Clean Water Project

Water is considered as the most important and valuable blessing of Allah on the earth. Water is essential for human beings to survive and develop.

Safe Water is one of the basic human needs, but is a limited and precious resource. Safe water is considered as an undisputed determinant of health. About 80% of the diseases and equivalent percentage of child deaths are attributed to water borne diseases. About 1200 million people of the world are deprived of safe drinking water. Without addressing one of the largest causes of disease burden, the public health status cannot be improved in developing countries.

Many women and young girls in rural areas in Sub-Saharan African and other parts of the world must trek as much as six miles everyday to retrieve water for their families. Due to this manual labor, such women and children are prevented from pursuing an education, maintaining their households or earning additional income.
Contaminated water is one the main reasons of serious diseases in adults and deaths in children under age of five in the poor countries. Every day about 25000 people (most of the children) are dieing as a result of contaminated water usage. Recently 20 countries of the world are severely having shortage of safe drinking water and if this situation continues further 30 countries will be added in this list up to 2020.
It is the need of time for the world to make arrangements to have access to safe water by eliminating pollution and fatal factors from the water.

Helping Hands’ safe water project
Helping Hands aims;

• To improve the access and quality of drinking water by providing water purification plants to the communities.
• Organization has installed more than 1600 hand pumps in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, India and Africa to provide safe and clean drinking water to the unprivileged communities.
• Helping Hands is of the view that access to safe drinking water is not only a basic need and precondition for a healthy life but it is also a human right and ensuring universal access to safe drinking water is considered as one of the most important objectives of any social policy which is the primary responsibility of State governments.
• Our water project aims to provide safe drinking water and to help reduce the number of facilities and diseases resulting from exposure to contaminated water.

Our project on water has been working to improve the accessibility of safe drinking water for the unprivileged people both in rural and urban settings.

In desert areas women & young girls have to spend 3 to 4 hours per day in collecting water for their families from remote areas. In developing countries especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia lack of safe drinking water supply and difficulty in accessing water is a great hazard and vulnerability. Water is the lifeblood of a community, when water is unsafe to drink, the entire community suffers. Helping Hands is making its utmost efforts and using its available resources in the best possible way to provide safe drinking water to the water stressed countries and communities of the developing world.