In Zambia most rural villagers do not have access to enough clean water.  A village woman often spends three hours a day carrying one 20-litre plastic container of water. This is not sufficient water for drinking, cooking and washing. Diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases are common and life-threatening.

To date, we have succeeded in serving over 60,000 people in 240 villages.

Village Water believes that no one should be that deprived of water in our modern world.

How we use the money we receive:

• £10 provides hygiene education and clean water  for one person.

• £40 could buy cement for a rehabilitated well.

• £100 will cover the travel costs for working with one community programme.

• £150 provides a week of pump mender training for 2 villagers, ensuring the community's well can be maintained.

• £200 could buy all the cement needed to install a new well.

• £300 pays for 3 field workers to carry out a full programme of hygiene and sanitation training in a community.

• £450 could pay for a brand new India Mark II water pump.

• £1,500 could pay for refurbishing an installation, bringing a useless pump back into full use. At the same time we carry out a full Village Water community sanitation and hygiene mobilisation programme. (The pumps we refurbish have previously been  provided by organisations no longer working in the area. We always train village pump operators, so they know how to carry out basic maintenance to give a pump a long and useful life.)

• £2,500 could pay for a complete pump installation plus a sanitation and hygiene program for a village of 250 people.