The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “The best charity is giving water to drink and He was the most generous in giving charity.” (Hadith Ahmad)
With so many worthwhile causes needing your mercy in the short term it’s well worth considering leaving a legacy of mercy in the best month and reap the blessings of Sadaqah Jariyah for years to come.
When you donate a water well, an entire community of around 105 people will have water for drinking, cooking, washing and farming. Simply put, your donation transforms a village and their lives forever, and provides you with blessings throughout.
£800- Install a deep water well in a drought-hit community, helping to transform a village of 105 people in Pakistan.
£860 – build a deep water well in a vulnerable and impoverished community in Bangladesh, benefiting 105 people.
But a water well does so much more!
Instead of having to spend hours traveling miles for fresh water, a water well saves whole communities valuable time so children can be educated, crops planted and livestock tended to.
The Prophet (PBUH) described providing drinking water as the best charity.
A long lasting merciful gift
It’s an incredible blessing to be able to give, no matter how little, since charity offers blessings and protection in this life and the hereafter, and transforms the lives of people facing hardship around the world. You can serve a whole community of around 105 people, year after year and put the prophetic teaching of charity into practice. Every time your well allows a person to quench their thirst, grow a plant, feed an animal or work instead of spending their day fetching water - that will be your legacy!
Join together!
A great way to create a legacy is to pool together your donations with your friends, family or colleagues and donate a water well together, reaping the ongoing rewards.
We’ll place a plaque in your names on the well, and send you a report on when and where your well was installed. Or you can donate the well in the name of a loved one, and they’ll reap the endless rewards of this charity – even after they are gone.
“When a person dies, his deeds come to an end, except for three: ongoing charity (Sadaqah Jariyah), knowledge that is benefited from, and a righteous child who prays for him.” (Hadith Muslim)
Why give through Human Appeal?
More and more people are providing clean water through Human Appeal. That’s because our local experts adapt our water solutions to the needs and environment that we work in – there’s no one size fits all, and that’s what makes for long-term, sustainable water access.
In 2023 alone, we helped a total of 1.1 million people through our safe water and sanitation projects. Last year, we installed 687 deep water wells, as well as a number of solar-powered water pumps.
Join the growing number of people who are donating water wells and reaping the ongoing blessings of this Sadaqah Jariyah.
It usually takes around 9 months for us to build your well, and a further 3 months for you to receive your report. It takes this long to ensure that the well we install is in the best location for maximum impact and to source clean water.
Throughout the process, we supervise installation, and we then test the water quality at certified labs to make sure it’s clean and safe.
Only once this is complete, we install your plaque, take final photos, and write up a report which is checked, edited, and sent to you, the donor.
A well lasts a minimum of five years, but its lifetime depends on the quality and consistency of maintenance. Our wells have the capacity to last well beyond five years providing the source water hasn’t depleted and the well is properly maintained.
Even if a well lasts only five years – that means it costs less than 50p per day to provide water to a whole community!
We’ll send you a completion report, informing you that your well has been installed and is now providing clean, safe water to a whole community.
You’ll receive a full report that tells you where we installed it, what the situation was in the community, and how many people will benefit. We’ll also send you photos of the well, and of the plaque we’ve installed in your name or the name of your loved one.
Our selection is based on the need of the local community, and how far they currently have to travel to fetch clean water. For the exact position of the well, we hire a water expert to help us find sustainable water sources deep in the earth, that are far from any potential contamination – such as latrines – so that your well provides water year after year.
When choosing a location, we focus on communities in which a minimum of five families would benefit, though, on average, around 70 people benefit from one well.
Every time we install a well, we also train a water well committee in the local community. This means that those who benefit from the clean water also have the skills to maintain the well, ensuring that there’s always people nearby to make sure it’s used and preserved properly.
Yes! Since its benefits continue year upon year, donating a water well is a Sadaqah Jariyah, that provides the giver with ongoing rewards, even after they’re gone.
We’ve been installing water wells for 30 years. We don’t have a one-size-fits-all mentality, our experienced teams work with the local community and water experts to agree on what type of water solution works best. For example, where there is plenty of water, but it is unclean, we install filtration systems or water plants, where there is drought, we source groundwater and install a deep water well.
If you want your donation to have a lasting, transformative impact on a whole community, then entrust your water well to our experience and expertise.
“The best charity is giving water to drink and He (saw) was the most generous in giving charity.”
Ahmad
Human Appeal is committed to providing aid in the country or programme that you select. In the event we complete the programme, exceed the required funds, or are denied access to a particular country for reasons beyond our control, Human Appeal reserves the right to reallocate your donation to another programme where it is needed most.
