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Despite Pakistan’s fast-growing power and influence on the global stage, more than 21 million people still have no choice but to drink dirty water, and one in three people don’t have access to basic toilet facilities. Pakistan is home to the world’s fifth largest population and is rapidly urbanising, which makes reaching everyone with basic water services extremely challenging.
To make the situation even more complex, the region frequently experiences devastating droughts and catastrophic floods. In 2022, Pakistan recorded historic flooding which, at its peak, left more than 1/3 of the country underwater and affected 33 million people, particularly in the poorer provinces of Sindh, Punjab, and Baluchistan that lack the pre-existing resources or capacity to respond to disasters.
According to the UN, consumption of contaminated water which leads to several waterborne diseases contributes to 40% of deaths nationwide, or 100,000 people every year. Over 21 million people in Pakistan do not have access to safe water, with numbers rising significantly in rural areas and those vulnerable to drought.
The district of Tharparkar in the province of Sindh is one of the most water-scarce and worst affected drought-hit areas in the country and is the largest desert region in Pakistan. Comprising an area of about 8,500 square miles, more than 1.65 million people and about five million heads of livestock live in the area. Most of the population in Tharparkar are living in extreme poverty, battling with hunger and malnutrition.
The task of fetching water in the region’s rural villages falls mostly to women and children. They must walk long distances of between 1-3 miles in extreme heat, often to deep wells or ponds that are almost dried up or not fit for human or animal consumption.
Without regular access to water, families here not only do not have clean water to drink but cannot grow food to eat, feed their livestock, stay clean, or have produce to sell. Severe drought-like conditions across southern Pakistan are only expected to worsen over in the coming years due to climate change.
We’re working in Tharparkar to drastically improve quality of life for drought-hit people by investing in integrated development and transforming communities. By combining initiatives that improve access to clean water and sanitation with those that generate sustainable livelihoods, we’re providing solutions to complex humanitarian problems that will transform entire communities in the region for years to come.
Our integrated project supports entire rural communities who are experiencing a multitude of adversities related to water scarcity, including food insecurity, limited livelihoods, susceptibility to disease and under nutrition. Each village consists of approximately 1,000 members of all ages and vulnerabilities. The livelihoods components of the project, including kitchen gardens and milking goats, will uniquely benefit the most vulnerable women, including widows and those without a stable breadwinner in the family.
Each village we support will benefit from the installation of water pumps and streetlights, powered by solar energy. There will be community toilets for both genders, respecting cultural practices and protecting women and girls. We’re also working with agriculture experts to train villagers to grow and harvest food in kitchen gardens as well as how to adapt to changing weather patterns. Through animal vaccination and de-worming programs, we’re helping to ensure farmers can maintain healthy livestock and build valuable assets.
As the only charity working in Tharparkar, Human Appeal is so proud to showcase the transformative power of your mercy. Transformation that supplies over 4,500 gallons of fresh water every day from 41 solar powered pumps. Transformation that has seen 560 solar powered streetlights being installed there and 336 toilets built to date. We’re changing the lives of more than 60,000 people and counting, forever. This is us making the most of your mercy.
THE IMPACT
“The best charity is giving water to drink.” (Ahmad)
$48,500 – Transform an entire community in Tharparkar, Sindh
When you support this project, you’ll help to provide an entire community of 900 people with access to clean water, quenching their thirst, helping them to grow crops, and rear cattle, without worrying about waterborne diseases, or walking long distances just for the basic right of clean water.
A water well doesn’t just provide the best of charities, it’s a Sadaqah Jariyah that continues to give, and continues to bless the giver for as long as it’s in use. Change the future of an entire community, and reap the rewards of this blessed act, year after year.
Human Appeal is a non-profit organisation working in 20 countries across the globe to strengthen humanity’s fight against poverty, social injustice, and natural disaster. We are faith-based, inspired by the Islamic values of excellence, accountability, compassion, justice, trust, and empowerment. Through the provision of immediate relief and the establishment of self-sustaining development programs, we aim to invest in real, effective solutions.
Human Appeal was founded in a small flat in Manchester in 1991 and was slowly and diligently built from the ground up. In 2004, we registered as a company limited by guarantee, and we registered with the Charity Commission in 2014.
Since then, we’ve grown from a team of two students to a family of over 173 employees in the UK, 100 staff in our international country offices, and 991 active volunteers, all of us united towards a common goal of a just, caring, and sustainable world.
We work year-round to establish healthcare, education, and livelihood programs that pave the way for empowered self-serving communities. We also provide food, medical aid, and disaster relief during emergencies, critical interventions that save lives. Our skilled local teams are able to access some of the most hard-to-reach places in the world at their most vulnerable of times.
We save lives, alleviate poverty, transform, and empower local communities whilst championing humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence.
In a year of unprecedented crisis, we continued to be there for the most vulnerable people affected by conflict, poverty, and natural disasters around the world.
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