Ghana Non-Profit WellsForAll Uses USDT and Hive Blockchain to Fund $8.8K Clean Water Project

TL;DR

• Ghanaian non-profit WellsForAll Africa completed its 26th clean-water borehole project in Mantukwa, serving about 950 residents.
• ​The $8,792 project was funded via on-chain USDT stablecoin transfers from a US-based private donor, the Pflaum Family.
• ​All expenditures, water safety test results, and construction metrics were recorded and verified on the public Hive blockchain.  
• ​This hybrid model demonstrates how Web3 technology and stablecoins can bring radical transparency to private international development aid.

Ghanaian non-profit WellsForAll Africa has completed its 26th clean water borehole project in Mantukwa, a farming community in Ghana’s Ashanti region.

The borehole will provide safe drinking water to an estimated 950 people and is the non-profit’s first project funded entirely by a private donor.

Donations for the project, which cost $8,792, came via USDT from a US-based family, recognised simply as the Pflaum Family. 

Project Deliverables and Technical Overview

According to information shared with Crypto Africa News, the total project cost was $8,792. Funds for the project were sent on-chain via USDT transfers: $500 in April and the remaining $8,292 in September.

$7,850 of the funds went towards construction, and $942 was allocated to disclosed 12% coordination costs. Drilling for the 26th borehole reached 120 metres, with the main aquifer at about 35 metres.

A1.5 HP submersible pump, installed at 80 metres, feeds a 3,000-litre overhead storage tank, supplying pressurised water to the village. WellsForAll says independent lab testing found no E. coli or coliform, meeting established WHO safety guidelines. 

To ensure long-term infrastructure maintenance, local leaders in the Mantukwa community established a dedicated community water management committee. The project replaces local reliance on unprotected rivers, streams, and rainwater, cutting the time taken to access water from 30-minute treks to just a few minutes.

The project’s record is publicly available and accessible through WellsForAll’s Hive blockchain presence. 

Hybrid Funding and Transparency Models in Web3 Philanthropy

Between 2022 and 2025, WellsForAll raised and deployed approximately $191,000 to construct its first 25 boreholes. WellsForAll relied on community grants from the Decentralised Hive Fund (DHF). Its 26th borehole, the first project since formally registering as “WellsForAll Africa”, bridges traditional private philanthropy with blockchain-powered accountability.

Samuel Owusu-Boadi, Founder of WellsForAll, frames it as an extension of the previous model. “Borehole 26 is not a move away from Hive or the DHF. It shows how the model can grow. Hive helped us prove that blockchain can fund real infrastructure transparently, and now we are applying those same principles of openness and accountability to private philanthropy.” 

He adds, “By bringing new sources of funding to the model while continuing to document and verify our work on-chain, we can reach more communities without losing the transparency that WellsForAll was built on.” 

Rather than requiring non-crypto donors to navigate decentralised governance or token voting, WellsForAll accepted donations, in this case, via the USDT stablecoin while still providing blockchain transparency. 

Operational information such as project budget, expenditure, delivery information, construction progress, GPS information, photographs, water testing and completion are all publicly available on-chain. 

Samuel says, “A transaction on-chain can show where funding has moved, but the real measure of success is whether that funding results in clean water flowing for a community. For us, verification has to connect the digital record with measurable outcomes on the ground, from construction and water quality testing to the number of people who can now access safe water.” 

This approach resolves a major challenge in international development aid: donor scepticism regarding overhead costs and capital misallocation. The Pflaum family valued the transparency. “As donors, transparency was incredibly important to us. We didn’t simply want to contribute and hope that it reached the people it was intended to help.” 

“With WellsForAll, we have been able to follow the project from the funding stage through to construction, receive updates directly from the ground, and see the difference our contribution is making in Mantukwa. Knowing that the funding and the project activity can also be independently verified on the blockchain gives us an additional level of confidence and accountability. It has made us feel connected to the project and, most importantly, to the community our family wanted to support.”

Blockchain is solving real problems across Africa.

Across Africa, Web3 solutions are increasingly used to solve trust and utility problems across the continent. 

Kenya recently used the Avalanche blockchain to help combat institutional fraud and certificate forgery. Immutable ledger technology will now authenticate academic credentials. 

uFarmX is demonstrating, via its platform, how on-chain data logging can help build verifiable credit histories. This move has helped unlock over $6.8 million in agritech financing for smallholder farmers who would’ve been locked out of traditional credit systems because they lack collateral. 

Pilot initiatives like AdaptVote are testing whether decentralised AI-enhanced voting frameworks can reduce voter dispute friction and build trust in public electoral processes. 

By demonstrating that public ledgers can verify real-world outcomes, whether delivering safe drinking water in Ghana, issuing loans to farmers, or securing university degrees, these real-world deployments show how decentralised technology is providing practical administrative infrastructure across the continent.

With over 50 Ghanaian communities on its waiting list and Borehole #27 planned for Buoyem, WellsForAll’s hybrid verification model offers a scalable blueprint for transparent development aid.