HOPE’s Youth Wing from USA visited Karachi to Review Hand Pumps Installed with Their Support

Water is one of the prime elements responsible for life on earth. Yet it is out of reach of majority of the people around the globe. It affects every continent and more than 1.2 billion people lack access to clean drinking water. While considering the province of Sindh in Pakistan, besides being one of the disadvantage communities when it comes to literacy and morbidity rate in addition, it happens to be one of the places where water is chronically short besides being dirty and contaminated. Women of these remote areas travel 5-6 km far from their village to fetch water. However, water well are set-up which are 250 ft deep from which both animals and humans drink water.

Therefore, HOPE- an NGO in Pakistan has been helping the needy to obtain clean drinking water by installing hand pumps. In this regard HOPE’s youth wing in the US focused their efforts amongst other youth groups and students providing them full awareness of the non-availability of drinking water in rural Sindh. This resulted in the formation of a support group eager to provide financial support for installation of hand pumps in selected areas in dire need of water.

HOPE- an health NGO in Pakistan, was entrust in selecting the populated areas in extreme need on drinking water. The places for setting up the hand pumps were selected and up till now 19 hand pumps were successfully installed benefiting 100 to 250 household in each village.

Like previous year, member of HOPE’s Youth Wing based in the US visited Pakistan to view and inspect these hand pumps. They appreciated the quality of pumps and were satisfied that their effort has created such a positive result and benefited the community as a whole.

HOPE’s US youth wing’s representative Mr. Zain was accompanied by his family. All of them were extremely overjoyed to see how their support had benefited all the communities– especially with the fact that installation of these pumps saved these communities from migrating to areas with better accessibility to water.

The beneficiaries presented traditional Sindhi Ajrak to the visitors in order to thank them for their efforts and as a return gift sweets were distributed among them. As always particular attention was given by Dr MubinaAgboatwalla- child specialist in Karachi.