By Huma Sadaf | Chairperson
In the first week of the March 2020, ARTS Foundation installed 5 hand pumps in Jhando Khan Laghari, Fateh Muhammad Panhwar and Jani Kapri, Mirprukhas. At all five locations there was a need to stretch canal pipes from nearby areas because of the lack of underground drinking water availability.
In these villages there was a serious issue regarding the availability of drinking water. The habitats in these regions had several diseases caused by the pollution of ponds and streams. This meant that the water that was available to drink was also polluted. The population of this area were also struggling with financial burdens of purchasing water, as well as the physical burden of fetching drinking water from distant areas.
A total of 1013 families will benefit from the installation of these wells. The benefits are numerous, including increased leisure time for women and girls, improved health due to higher cleanliness and food hygiene and financial benefits due to there being no need to purchase water.
In these villages have many under-privileged people belonging to religious minority as tenants who were living without the basic human right of water. They could not afford to install pumps themselves to access drinking water and therefore these village communities were helped by ARTS Foundation.
Shanti Bai, due to lack of clean water, we were forced to drink contaminated water from a small toba (pond) where rain water was collected and it was the only existing water source in this area. ARTS Foundation team came in our area and provided us the facility of community hand pump so we are very thankful to the ARTS Foundation and GlobalGiving for this. Now the lives of our children are safe. We are thankful to the Philanthropist’s for hand pumps as there was serious shortage of clean drinking water. We were bound to drink polluted water from a nearby small pond which was only source of water in our area. I worried about my young children as they were getting ill due the use of contaminated water of pond. Access to clean water through newly installed hand pump prevented deadly water-borne diseases in our area and I feel highly satisfied regarding my children’s health and for this I am very grateful to ARTS Foundation, GlobalGiving and Philanthropists living around the world, says Jamna, another inhabitant of the area.
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