“First, a bit of background about how I got involved. I was North Devon and West Somerset area co-ordinator for Tearfund for many years. In 2007 Tearfund asked me to go to Burkina Faso, and there I saw...

This year, WellFound is thrilled to launch our Big Give 2024 Campaign again, yet another opportunity to transform lives in some of the most vulnerable rural communities in Sierra Leone. With your support, we aim to achieve our target of...

Sonja Prexler-Schwab is a Doctor of Medicine and Arnold Schwab has a doctorate in agriculture. In 2007 they founded a German NGO, Tabanka, which is made up of former aid workers in West Africa and others who wish to back them up in their...

There is so much need in Sierra Leone that the WellFound team has continued working, where possible, during the rainy season. One village which the team visited recently is Kpeteworma, in the Moyamba district of Sierra Leone.

Agroecology is the application of ecological principles to agricultural processes. The method has proven to transform food systems, agribusiness and wildlife diversity worldwide.

Howard was deeply loved and respected in the villages where he worked in west Africa. That was demonstrated again at celebrations of his life held in the villages of Cali, Guinea-Bissau and Mobona, Sierra Leone.

Action4Schools is a charity based in Gibraltar (https://www.action4schools.gi/ ) that aims to provide a better environment in schools and improve education in remote Sierra Leone.

Action4Schools is a charity based in Gibraltar (https://www.action4schools.gi/ ) that aims to provide a better environment in schools and improve education in remote Sierra Leone.

Between November 2022 and August 2023, WellFound participated in the US Ambassador’s Special-Help Programme to tackle Guinea-Bissau’s widespread issues with water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).

Between May 2022 and May 2023, WellFound worked on a project whose goals were to improve the nutritional intake of the remotest and poorest villages in Guinea-Bissau and alleviate poverty in the region.

The construction of a water well in a very remote village of Sierra Leone held deep personal significance for me, as it served as a tribute to my dear friend, Garfield Hayward, who lost his battle with cancer in November.

The Peter Stebbings Memorial Charity has made a generous donation of £6000.00 to support a well project in Sierra Leone. WellFound, in collaboration with the local community, implemented the project in Vaama Village, located in the...

The Wyn and Ken Lo Memorial Foundation provided £5000 in funding to improve access to clean water for a remote village in Guinea Bissau. The objective was to not only provide clean water but also enhance the economic and social outcomes

“WellFound’s work is very magical”. Here are some of the many fantastic community updates and new project insights from the February-March 2023 trip to Guinea-Bissau and Senegal by Dr Antony Kingsley.

In October 2020, WellFound began a project to help five villages in Guinea Bissau whose water sources were streams and shallow wells more than half a kilometre away from the centre of the villages.

These markers represent almost 54,000 people who now have access to clean water and the opportunity to transform their lives.

An incredible story!!! She raised £460 for WellFound and has donated everything through The Big Give campaign. “She baked a lot on Saturday and managed some early morning Sunday cake deliveries in our neighbourhood, to maximise sales...

Foti and I are a couple from the Netherlands and left our home in Amsterdam to travel around the world. About a year ago we started travelling overseas and overland, working along the way in volunteering projects and keeping a westwards...

We are fast approaching the time of the year for WellFound to take part in the Big Give Challenge. The Big Give Christmas Challenge initiative is the UK’s biggest match funding campaign, which helps charities like WellFound...

Dr Antony Kingsley visited Guinea Bissau from April 14th to 29th. The purpose was to evaluate the work conducted over the past 24 months, seek feedback from the communities and staff, identify new partners, and establish new...

We are almost at the end of another year and, as always, we are excited to be participating in the Big Give Christmas Challenge. Last year was hugely successful, despite the challenges which many of us were experiencing...

My name is Benjamin Bethell. I’m currently studying International Sales and Marketing in Copenhagen, Denmark. As an undergraduate, one of the most important experiences is doing an internship. To gain work experience and...

