Donating for Water - Giving Life to Humanity

June 2022 torrential rains in district Mirpurkhas has adversely been affected as more than 925,880 persons and 185,176 families including displacement of 166,864 women and 124,199 children, the women and children are worst affected of the flood. Like other thousands of villages, our village Deen Muhammad located in Taluka Sindhri has been badly affected by the flood. It’s sixth month but we could not get sufficient humanitarians support yet, in particular with regard to re-building our homes and re-setting of water sources specially hand pups as these have been badly hit as still hand pumps are surrounded by the water and destroyed its chambers too.

We the residents of village Deen Muhammad are very thankful to ARTS Foundation’s team for being first as they paid a visit to our village and meet with flood 2022 affected people. They assessed the community needs and taken photos in order to extend humanitarian support.  The team made a commitment to repair the handpump and re-build the chamber of the hand pump as it will help to maintain hygiene around the hand pump. The work will be started in third week of January 2023.

Therefore, we are thankful to the Philanthropist’s for their generous support through donating to ARTS Foundation through GlobalGiving for making possible drinking water in a flood 2022 affected village.

I am Neha of age 21 years, married and having 2 kids living in a joint family with in laws father and mother as well as one sister-in-law. My both in laws are of age 59 and 60 as well as sister-in-law of age 13 years. The income of my family is too much low because just my husband is the only earning person and he is a daily wage laborer at a vegetable stall. This is very much difficult for a person to feed 7 members family in which 2 kids and 2 old age persons are there. Because, the kids and old age persons needs more care and expenses in particular the expenses of medicines for both ages. Being a woman and daughter in law, it’s my sole responsibility to look after chores of the home like bring wood for fire, fetch water, cook food and serve to family. Because, my husband uses to go to stall early morning and he returns late, as a daily wage laborer, its hard to avail off because in case off there is no wage that day. I wanted to contribute to increase income of our family as I am a tailor but due to distance of drinking water which normally takes 30 minutes for one side and I have to bring drinking water two times in a day i.e. morning and evening. So, this task only needs at least 2 hours in a day and brings much tired ness too. Therefore, I remained unable to spare time, stich clothes and earn for my family. But thanks to Philanthropists, GlobalGiving and ARTS Foundation as they installed a handpump in our village village Juma Khan located in Taluka Kot Ghulam Muhammad district Mirpurkhas in Sindh province of Pakistan. Basically, this hand pump is installed with extension by bringing drinkable water from one and half kilometer, the primary source of water is canal and the bore been made there. This hand pump has saved my 2 hours per day and energy. So, I am able to stitch at least 2 dresses and earning at least Rs.400/day. Therefore, this earning has made a lot of things easy for us.

In total more than 13 households and 100 humans are getting benefit by saving their time and energy.

We are thankful to the Philanthropist’s for their generous support through donating their money and ARTS Foundation for choosing our village and installing here a hand pump.