Rotary Club of Fishers Charity Ball Mission

Bringing water to 150,000+ people in villages in western Africa.

About Water Is Life

This year the Fishers Rotary WaterIsLife Project celebrates our 12th anniversary – it’s been over a decade of changing lives for the better. We have completed the construction of 155+ wells over this time frame, and are very proud to report that ALL 155+ wells are still in service in nearly 155 communities across Sierra Leone. The size of these communities total to over 150,000 people; and with the addition of the surrounding areas who visit the wells, our friends in Sierra Leone estimate we are likely serving in excess of 300,000 people with fresh sanitary water.

Fishers Rotary and the Rotarians of Freetown have had the honor of applying for and receiving 5 competitive grants from The Rotary Foundation, and we are currently planning and funding what we plan to be our largest Grant yet. Rotary Foundation Grants provide matching dollars to go along with the local fundraising we do each year at our annual event – The WaterIsLife Charity Ball. To date, over the last decade, we have raised – including matching funds from the foundation – over $1,000,000 to provide clean drinking water to rural villages in Sierra Leone.

Thanks to your generosity and support over the years we are serving clean lifesaving water to 2% of Sierra Leone’s total population – this means together we have literally saved 100’s perhaps 1,000’s of lives each year.