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PlayPumps: Bringing Water to Children in Africa

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PlayPumps: Bringing Water to Children in Africa

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Summary

We will bring clean drinking water to children in Africa via the PlayPump water system (a merry-go-round connected to a water pump), other safe water solutions and associated programmatic activities. read updates from the field

This project is no longer accepting donations.

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

In Africa, women and girls spend as much as three hours a day fetching water. Over 50 percent of Africans in rural areas don’t have access to clean water. This pattern is replicated in schools; it is often girls who are sent to fetch water, taking time away from their studies and playtime. Making clean water available closer to homes and schools significantly increases the time that mothers have available to care for their children, girls have for school, and also reduces water-borne illnesses.

Activities

We are working with governments, foundations and companies to donate and install PlayPump systems throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, which will bring clean water to millions of people people over the next several years.

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

Resources

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

With a PlayPump system, communities will be able to reduce water-borne diseases; reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS through public awareness messaging; enhance access to education, especially for girls; and provide access to play equipment.

Project Message

The aim is to bring water and sanitation to all our schools, and PlayPump {water systems} are an important step in that direction.
- Aires Aly, Minister of Education and Culture, Mozambique

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Shudine Covel
Program Coordinator
1717 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
United States
202-292-1775
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

PlayPumps International
1717 Rhode Island Avenue Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
United States
202-292-1775
http://www.playpumps.org/

Learn more about PlayPumps International and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Mozambique and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Mozambique, read the Human Development Report on Mozambique or the Wikipedia entry for Mozambique.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 25, 2006

Latest Update from the Field

An Update from PPI

By PlayPumps International - Staff, November 02, 2009 02:11 PM

Thank you so much for helping to bring water to children in Africa. I’m pleased to share with you some exciting new developments relating to this project.

Thanks to your support, PlayPumps are currently bringing play opportunities and improved access to safe water to hundreds of communities and schools. In the three years since we started this project, our efforts have helped increase awareness of water poverty in Africa and have helped spark a number of new play-related water technologies.
Over the last two years, we have installed more than 30 PlayPump systems in the Maputo and Gaza Provinces in Mozambique, serving dozens of communities and schools. At the same time, we have learned that PlayPumps, like other water solutions, are best offered as part of a broad portfolio of technologies – with significant community choice and support, and sustainable service delivery. We have also learned that delivering safe water is humbling work, and that ongoing operations and maintenance is a challenge for most players involved in the delivery of solutions. We are continuing to innovate to find models that can ensure sustainability. As part of those efforts, PlayPumps International has recently teamed up with Water For People, an organization that has the ability to include PlayPumps in a portfolio of water solutions it provides.

Water For People, will now be responsible for implementing the pumps you have helped us fund. As part of our agreement with Water For People, we will be moving out of Mozambique, focusing our efforts going forward on Malawi. Because we are switching the focus of this project, some of the funds you have contributed may instead be used in Malawi, where Water for People will begin to implement PlayPumps as part of a broader portfolio of solutions.

This new arrangement offers an exciting opportunity to apply the lessons we have learned, maximize the benefits of our inventory of PlayPumps, and promote innovative solutions to ensuring sustainable supplies of water in rural Africa.

Thank you for sharing our passion for addressing global water poverty and for your support. If you would like to learn more, please read the statement from the CEO of PlayPumps International.

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