In January 1998, six-year-old Ryan Hreljac heard his grade one teacher, Mrs. Prest, explain that people were getting sick and even dying because they had no clean water. Some walked for hours just to get dirty water. Ryan only had to walk ten steps to the drinking fountain. He went home and begged his parents to help. They let him do extra chores, and he worked for four months to earn $70, the amount he thought would build a well. Then he learned a well in Uganda would cost $2,000. He did not quit. He spoke to anyone who would listen, and his first well was built at Angolo Primary School in Uganda. That little project became Ryan’s Well Foundation.