A short video to show the impact of our work in rural Sierra Leone.

At WellFound, we truly value sustainability; it underpins everything that we do. Many rural communities around the world are reliant on external organisations to survive. This is very dangerous as it leads to a dependence...

Recently, WellFound finished constructing a borehole in the village of Vaama, Sierra Leone. Now, 250 inhabitants have access to clean and safe water. Prior to our intervention, water-born diseases were rampant in Vaama...

Christmas 2020: a year and a Christmas like no other. Whilst we may not be able to spend this Christmas with our loved ones, we are able to connect through social media and video calling. Without the power of the internet...

We are delighted to announce that WellFound has been honoured with the National Energy Globe Award, Guinea-Bissau for 2015! Our submission entitled ‘Increasing access to safe water and...

Going into our 11th year working in Guinea Bissau, we are still managing to improve year upon year. Since April 2019 we have achieved a lot, bringing truly sustainable and meaningful change to more people than ever...

WellFound has been operating in Moyamba district in Sierra Leone for the past two years now. We are absolutely thrilled with our progress so far, although much work is still needed in this remote region. Our work 2019-2020...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

WellFound has worked in Guinea-Bissau since 2009, and worked in partnership with villagers to provide over 60 wells. We have helped the villagers improve their nutrition, sanitation, health, and gender equality...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Water. For most of us it is something we use throughout the day without even thinking about it. We wash with it. We clean our teeth with it. We cook with it. We buy it from the shops. We make beverages with it. We drink it. If we need...

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...

Today we celebrated Pancakes Day and we invited a few families and their kids to drop in for a feast. Everybody that came made the event special and the kids learnt about how people in West Africa survive with little...

WellFound was represented today at an important meeting in the Houses of Parliament in London. A Christian organisation called End Poverty 2030 was launching a new initiative based around the sustainable...

We are delighted that The Big Give have now counted the money and WellFound have received £13,705.40. This is a wonderful amount and we are very grateful for everyone who gave generously. Our CEO Dr Kingsley...

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...

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 manage to raise...

We are delighted to be part of the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2017. This is the UK’s biggest online match funding campaign and starts today, Tuesday 28th November, for one week only...

Donations to the Big Give Christmas Challenge open at 12 noon on Tuesday 28th 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 are continuing to look at three villages where we have worked in the past. This will give you an idea what we can achieve together in the “Big Give” village in Guinea-Bissau. You can read about our planned...

It’s three weeks until #givingTuesday which is when donations to the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2017 will open. We are very excited that we have been selected to participate this year. This means that all...t

We’re very excited to let you know that we have been selected to participate in the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2017, the UK’s largest match funding campaign. We will be raising money to work in a village in...

WellFound will always remain in contact with villages where we work for three years. This is to make sure that the facilities we provide continue to be maintained and used by the villages...

For several months we have shown four projects at the foot of our home page: the villages of Binhome, Bissunaga, Quedet and Tama. These are the four villages we have worked with during the dry season from...

Thank you to everyone who played at our recent Golf Day at Harleyford, and thanks also to everyone who donated prizes for the auction and raffle. Your generosity helped raise money to help people in...

24th April. We were ready and waiting for the boat at 7 – it didn’t turn up for 3 hours, which gave me time to discover Joao had bought PG tips, so we had a great brew to start the day. We also walked up to...

22nd April. A 5am start to loading up the pick-up with necessary tools, tents and food for the next 5, 6 or 7 days… let’s see! Now accustomed to four people in the back of a three seater, with air-conditioning and the road in...

19th April. We woke up with the cockerels and had just started drinking tea when giggling kids started to arrive for school. We hurried out of their classroom and munching mangoes and cashew fruit (which are dripping of...

In April 2017 we were surprised and delighted when a couple travelling in West Africa found our website, and got in touch with us. As a result of that contact, they spent two weeks with the team in Guinea-Bissau, visiting the...

