In 2012, Every Village founders Lorena and Jonathan visited a village in Uganda where a philanthropic friend of theirs had raised money to dig a well. He knew some of the people in the village and, friend to friend, decided a well would solve a lot of their problems. “When we saw the joy on the people’s faces...they could now get water in 15 minutes instead of 3 hours. And it was clean, protecting their children and themselves from dangerous microbes.