Water for Sumba - a Documentary Film

For more information, and to contribute, please go to: www.indiegogo.com/Water-for-Sumba/x/2215977
Hello, this is Andre Graff. Seven years ago I decided to change my life and move from France to a small village on the remote island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia.
The women and children in Sumba spend many hours each day fetching water from wells and water holes down in the valleys. They carry it in pots, buckets and jerry cans on their heads, along steep and dangerous paths up to their villages high on the hills, and they repeat this several times a day.
I knew I simply had to do something to help these poor people in my village, and in other places around the island and on neighbouring Savu. So I started building wells where there were none, and have so far installed 27 of them.
Then I decided to install pipelines that carry the water up the hills to the villages, with pumps that operate exclusively on solar power, and tanks for storage. There is no electricity in these areas, and I don't want to introduce oil-powered generators that ruin the environment. I now have three such eco-friendly water distribution systems up and running, and they serve thousands of people.
So far I have been using my own modest savings, along with some contributions from a number of friends and associates, to pay for these projects. But this means I have only been able to help a limited number of people get access to water. So, in order to go further and allow many more communities to benefit from these sustainable projects, I am now asking for your help.
The well-known film maker Douchan Gersi, who made the video above, is interested in working on a 52 minute documentary about my work in Sumba. However, he needs money to pay for travelling to Sumba to shoot footage, and then do all the necessary production work. This movie will be used to promote my activities and raise more money to finance more of these environmentally conscious water projects in eastern Indonesia.
To learn more about my water projects in Sumba, and to make a contribution to this campaign, please go to: www.indiegogo.com/Water-for-Sumba/x/2215977 Don't forget to check back often as there will be regular updates on the campaign page.
PS - If it turns out we raise more money than we need to make the documentary, I will of course use the excess to build more wells in remote areas.

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