years old: Bento learned farming from his parents. […]
We live in a time where everything is readily available. From buying food to travelling to even reading this very article, life has never been so simple. So, it’s not surprising that we often forget what goes on behind the scenes, all the complicated processes that make many aspects of life so effortless. But let’s […]
Women across the world and across Africa face a multitude of challenges every day, many of which often are not discussed. This topic is incredibly diverse and challenges which women face in one country or region can be radically different from those faced elsewhere on the continent. Indeed, for any topic regarding Africa to be […]
In 2018 Gill Shaw, international people photographer and trustee of WellFound, travelled to Guinea-Bissau to photograph the transforming power of clean water in the lives of the impoverished villagers. Now in spring 2019 she is putting on a major photographic exhibition in London: “Everyone in this world deserves clean, running water”. The exhibition details are […]
Thank you to everyone for their kind and generous donations for our charity in our Christmas Raffle. We in WellFound are very grateful for all your support and kind wishes. From the selling of the tickets, we have managed to raise £862, and the great news is we can now purchase a water pump for […]
We are delighted to say WellFound raised £18,625.75 during the week of the Big Give. This is a fantastic amount and we are very grateful to all who gave. We would also like to thank those who provided the match funding, and to acknowledge that we also received a significant amount of Gift Aid. All this […]
Donations to the Big Give Christmas Challenge will close at 12 noon on Tuesday 4th December 2018. All donations made to WellFound via the Big Give for the next 24 hours will be doubled at no cost to you, the donor. Thanks to the amazing generosity of many people, we have already raised £16,784 in […]
We are delighted to be part of the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2018. This is the UK’s biggest online match funding campaign and starts today, Tuesday 27th November, for one week only. Anyone who gives to WellFound via the Big Give during campaign week will have their donation doubled at no extra cost to you. […]
Donations to the Big Give Christmas Challenge open at 12 noon on Tuesday 27th November. All donations made to WellFound via the Big Give for seven days from this date will be doubled at no cost to you, the donor. We will use the money to transform a village in rural Guinea-Bissau in 2018. You […]
We are delighted that WellFound has been selected to be part of the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2018. We will be raising money to work in villages in Guinea Bissau and Sierra Leone in 2019. Donations to the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2018 will open on #GivingTuesday, 27th November. All donations made to WellFound via the […]
The Big Give 2018 is fast approaching. But before we talk about that, we wanted to give you an update on what we did with the money raised in the Big Give 2017. Last year, with your support and in partnership with The Big Give, we doubled your donations and raised a grand total of […]
WellFound has been working in five new villages in the islands off Guinea-Bissau in 2018. Work started in the summer and has continued through the rainy season. We are making good progress and there is a real sense of WellFound and the local people working together. We’ll publish updates on each village in the coming […]
The 10th Anniversary Golf Day took place on a beautiful summer’s day at Harleyford Golf Club near Marlow. Thank you to everyone who took part, congratulations to the winners, and, as always, all the money raised will go directly to helping poverty stricken people in West Africa. Enjoy the photos which were taken for us […]
Over the last few days we have been featuring a series of reports from Gill Shaw, one of our trustees, on our Facebook page. This followed her recent recent visit to Guinea-Bissau to take photographs for an exhibition to graphically illustrate the needs that exist, and the transformation that clean water can enable. We’ve now […]
One of the objectives of the recent trip to Guinea-Bissau was to select new villages where we will work in partnership with the villagers for the first time this year. As you might imagine this is a very difficult task as there is so much need. This is a village on the island of Caravela […]
22nd March is World Water Day. Around the world, individuals and organisations will be marking this, and WellFound is pleased to play our part. Today our founder Howard, our Patron Mary Perner, and one of our trustees Gill Shaw are travelling out to Guinea-Bissau. Gill, who works as an international photographer, will be bringing back […]
Back in 2016 the four villages of Binhome, Cali, Wapte and Paili had no access to clean, drinking water. The villages are all in the same rural area, about two hours drive out of the capital Bissau. WellFound has been working in partnership with these four villages and the degree of transformation which is made […]
Cali is a small village with a total population of 408 people in rural Guinea-Bissau. WellFound has been working here, in partnership with the local people, since June 2017. Before starting work, the WellFound CEO and local Project Manager in Guinea Bissau undertook a needs assessment. They identified that the village lacked access to fresh […]
