Gender Equality India Project #16802

Access to Water for 500 Rural Indian Families

by RED International

Project Report | Nov 21, 2017
Rolling Forwards! - Transfer of the WaterWheel Project as RED International closes

By Andrew Sinclair | Development Director

Keep the WaterWheels Rolling with DFN

RED International will cease operations from the end of 2017. However, our sister organisation Dalit Freedom Network (DFN) in the USA are in now process of joining GlobalGiving. You can support them in that process here New WaterWheel Project page

DFN also support the work of our partner in India, OMIF. All RED International's India connected projects with GlobalGiving are transferring over to DFN.

For more information regarding RED International's closure please see this link - Important Announcement

DFN have updated the WaterWheel project as they seek to secure a permanent place with GlobalGiving. They need to raise at least $5,000 for the WaterWheel Project from 40 unique donors by the 31^st December 2017. Donations can be made at this link from next Tuesday 28^th November 2017. New WaterWheel Project page

We are incredibly grateful for the support you have given to the WaterWheel project in India over the last three years enabling more than 600 families to have access to a WaterWheel to help them with their daily water needs.

As RED International closes I would like to invite you to help us ensure that this project can continue delivering WaterWheels to families in Rural India in 2018.

Please consider donating to the new DFN WaterWheel project page to help relaunch the project under DFN in the USA. If everyone who has supported the WaterWheel project so far gave £10 or $10 through the new project page that would go a long way in helping DFN secure their place with GlobalGiving. This would also enable our partner in India to improve access to water for more families in rural India. Donations can be made from Tuesday 28^th November 2017 at the link below.

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/access-to-water-for-500-rural-indian-families/

Please also remember to share about the project with your friends, family and those you relate to on social media. Help DFN get more families Rolling with a WaterWheel in India in 2018.

RED International owes the greatest debt of gratitude to all those individuals and organisations who have supported projects over the last 12 years through donations and sponsored events. The funds which have been given to support many different projects have made a lasting impact, transforming lives and communities among the poor and marginalised. RED International and our partners want to thank all those who have joined with us to make this possible.

Thank you again for your faithful support of this project through RED International. Please continue to support the project through DFN as they seek to raise at least $5,000 for the WaterWheel Project from 40 unique donors before the 31^st December 2017. You can support the project here New WaterWheel Donation page

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Oct 6, 2017
Simple machines with powerful results

By Andrew Sinclair | Development Director

A long road made shorter

OMIF with the help of Red International helped 675 women in drought-ravaged areas of arid regions of Rajasthan, Maharashtra and West Bengal, over two years. These women used to carry water for their domestic use from the source to their homes in water pots holding them over their heads or shoulders or hips. OMIF and Red International successfully shifted such weights of water loads from the physical bodies of these women to their WaterWheels which are water barrels in the form of hollow wheels that accommodate water and facilitate moving them like a cart, as shown in the pictures below.

These simple machines have transformed lives and communities.

Rutuja* lives with her family of six people in one of the driest desert regions of Rajasthan state. Till she received one of the WaterWheels, she used to be bear the load of carrying water on her body as if she was one of the farm animals meant to carry cargo. It’s hard to imagine the ordeal Rutuja was going through trying to meet the requirements of water for family before she got her WaterWheel. She had to make sure that her family had enough water for all their washing, and bathing requirements. If it was through water pots like before, she had to make a few trips up to the water source and back to her home carrying at least two water pots each of 10 to 15 litres. Each such trip covered four to five miles. The glee that came to Rutuja and her family when they were blessed with this simple but effective machine, only they can tell.

Where ever we distributed the WaterWheel, the story we heard is the similarity that the day-to-day life of women is full of tedious household routines. The women, homemaker of a family, get to work right from daybreak and would only rest her aching back close to midnight. We are very happy to help these women with this simple innovation.

Thank you so much for your partnership in transforming these women’s lives. Please continue to share this simple but powerful way to help communities with your friends.

*name changed

WaterWheel distribution in West Bengal

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Jul 7, 2017
A Little Goes A Long Way

By Andrew Sinclair | Development Director

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