A man works a hand pump while others wait with water containers on a brick platform

Water is Life

A new hand pump

Villagers fill their containers at a hand pump installed by TMF.

Photo: Tuaam-e-Miskeen Foundation

Before the pump, women and children walked long distances for water that was often unsafe. Water is Life has completed more than 260 projects since 2021 — hand pumps, deep borings and supply schemes across Balochistan and Sindh.

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From the field

A family at their new hand pump in Khairpur Mirs. The plaque records it as sadqa-e-jariya.Khairpur Mirs District, Sindh
Children and elders gather around a new hand pump in their village.
A TMF coordinator at a completed pump with its marker plaque.
Project 96, Kot Diji: children wait as the new pump is tested.Kot Diji, Khairpur Mirs, Sindh
Clean water poured into a family's jerry can.
A TMF coordinator hands over a completed pump to the community.
Drilling a deep boring: the first water comes up.
A solar-powered pump with its own panel.