Saves Lives with clean water in village India

Hi

Yes it’s me again, Neelam the senior Nurse on People First’s community health project.

I hope this report finds you and your family well.

It gives me great pleasure to tell you all we have been able to install our first water pump due the generosity of Ellen and friends in the Netherlands. What a happy occasion it was as you can see from the photographs.

There is no greater single contributor to health than clean water.

The pumps we install are deep water, we check the quality regularly and they don’t dry up in the summer.  

The benefits to the villagers cannot be overstated.

Here’s what one village women said…

"Before we had this pump we had to walk over one kilometre and carry it on our heads in the burning heat of summer and cold of winter. It was not so clean, my children often got ill, we could not afford always to boil it properly, we did not have the fuel.

But now right here in my village we have clean pure water I cannot thank you enough, you have transformed our lives".

It only remains for me to extend my thanks and if you know of friends or family who might consider donating may I ask you to give on 29^th December when your donation could be doubled.  Imagine you give $25 and it becomes $50 .

Twice the value and impact. Twice the good!

With good wishes to you all,

Neelam

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Hi Everybody!

Welcome to the first update of our deep water pump appeal.

The rains have come it is the great Indian monsoon and the rains this year have been better than the previous few years which is great news for everyone.

Finding a really good source of deep clean water away from the rivers is quite a task. We want to thank Ellen and her friends in the Netherlands for donating enough to start boring for the first pump in the village Dadpur, a desperately poor community where a source of new clean water will bring huge benefits to the whole community especially to the women who have to fetch it and the children to whom a source of good clean water (we test it thoroughly) is so important.

After several false dry starts we are so happy to report we have now hit a deep underground reservoir of clean healthy water and the first pump should be up and running within the next month so please look out for the photos on our next GlobalGiving update and our Facebook page.

Here is what Divya a village woman (name changed) with four children has to say,

“Now we have to walk so far to fetch drinkable water, well even that water is not so clean. The burden the daily burden of carrying the pots on our heads especially in the summer is almost unbearable, when we saw the water finally gushing out from the ground right in our village we cried with joy, thank you so much for helping all of us”

Divya

 Thank you again 

$750 will provide a good source of clean water for a whole village

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