Hand Pump Project
Helping Hands Worldwide currently is working on installing new Hand Pumps as well as is in the process of enhancing the existing old pumps to deliver water at a greater delivery head.
Helping Hands Worldwide is raising money to fund this crucial project to instal Hand Pumps to impoverished communities in the disaster affected areas through out Pakistan.
Since the beginning of the project, HelpingHands Worldwide has installed nearly 1600 hand pumps
in Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Bangladesh, providing hundreds of communities with safe and clean drinking water.
After the recent floods, many affected communities are without clean water so one of the first responses was to distribute chlorine tablets to allow families to purify water to drink. Now the race is on to provide more sustainable water supplies for flood-hit communities living in small tent cities that have sprung up on high ground.
Many communities along the river relied on open wells that have been contaminated by floodwater. Helping Hands Worldwide is working to:
- Arrange for pumps so these wells can be drained of impurities.
- To cover open wells
- Install Hand Pumps.
Lack of clean drinking water is a major problem in flood affected areas. Water-borne diseases are out of control in economically depressed rural areas because clean running water (typically provided by the municipalities), is simply not available. The only alternative is to install hand pumps or deep wells (drilled wells) to draw clean water from the ground.
A Hand Pump with your $200 donation will provide clean water to many in need.
We hope you share our view that safe drinking water has to be a basic right for every human being, and extend your support to our Hand Pump Program.
