Gift of Water
Revive communities with this precious gift
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The Water Crisis
Clean water transforms lives. Without this necessity, life becomes torturous for underprivileged communities across the world. We want to make clean water a basic right for everyone, rather than a privilege for the few.
Muslim Hands assesses the water needs of vulnerable communities who rely on contaminated water sources. We construct different types of wells, providing an adequate supply of clean water to communities for years.
Clean water changes so many facets of people’s lives, lifting entire communities out of poverty and providing hope for brighter prospects. With your help, women no longer spend hours fetching water from dangerous sources, children can go back to school, communities can stay free from water-borne diseases, and agricultural lands can flourish – leading to food security.
Our work doesn’t stop once we construct wells. We take a holistic approach to water management: We train, educate and support local people, enabling them to maintain wells, ensuring they use water safely, and keep water sources clean.
Your continued commitment to this vital cause has allowed people to live healthy lives full of meaning and purpose and it's our hope you will continue to support us in our mission to provide clean water to communities around the world.
Water Wells
Our wells serve everyone, from small villages to large communities
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How it works
Dirty Water: A Breeding Ground for Deadly Diseases
Dirty water is a main stay for approximately 785 million people around the world.
Women and children from this village in Rajanpur lived this reality day in and day out. Wali Shah, storyteller, and poet together with the Muslim Hands team, were on the ground revealing the harrowing details.
They’d spend hours carrying this dirty water back to their villages, only to witness their elderly suffer from kidney diseases and their young experience severe allergic reactions. But they needed water to survive, so they continued drinking this lethal water which was breeding all sorts of life-threatening conditions.
However, since then, kind donors like you stepped in. They decided to commit. To do whatever was in their power to change the situation of this struggling community. Their contributions helped provide them with clean water. Not only did they make Allah (swt) happy, but their efforts changed lives for hundreds of villagers.
Now, this community is thriving. Women no longer spend hours fetching dirty water, children are free from water-borne diseases and entire communities are flourishing. But there are many more people who need clean water and are waiting to be helped.
GIFT WATER, GIFT LIFE
Give WaterOur Work
Since 1993 the Muslim Hands family has:
Giving Water Is A Sadaqah Jariyah Chain Reaction
Clean safe water can:
Help protect women and young girls from the dangers of walking along unsafe paths to collect water
Enable Muslims to perform wudhu before prayer
Ensure that more children spend time in school instead of walking for miles to collect water
Allow farming communities to properly maintain their crops and livestock
Prevent water-borne diseases from spreading and destroying entire communities
Be the first step to prosperity for developing communities around the world
Frequently Asked Questions
A. We build builds tube wells, community wells and dig-a-wells in Mali, Niger, and Pakistan and also rehabilitate existing water systems in Yemen. You can choose which location you would like your well to be built in. If you are unsure, select the “Where Most Needed” option and let our team of experts pick a location for you, based on current needs.
A. We work with a wide range of expert partners who are on the ground in each location. These partners help to carry out periodic assessments, taking a detailed profile of each community and determining their needs. They work with the community leaders to work out what types of wells and how many need to be constructed in each area.
A. Yes. You will receive personalized ‘feedback reports’ after your well has been completed. These reports will give you more details about the project as well as pictures of the well and information about the beneficiaries.
A. Yes. You can choose to add a name that you would like to appear on the plaque that is installed on the well. If you don’t want to include a name, you can leave this section blank.
A. Wells can take between 9-12 months to complete.
Muslim Hands was established in the UK in 1993. Muslim Hands is an international aid agency and NGO working in over 50 countries worldwide to help those affected by natural disasters, conflict and poverty. Muslim Hands Canada is a registered charity with the Canada Revenue Agency (Charity Registration No. 81126 4985 RR0001).