Help Malawi communities get water and sanitation

Summary

Improve health for rural communities through water and sanitation provision, food security with nutrition gardens and trees. Pump Aid aims to reach 275 households in Mzimba district, northern Malawi. progress report read updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of £6,616 was raised for this project.

Received £6,616 from 66 donations from people around the world like:

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Pump Aid works with rural communities in Malawi. Malawi is among the world’s poorest countries ranked in the bottom 10% in the Human Development Index. An ongoing national water point mapping project, indicates that only 57% of the rural population have access to safe water, for sanitation it is as low as 15%. As a result water-related diseases, including cholera and typhoid, are common.

Activities

At Pump Aid we believe that an integrated approach to the provision of water, sanitation and nutrition is vital if health benefits are to be maximised.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £6,616

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled £6,616. The original project funding goal was £8,751.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Clean water - Pumps are built near homesteads, saving people over 5 hours each day collecting water. This allows children, particularly girls to attend school. Access to clean water and sanitation alleviates suffering from water-borne diseases.

Project Message

We now have a clean place to go to the toilet, we are healthy and we no longer have to go in the bush, we have privacy. Thank you.
- Kowama, 63 years old, Malawi, Beneficiary

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Marianne Rowley,
Staff Member
32-36 Loman street
London, SE1 0EH
United Kingdom
0207 922 7992
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Project Sponsor

Marianne Rowley

Organisation

PUMP AID
32-36 Loman Street
London, London SE1 0EH
United Kingdom
0207 9227992
http://www.pumpaid.org

Learn more about PUMP AID and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Malawi and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Malawi, read the Human Development Report on Malawi or the Wikipedia entry for Malawi.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 23, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 25, 2009.

Latest Update from the Field

Completed project - 5 poor rural communities benefit

By Marianne Rowley - Fundraising Assistant, September 09, 2009 02:20 PM

Children washing their hands in the spout of the Elephant pump

Dear Supporters

Many thanks for your generous support that has helped Pump Aid to reach 5 poor rural communities in Mzimba, Malawi. That is over 1250 people having gained access to safe drinking water with an Elephant pump, adequate sanitation with the Elephant toilet and improved health through planting of nutrition gardens.

This integrated approach will ensure the maximum benefits are reaped by these communities.

Your support has helped people like Constance, who use to walk over 5 miles to the nearest source of water, where she would often wait up to 2 hours in line to get her bucket filled. Now it takes her a few minutes to walk to the Elephant pump that is near her home, where she can go as many times a day to fetch water and the best bit is there is no queue!

Many thanks again for you support.

Keep up to date with Pump Aid's work by checking our our website www.pumpaid.org

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