Sometimes you move before you understand why.

Before WHO Lives drilled thousands of wells across Africa, John and Nicci Renouard left stability, comfort, and certainty — following a quiet conviction that didn’t yet make sense.

This is the beginning of that story.

In Part 1 of this three-part series, John and Nicci Renouard — founders of WHO Lives — share the origin behind one of the most innovative water solutions in the developing world.

It started with a move that didn’t make sense.

An RV. Six kids. No plan.

Then a son sent to Kenya during political unrest.

Then exposure to water poverty that changed everything.

What followed was not a business plan.

It was obedience, adversity, resistance, and responsibility.

From a dream in the middle of the night to en ...