Grace Mensah
Chief executive
About us
Help that lasts
Since 1998 we have worked with local people to build what they will run themselves: wells, schools, clinics and community kitchens.
1998our first well
Our story
One well, one village
Benevora began when a retired engineer and a nurse raised money for a single well in Turkana. The village still runs it. Twenty-seven years later, we follow the same rule: listen first, build together, check for five years.
- Forty local partners
- Projects in nine countries
- 600 volunteers at home
- Audited every year
- People reached last year
- 1.2M
- Of every dollar on programmes
- 84%
- New water points in 2025
- 214
- Supporters who gave
- 31,000
How we work
What you can count on
Local partners
Every project is run with people who live there and will keep it going.
Open books
Our accounts are audited every year and published in full.
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Thanks you can see
Photos and updates from the projects you fund, twice a year.
52%Water, health and emergencies
Where the money goes
Every dollar, accounted for
$4.2Mspent on our mission in 2025
- Water, health and emergencies$2.18M52%
- Education and children$924K22%
- Raising the next dollar$462K11%
- Environment and local work$420K10%
- Running the charity$210K5%
Figures from our audited accounts for 2025.
Annual reportsThe team
Staff and trustees
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