Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

Diarrhoeal disease is a constant threat in the crowded neighbourhoods where we work, in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa alike. Our answer has been safe drinking water that lasts: we install filtration plants together with WASA, so the public utility owns them, while local community organisations form water management committees that look after repairs and maintenance.

We have installed plants in Rawalpindi and Mansehra. In Rawalpindi’s slums we have rehabilitated 10 filtration plants, repaired 10 waste-collection vehicles and run 15 trainings with WASA and local officials on managing filtration systems. We also carried out WASH research in five union councils of the city.

After floods, we work in villages that have lost their water and sanitation. In Muzaffargarh we handed out 300 hygiene kits and 300 jerry cans and held 150 mobile health camps. In Dera Ghazi Khan we repaired latrines, installed hand pumps, ran hygiene sessions and gave winter kits to 3,096 families. In Rajanpur we held 20 training-of-trainers sessions, tested 250 hand pumps, built 200 latrines and helped put in 250 hand pumps. For displaced families in Bannu we provided 2,968 hygiene kits, 50 latrines, 86 water tanks and 150 hygiene sessions.

Women are part of the decisions. One project in Rawalpindi’s slums focused entirely on building women’s skills so they could take an active role in how water and sanitation are run in their neighbourhoods.