Hand water pump: Majgow, Singerkach bazar, Biswanath, Sylhet ,Bangladesh

Background

Al Ummah Foundation received a request to install a hand water pump ( tube well ) in a rural village of Majgow, Biswanath, Bangladesh. Currently two families do not have easy access to clean water. They consume water from a nearby house, these owners are now closing off the access by moving it internally as part of their home. If they can’t access the tube well they resort to a nearby pond for water or have to travel a considerable distance when access is closed off. As a result of this, the families do not always freely access clean water. Providing a hand water pump in this location will benefit the two families to have freely available water without needing to go elsewhere.

The families are very poor farmers very poor and do not have a steady source of income; instead, they also rely on doing odd jobs and work in other people’s houses as a way of making extra money. Providing these families with a tube well is vital as it will ensure that these families have unlimited free access to fresh, clean water for drinking, domestic use and bathing, without them having to pay for it or resort to pond water. Having a tube well will also ensure that surrounding families have access to water, as the families have stated they will not restrict others from accessing their tube well.

Outcome

The project was approved in Sept 2021 and completed by Oct 2021. The hand waterp pump has been installed in the land of the beneficiary and is in an open area where it will be accessible to anyone, without any restriction. As a result of this project, two families now have unlimited access to fresh clean water, for drinking, domestic use and bathing and would not need to walk a long distance to get access to clean water.

This hand water pump was donated by the Donor as Sadaqah Jariyah through our build-a-well project. May Allah (SWT) reward the donor and their family abundantly.