Safe water for thousands...

A broken borehole pump in rural Malawi is a disaster for the whole area. Stressed water supply brings all sorts of problems to villagers apart from the obvious shortage for drinking, cooking and bathing.

Having to walk to alternative sources many times each day is tiring and time consuming so children are late for school, fieldwork left, livestock ignored, and the general level of basic hygiene reduced. Therefore, education, food production, and health are all at risk.

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To help, during this month we’ve repaired 6 broken pumps in remote rural areas, where thousands of villagers were seriously at risk of water-borne disease.

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One of the pumps was near a huge Primary School so students had to bring water from home to drink during the day or staff sent girls to fetch water from another village, putting them at risk of abuse as well as missing education.

Others had no choice but to resort to potentially polluted rivers or shallow wells—dangerous, and particularly challenging for the frail, elderly or sick.

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So the restoration of local water supplies brought relief and great joy to over 4,500  transformed lives!

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