Programs
Water For Life
The current situation…
Over 800 million people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water. Forced to drink filthy surface water from stagnant pools, thousands of people die every year from typhoid, cholera and other preventable diseases. Clean, safe drinking water is scarce. Today, nearly 1 billion people in the developing world don’t have access to it. Yet, we take it for granted. Water is the foundation of life. And still today, all around the world, far too many people spend their entire day searching for it.
Wishing Wells
In places like Africa, time lost gathering water and suffering from water-borne diseases is limiting people’s potential. Education is lost to sickness. Economic development is lost while people merely try to survive. Access to clean drinking water and sanitation is closely linked to children’s education. Many children experience a decrease in their learning potential, which in turn leads to stunted development, lower concentration and poor academic performance.
Millions of children are forced to spend hours every day collecting water from filthy rivers depriving them of the education that they so vitally need. Water scarcity can mean scarcity in availability due to physical shortage, or scarcity in access due to the failure of institutions to ensure a regular supply or due to a lack of adequate infrastructure. Water scarcity already affects every continent. Water use has been growing globally at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century, and an increasing number of regions are reaching the limit at which water services can be sustainably delivered, especially in arid regions. Nearly half the global population are already living in potential waterscarce areas at least one a month per year and this could increase to some 4.8–5.7 billion in 2050. Give water and saves today.
Qard Hasan is on the ground building lifesaving water wells in some of the poorest areas in the world, providing sustainable drinking sources for generations to come.
Change begins with you…
Thousands of people will continue to die each year unless we all act now. With your help we can provide water to some of the poorest areas in the world and help them escape poverty once and for all. With your help we can make sure that children are not deprived of an education because of a lack of water.
People are still desperately trying to piece their lives back together after the tsunami that devastated Indonesia in 2018, that’s why, working alongside our partners, we have ambitious plans to build 20 deep wells in some of the worst hit areas in Palu.
In remote areas of Kashmir and Bangladesh, people are still forced to drink from stagnant pools or travel for miles to the nearest water well. By sparing your change for our Wishing Wells project you can provide lifesaving water to thousands of people.
How you can help
Here are the estimated costs to provde beneficiaries in these regions access to clean water. Your donation of water, is a donation for life. You can contact us if your community is lacking water and we are willing to assist in solving the problem within a shortest period of time.
