Better Water
Better Energy
Better Life

We give people a lifeline to better lives by working with them to solve their basic clean water and energy needs.

Better water

320 MILLION people in Sub-Saharan Africa lack access to clean water.

The consequences are devastating: over 300,000 children die each year due to water-borne disease and over 40 billion woman-hours per year are wasted on the chore of fetching water.

Lifeline is helping communities to solve this crisis by partnering with them, first, in the construction of fresh water wells and, second, in the operation of a preventative maintenance system which, for a modest fee, can ensure the functionality of their water infrastructure each and every day for decades to come.

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Better Energy

140+ MILLION households across Sub-Saharan Africa cook with wood-fuel over an open fire.

This form of cooking takes 600,000 lives a year due to exposure to toxic smoke, consumes about 100 billion woman-hours a year in wood collection, and generates as many as 600 million metric tons annually in CO2 emissions.

Lifeline has been driving market-based change in the cooking methods that creates these problems through the development, production and sale of highly efficient stove products that dramatically reduce reliance on wood-fuels and that literally everyone can afford.

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Better Life

Lifeline is having a profound Impact

25+ Million

Hours per year saved
collecting water and wood

1.6 Million

Fewer tons of
CO2 released

270,000

Individuals drinking
clean water.

Igniting The Economic Might Of The African Woman

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Lifeline maximizes its impact by forging alliances with international agencies, local and national government, business entities, private foundations and non-governmental organizations who help us design, develop, implement and sustain our life-enhancing activities. Interested in joining us?

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Children enjoy food at God Helps Uganda’s orphanage  
May 5, 2022

How Clean Cooking Saves Time, Money, and Health for Two Local Charities

Florence Apio Omach loves her job as a head cook at charity organization God Helps Uganda, but for five years, her job put her at risk. She suffered constant headaches, and her chronic nasal blockage was being made worse by frequent toxic smoke inhalation from using a three-stone fire.
Lifeline And Charity: Water Improve Health And Schooling In Rural Uganda
April 7, 2022

Lifeline And Charity: Water Improve Health And Schooling In Rural Uganda

In 2020, Lifeline and charity: water formed a partnership to improve universal access to clean water in Apac and Kwania districts of Uganda. Through this partnership, Lifeline was awarded a grant in 2021 to fund the construction and rehabilitation of 49 boreholes with handpumps, and to provide new latrines to four schools.
March 11, 2022

Empowering Refugee Entrepreneurs With Reliable, Affordable Access to Electricity

‘What would you do if you had reliable, affordable access to electricity?’ This is the question that was asked to entrepreneurs in Kiryandongo refugee settlement of Uganda during the initial assessment of Power-Blox.
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