The idea came to me while I was standing in the village of Namasujju.

It had been 5 years since Taylor and I last played together.  We still had a few hundred CDs of our last project sitting in storage collecting dust, and neither of us was really playing out much.  It occurred to me that if we were to somehow sell those things out, we’d probably make $5000-6000… coincidentally, the amount necessary to install a well in central Uganda.

Only 6 months earlier, Namasujju had no well.  The people there, many of them children, would either walk miles for clean water or simply make do with the filthy sources nearby – often not even taking the time to boil what they collected.  The children have swollen bellies because of water-borne parasites.  However, we’ve partnered with Safeworld Nexus to change that.  These pictures and video show the first of 8 wells that we have promised to the villages of Luwero.

Taylor and I have decided to donate all proceeds from playing our music to digging these wells.  Every penny of every CD goes straight to putting another well in Luwero, giving thousands of lives a precious resource that we all too often take for granted.

So join us.  Buy a CD.  Book a show.  Make a donation.  Sign up with Safeworld Nexus and actually go to Uganda with us.  The possibilities are endless – we’re just using what we know to do what we can.

                                                                                                -  Dane