Carbon-free water for the children of Balakot

Thank you very much for your kind support and helping us reach our initial target of $ 10,000 ( which was later raised by AWARD) at GlobalGiving.The amount raised on the project was far more than the asked amount. Therefore we are very thankful for your help. AWARD Pakistan has been working from the last 21 years in community development and so far has been able to support approximately 86,000 plus direct beneficiaries and nearly 500,000 beneficiaries indirectly. Our efforts to improve the life of marginalized communities’ especially rural women are still going effectively through number of interventions in the rural areas of Pakistan.

In the Month of May, AWARD Pakistan conducted the suveys in the 10 rural areas to ask people about the aroused need of the Hand Pumps. The team went house to house and managed to interview 20 people from each area (altogether 120) to identify the need. 8 out 10 areas were selected by the team after the keen observation and the survey results. The health risk in these 8 areas were quite high according to the survey. Therefore AWARD Pakistan has finalised the 8 areas of Balakot for installing the 32 handpumps.

As the community in these areas observed fasting in the holy month of Ramadan (June 05- July 05). Therefore the labour(which was the contribution from the community) requested the AWARD team to take the task of intsalling handpumps after Ramadan Month. 

In the mid of July 2016, The AWARD Team along with the community started taking the quotations from different boring companies . After consulting the majority of the companies AWARD Pakistan and the community has finalised a well known Boring Company of Balakot which will be starting the Boring and installing work from the Aug 10, 2016.

The Pictures of the handpups will be uploaded in the next report of October 2016.