THE DEEP WELL PROJECT

About The Deep Well Project

 Deep Well has been helping Hilton Head Islanders since 1973. Founded by Charlotte Heinrichs as a service to locals who suffered illness from drinking contaminated water from shallow wells, Deep Well has continued to serve those in need. Services now concentrate on food deliveries, emergency rent and utility assistance, providing critical prescription medicines and making housing safe and livable. Simply put, Deep Well provides emergency assistance to those in need.

Deep Well Food Pantry

 

Our Mission

 

To assist the working poor, the sick, and the disabled

in emergency situations

to improve the quality of their lives.

 

The mission of The Deep Well Project is to help those in need overcome adversity. Deep Well is a privately funded, volunteer-based, non-profit organization which streamlines a broad range of vital social services for the working poor, disabled, and infirm within the greater Hilton Head Island environs. Deep Well provides immediate and non-bureaucratic assistance, particularly when such assistance cannot be fulfilled from other sources, and also serves as a clearing house, working cooperatively with other agencies, both public and private. Its goal is to provide clients with a “hand up, not a hand out” by establishing shared responsibility, ultimately encouraging self-reliance and independence.

Deep Well strives to operate within the highest ethical standards and efficiency while also recognizing the fiduciary accountability to those who provide support to the organization.

History

The Deep Well Project was founded in 1973 by Charlotte Heinrichs, a former New York State public health nurse. Mrs. Heinrichs realized that widespread infestation of parasites in local school children were the result of too shallow water wells, whose water was contaminated by ground sewage which leeched into them.

Brushing aside bureaucratic interference at every level, Mrs. Heinrichs developed the program which brought deep water wells — parasite-free water — to native Islanders, a fifteen year undertaking which brought recognition from President Ronald Reagan, South Carolina Governors Richard Riley and Carroll Campbell, and Newsweek and Modern Maturity Magazines. Her bold, humanitarian initiatives have made a vast contribution to Hilton Head Island, and to a multitude of Islanders.

 

Board of Directors & Staff