Current Projects

One Million Wells Started With the Vision of One Person

One Million Wells started with the vision of one person, and is currently assisting with other essential needs in areas that need help the most. One Million Wells tirelessly fundraises to help provide water and other life changing necessities like shelter and education.

100% of your donations go directly to support our current missions, like Shelter & Care, More Precious Than Pearls, the Unitas Orphanage in Tanzania, and the Transform the Needy Child Orphanage. Learn more about what we are helping with on this page, and check back often for updates on what a difference your donation makes in the life of a child

Shelter & Care: A Legacy of Love

Our dear friend Jerry Harmon—a passionate supporter, a quadriplegic, and a soul who saw with incredible clarity—discovered a small orphanage in Uganda. He couldn’t walk, but his compassion carried him across oceans. He urged our Vice President, Jim, to visit the children of Transform the Needy Child (TTNC) while our team was in Uganda for a water well drilling mission in 2022. We knew we couldn’t just walk away.

Transform the Needy Child Orphanage

Currently the children have no sleeping facilities, no running water, no privacy, no sanitary supplies, no security, and are vulnerable to the risks of kidnapping and child trafficking on a daily basis. One Millions Wells broke ground on a new, life-changing facility in April 2025.

Unitas Orphanage in Tanzania

The founder of this orphanage is Father Pascal Mbepera, a priest under the order of the Vincentians. He started UNITAS (which means unity in Latin) orphanage in 2007 of his own accord after seeing young children starving in the streets. Since he is not under a diocese, he has done all the work and fundraising over the years himself.

More Precious Than Pearls

More Precious Than Pearls is a non-profit organization that aims to empower women and girls to create their own futures, by providing them with educational tools on reproductive health, self-awareness, nutrition, and much more. Currently, the dropout rate of high school girls is more than half and getting worse as time goes on.

Updates, Information, and More Projects We're Currently Working On:

2025 African Well Update

The Life-Changing Difference Donors and Volunteers Made in 2025 Here are some joyous moments and updates from our teams, donors, and volunteers on African Wells in 2025. From St. Augustine School in Zirobwe, Uganda celebrating the 1st well with handpump drilled...

Giving Tuesday 2025

This Giving Tuesday… YOU are the difference. When I look at these photos, I see more than projects — I see lives transformed. In this short 27 second video, you will see: A women-led drilling team breaking generational barriers A garden at TTNC that will feed...

The Story of Transform the Needy Child – As Told by John Mwase

My name is John. I was born and raised in Kiige, a small, poor village in Uganda—one of 18 children in a family that worked hard for every meal and every opportunity. My father, though he never finished school, was a very smart and humble man. What he lacked in money,...

Our Team Has Drilled 475 Wells in India

Please help us congratulate our team in India on their 475th well drilled since March 2020! This well is at 64 feet. These are agricultural wells that will allow farmers to grow more crops as well as extra growing seasons so they can feed more people and have a better...

Giving Tuesday 2023

What Difference Does Clean Water Make? On this GivingTuesday as you search for your way to do good today and possibly donate, we would love for you to see the good your donations have accomplished for those without the most basic right and necessity WATER....

Training and Well Drilling Update

Well Drilling Update for November 2023 As RC is training new teams in Kenya our teams in Uganda continue to drill. And our team in India just finished their 458th well at 75 feet deep yesterday! This team was trained in March 2020 and is looking for a sponsor,...