Clean Water
Giving the region access to clean water is essential for health. MFM has drilled 96 clean water wells. The combined population of these 96 villages that now have clean water wells is 92,000 people including 42 schools with 16, ooo students . MFM has trained village water committees to provide for maintenance and repair of these wells.
Clean Water Wells
One of the biggest improvements that we can make to the health and welfare of a region is to provide it with clean, healthy drinking water. Currently, many villages use open pit wells from which they pull water out with by hand. It is so easy for these dangerous wells to be contaminated with dirt and disease. Animals and rodents, and fecal material fall into these wells with disastrous results for people drinking, cooking and bathing with the water.
MFM brings clean water to as many people as possible. Our effort has been to provide villages with at least one working tap that provides clean, healthy water. In the 9 villages where we have installed a mini-water distribution system, we pump the water using solar powered pumps, build towers for storage, and provide 4-5 public faucets so that villages no longer have to worry about the safety of open pit wells. In addition, we provide clean water hand pump wells in villages that have no clean water. We train the local water committees how to collect funds for maintenance on these wells.