The project's founders say they have established medical clinics, improved agricultural practices and built 56 wells in South Sudan since 2008.
With the conflict in Khartoum, the group says they now want to build even more wells in the country as more South Sudan population grows with refugees.
“To fight starvation and malnutrition, it’s an amazing opportunity to do good,” Hickel said. “We find ourself in the right place at the right time. There’s been wars, we’ve worked right through it.”“That country, since 1955, has gone through three civil wars with very few years in between,” he said. “It’s just devastated that country.”
“If what we can do to help is collectively bring clean water to refugees, that’s going to help and that’s actually going to lift us up to a point, lift the world up to a point that is better than it was before we tried to help it,” Hardesty said. “This is like one more domino that is fallen that is pushing the entire region to having a humanitarian crisis beyond anything that we could have considered two weeks ago,” Hardesty said. “It has that potential.”“We’re going to do some very intense fundraising to drill more wells,” Hickel said. “Each well costs about $15,000 to put in, even in the flood season where we’re at now. We elevate those wells on platforms so the wells are functioning year-round even in flooded waters.
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