Lake of Stars have worked closely with a number of charities over the past few years and now we would like to introduce you to Pump Aid. They work to combat the global water and sanitation crisis. With the help of their innovative, cost effective and community-centred technology they establish sustainable supplies of clean water and safer sanitation provisions. Their work improves health and supports the local agriculture and economies in Southern and Eastern Africa.
Many areas in Africa are in desperate need for access to clean water for drinking, water for irrigation, toilets with hygiene and nutrition. Using simple but effective technology, Pump Aid builds special water pumps, called Elephant Pumps, that can be maintained by poor rural communities without any assistance. The local community comes together to assist in the building process, providing materials such as bricks, sand, stones and unskilled labour.
The Elephant Pump can also supply water for irrigating nutrition gardens where communities can grow crops to improve their diet and even grown surplus crops to sell to bring much needed cash into the household. The recent addition to Pump Aid's work is the Elephant Toilet. The toilets use just one bag of cement in their construction along with cast-off materials such as ball point pens and plastic bottles. A naturally occurring local plant with antiseptic properties is grown outside each toilet and users pick a leaf to use as soap to wash their hands with after every visit.
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