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<h2> Our Purpose </h2>
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To break the
<a href="./background.php" target="pagecontent"> cycle of poverty</a>
in Africa, access to clean water for drinking
and water for irrigation must be
<a href= "./programme.php" target="pagecontent"> improved. </a>Pump Aid builds appropriate technology water pumps, called
<a href="./elephant.php" target="pagecontent">Elephant Pumps</a> that can be maintained by poor rural communities
without any outside assistance.
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These pumps provide clean drinking water and can also be used to sustain crops during the dry season
or through periods when rains fail, as they have done this year.
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Pump Aid currently works in Zimbabwe and will be
<a href="./future.php" target="pagecontent">expanding operations </a> into Mozambique
next year. There have also been requests for Pump Aid to assist in several other African countries including Ghana and Uganda.
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These four orphans relied on a muddy pool as their only source of drinking water.
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<p> Pumps are built in response to
grassroots demand and in full consultation with the
<a href="./cultsens.php" target="pagecontent"> local community </a>.
The local community come together to assist in the <a href="./howispumpbuilt.php" target="pagecontent">
building process, </a>providing materials such as bricks, sand,
stones and also unskilled labour.
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<a href="./whatsnew.php" target="pagecontent">Recent</a>
assistance has been targetted at
poor
<a href="./pumpsforschools.php" target="pagecontent">rural schools</a>
where a single pump costing just £250 can mean clean
water and a school vegetable garden for about 500 children.
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Pump Aid is a Registered Charity (No. 1077889) Comments to the <a href="./contact.php">webmaster</a>
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