Civil turmoil, dense forests and under-developed infrastructure blanket a majority of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Add to that a lack of clean drinking water, and daily life in many of the region’s isolated communities is an absolute battle. The difficulty of providing clean water to these rural citizens is compounded by the challenge of finding equipment that’s powerful enough to drill through the region’s dense basalt rock, yet portable enough to transport over the rough terrain and unmaintained roads.
Roland Bergeron, founder of Water of Life International, has made it his life’s work to drill wells in these rural villages, where a lack of clean water aids the spread of diseases and results in tens of thousands of deaths each year.