Dear Friends and Supporters, When I was 75 years of age, in 2005, I founded WellFound. I discovered that there were people in this world dying through lack of water, something I could have discovered...

Last week we posted a brand new opportunity to volunteer for Operation WellFound this Easter. As a small charity in West London our headquarters in Ealing is often filled with volunteers and interns. Without their contributions...

Are you a creative? Do you like design? If the answer is yes, then we have the perfect volunteer opportunity just for you. Volunteer for Operation WellFound this Easter. The Easter holidays are just around the corner and while you...

On World Water Day 2017, Operation WellFound featured on the UK Aid website. The feature showcased a case study of some of our work in Guinea-Bissau in the specific region of Bumal. The full version of the feature can be...

Global warming and climate change are phrases we are all familiar with. Scientifically accepted and proven by over 97% of scientists, the full effect of warming temperatures are impacting the world all over. Whether it is...

We have a new address and a new website: wellfound.org.uk. The old site, operationwellfound, had become too complicated so we took the opportunity to upgrade. We want our new site to be very visual so we can convey something...

I have been fundraising for WellFound for 6 or 7 years, not very successfully. I decided that I would be more effective if I had stories with names and photos of people I had personally met. So I decided to go to Guinea Bissau to...

As we approach the end of the current programme of work funded by the UK Government International Development Budget, an independent management consultant travelled to Guinea-Bissau in January 2017 to assess the...

The human right to water and sanitation has only recently been recognised as an official human right. Its historical development can be traced back to the 1977 Mar del Plata Water Conference but it has taken over 30 years for both water...

It is at this time of the year that we thank our Lord for all that we at WellFound achieved in 2016, we thank our Trustees and supporters, our CEO and our teams at our offices in Greenford UK and in Guinea Bissau, West Africa...

In October 2016. our founder Howard Measham was invited as guest speaker at a meeting of the Railway Industry Association. He used the opportunity to talk about why he formed WellFound in 2005, and about some of the work we are now doing...

Binhome is a small village of about 500 people in rural Guinea-Bissau. It is one of four villages where we are just starting work to help the local women set up and run a market garden. On our most recent visit we saw the...

We had a fantastic day at our annual golf fundraising event, sponsored by United Rental Group, which took place at the end of last month. WellFound would like to say a huge thank you to United Rental Group for arranging the day. We could...

It could have been that many of us were still flying high from the WellFound Golf Day that occurred the day before. It could have been that we were excited for the possibility of funding another well in Guinea Bissau. Or perhaps it was...

In April 2016, some of the trustees of the charity had a chance to visit Guinea-Bissau to see for themselves what has been achieved. As we arrived on the beautiful islands off the shore of Guinea-Bissau, we were welcomed by the...

Our London Marathon runner, Miriam Drewett, has managed to raise a huge £1,300 for WellFound! “After four months of training, building up to a 20 mile run before the big day, it was exciting to finally get...

We are thrilled to announce that WellFound has received the prestigious National Energy Globe Award 2016 for the best sustainable project for our work in providing clean water and sanitation in Guinea-Bissau, one of the poorest countries...

Could you spare a few hours of your time to assist as a volunteer? WellFound have always relied on the support of volunteers; from fundraising, to office admin or even research on the ground out in Africa. We could not have achieved...

Imagine next time you turn on your taps, that instead you have to walk four kilometres for a bucket of water. That is what women and children had to do in the village of Nsumte-Quiumbe in Guinea-Bissau every day...

10 years is a long time, especially for a small charity with big aims and aspirations. Since 2005 WellFound has grown from the ideas and hopes of one individual to a thriving international, award winning charity...

We have just received these photos of the people of GoGo, Burkina Faso, making the most of their new well. This well was built with funds generated by Caritas Mondial at the ball in November last year! Thank you!

In March during Howard and Dr Kinglsey’s last trip to Guinea Bissau they visited a local school in St Vincente with our team nurse who teaches the children the importance of hygiene and washing your hands with soap...