Jacob’s Well Fight Against Poverty

Jacob’s Well hopes to break the poverty cycle by sinking fresh water wells in villages, establishing health and resource centres and providing life changing education for children from tribal villages and the slums.

	•	33 per cent of the global poor now reside in India.*
	•	In India 350-400 million people are below the poverty line.†
	•	75 per cent of India’s poor are in rural areas.‡

Jacob’s Well aims to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger through clean water, education, sustainable agriculture initiatives and skills training initiatives.

Villages are Transformed by Water

Clean water that is easily accessible in a village helps release the women to work for wages, which enables them to buy food. Clean water also enables them to grow vegetables and grains for consumption.

Lives are Empowered by Education

Jacob’s Well Foundation aims to assist the villagers by teaching them new agricultural skills, new crafts and water management techniques, introducing more profitable crops to sell, and establishing a direct connection with the market to avoid middlemen.

Through education the community develops skills to deal with immediate problems such as illiteracy, few job opportunities, little or no income, poor health and poor hygiene.

Rejoice Vocational Training Centre provides life changing education for children and adults from rural villages in India.

Sustainability Liberates Communities from Poverty

The Jacob’s Well Foundation will enable business enterprises to be set up within the community to finance development projects and will also provide income streams for the community at large. Chicken or goat farming, seeds and tools for a market garden, or a sewing machine and material, are just some of the seed businesses that can provide an income.

Communities Develop Through Infrastructure

A community health and resource centre will provide a facility for literacy and skills training along with access to timely medical attention and general healthcare. This will ensure a better quality of life and assist in lowering the infant mortality rate.

A medical centre will not only assist in improving the health of the needy within the community, it will help provide employment and, through education, ensure a better future for generations to come.

* World Bank. † World Bank. ‡ World Bank.