WellsForAll Africa, a Ghanaian-led non-profit organisation delivering sustainable clean water infrastructure to underserved rural communities across Africa, has completed its 26th borehole, bringing safe, reliable drinking water to an estimated 800 – 950 people in Mantukwa, a rural farming community in Ghana’s Ashanti Region.

The new mechanised borehole replaces the community’s reliance on unprotected streams, rivers and rainwater, which residents previously had to travel around 30 minutes to access. Women and school-aged children were among those regularly responsible for collecting water, contributing to lost time and disruption to schooling.
With the new system located within the community, the journey for some residents has been reduced to just a few minutes.

Drilled to a depth of 120 metres, the borehole uses a 1.5 HP electric submersible pump to supply a 3,000-litre overhead storage tank, providing stored and pressurised water for the community.

Water from the borehole has been independently tested and confirmed safe, with zero E. coli and zero coliform detected and tested parameters within World Health Organization limits.

“Borehole #26 means far more to Mantukwa than simply having a new piece of water infrastructure,” says Samuel Owusu-Boadi, Founder of WellsForAll.

“For years, families have depended on unsafe water sources, with children having to leave school and spend valuable time walking to collect water. Now, safe water is within minutes of their homes and school. But our responsibility doesn’t end when the water starts flowing.

We want every borehole we build to belong to the community, with local people involved in managing and maintaining it so that it continues serving families for generations. That is what sustainable access to clean water should look like.”

The US$8,792 project was fully funded by the US-based Pflaum family and dedicated to their daughter, Gracie, whose own charitable journey began when she was just 11 years old.

Moved by the needs of people around her, Gracie founded ‘A Touch of Grace’ around the belief that everyone is important and that those who are able to help others should do so. Her initiative has supported people experiencing homelessness through activities including distributing hot food and care packages.

The Mantukwa borehole extends that commitment thousands of miles to rural Ghana. A permanent plaque at the site has been dedicated to Gracie and A Touch of Grace by her family.

“We chose to support this project because we wanted our contribution to make a tangible difference in people’s everyday lives. Dedicating this borehole to our daughter Gracie felt especially fitting since it is in honor of her own hands-on outreach work, A Touch of Grace, which was feeding the homeless in our area,” says the Pflaum family.

The Wells for All mission mirrors Gracie’s own belief that everyone matters and, when you have an opportunity to help someone, you should. Now reaching across the world to a community that needed clean water is proof that kindness doesn’t stop at a border, and that a child’s conviction can ripple further than anyone expects is an amazing and lasting legacy.

To see that belief become something as permanent and important as clean water for an entire community is very special to us. Knowing that more than 800 people in Mantukwa will now have access to clean water, and that children will no longer have to miss school to make the long journey to collect water that may not be safe to drink, makes this incredibly meaningful to our family. Thank you Samuel, and the Wells for All Team, as we could not have partnered with a more impactful or forward thinking charity.”

Beyond construction, WellsForAll has worked with Mantukwa’s traditional leadership, including Chief Nana Frank Oppong Kyekyeku II, and established a community Water Management Committee to support the long-term management and maintenance of the borehole.

The committee will help oversee the water system and its maintenance arrangements, forming part of WellsForAll’s approach of combining physical infrastructure with local ownership.

” We are truly grateful that this project has successfully eliminated the 30 minute journey previously required to collect water that was not safe for consumption,” says Chief Nana Frank Oppong Kyekyeku II.

“The school children, farmers, and women in our community are all delighted by this transformation. We have experienced unfulfilled promises in the past, so the commitment shown by WellsForAll has truly exceeded our expectations.

May the Pflaum family be blessed for their generous gesture toward people they have never met. The names on the plaque will be cherished by every member of our community forever.”

Borehole #26 also marks the first official water project completed since the initiative evolved into WellsForAll Africa, a registered non-profit organisation.
Between 2022 and 2025, WellsForAll raised and deployed approximately US$191,000 towards clean-water infrastructure. With the completion of Mantukwa, the organisation has now delivered 26 community water points benefiting more than 20,000 people across rural Ghana, principally in the Ashanti and Northern Regions.

WellsForAll’s next planned borehole is in Buoyem in Ghana’s Bono East Region, while more than 50 communities are currently on its waiting list for clean-water infrastructure.