Recent posts to this site

• Elinat’s storyFebruary 20, 2012, 12:22 pm

  Last year Elinat Jonathan, 28, used to collect all the water needed for herself, her husband, her four sons, her daughter and two of her sister’s children, every day, from an open well using just a rope and bucket. Elinat told Pump Aid that not only was this hard work but there was also a [...]

• #showthelove this Valentine’s DayFebruary 8, 2012, 4:30 pm

  This Valentine’s Day we want people to use Facebook and Twitter to #showthelove by donating to Pump Aid. On Tuesday 14th February, Pump Aid is doing a Twitter and Facebook campaign called #showthelove. The idea is that supporters will donate to Pump Aid on Valentine’s Day and their chosen Valentine will receive a ‘tweet’ from [...]

• Pump Aid joins the End Water Poverty campaignFebruary 8, 2012, 8:00 am

  Wednesday 8th February 2012 170,000 people have now signed up to take part in the World Walks for Water and Sanitation in March! They will be calling on their Development and Finance Ministers to attend the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) High-Level Meeting on the 20th April in Washington DC and take action to [...]

• Work for usJanuary 9, 2012, 12:16 pm

  Two volunteer opportunities at Pump Aid are available from now. We need two volunteers to help us with our Walking for Water campaign between now and March 2012. If you are interested please email a copy of your CV to fundraising@pumpaid.org.

• Walking for WaterDecember 6, 2011, 4:25 pm

  Over 800 million people (usually women and children) must walk an average of 6 km (4 miles) every day to get access to water, often at the expense of working or going to school. An estimated two million people die every year from diseases often brought on by poor sanitation. Access to clean water and [...]

• Toilet TroubleNovember 27, 2011, 3:45 pm

  Marpu Doe, 67, told Pump Aid that before she had an Elephant Toilet installed near her household, her and her grandchildren “used to dig small holes around my house to ease ourselves and cover them after. Those were difficult and dangerous times for our health.” Marpu explained the impact that access to an Elephant Toilet has made; “I now [...]

• 2011 Christmas AppealNovember 25, 2011, 4:49 pm

  Across Africa, families and villages continue to be without the most basic sanitation or have access to clean water. In Liberia, a country still recovering from some of the most horrific civil war violence seen in the last century, Pump Aid is employing former child soldiers such as Cynthia Brown to work in consultation with [...]

• World Toilet Day 2012November 18, 2011, 9:25 am

  World Toilet Day, 19th November, as it was declared by the World Toilet Organisation, is a day used to highlight the 2.5 billion people who are living without a toilet. Pump Aid and campaigners across the globe have used this day to bring the issue of poor sanitation in developing counties onto peoples agenda’s, and [...]

• School FundraisingNovember 8, 2011, 3:43 pm

  ‘Basketball Bonanza’, ‘Name the Pig’ and ‘Ping-pong Pandemonium’ are just some of the many competitions that helped students from Tettenhall College, Wolverhampton raise £500 towards Pump Aid’s work this year. Lower School students held a cake and sweet sale alongside these competitions whilst the Tettenhall Upper School students held a non-uniform day. A presentation on [...]

• Pump Aid and the Meanwhile teamOctober 19, 2011, 4:31 pm

  Pump Aid has served over one million of the poorest people in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Liberia during the past decade. So what about the next ten years? Well, quite simply, we want to do so much more. We’re delighted then to announce that we’ve joined forces with the Meanwhile team. Meanwhile helps organisations grow; become [...]