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)
£880- Install a deep water well in a drought-hit community, helping to transform a village of 105 people in Pakistan.
£880 – build a deep water well in a vulnerable and impoverished community in Bangladesh, benefiting 105 people.
Leave a legacy of mercy for yourself or a loved one and reap the ongoing blessings of Sadaqah Jariyah.
When you donate a water well, in your own name, or in the name of a loved one, an entire community of around 105 people will have water for drinking, cooking, washing, and farming. Your donation transforms a village and lives forever and provides you with ongoing blessings.
The transformative power of a water well
With the power of a water well, women and children no longer must make long, treacherous journeys to fetch water. A water well saves individuals, families, and whole communities valuable time, so women can take care of children, children can be educated, crops can be planted, and livestock can be tended to.
A merciful gift that lasts
It’s an incredible blessing to be able to give water. As the best of charity, it offers blessings and protection in this life and the hereafter, transforming the lives of people facing incredible hardship.
You can serve a whole community, year after year, putting the prophetic teaching of charity into practice. Every time water from your well quenches a person’s thirst, grows a vegetable, feeds an animal, or enables a child to go to school, your legacy continues.
Leave a lasting legacy of love
“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)
This beautiful hadith reminds us of the blessings of ongoing charity. If you donate a water well in the name of a loved one, they will reap the endless rewards of Sadaqah Jariya, long after they’re gone. We’ll place a plaque in the name of your loved one on the well and send you report once your well is installed.
Give water together
Create a legacy together by pooling your donations with your friends, family, or colleagues to donate a water well together. We’ll place a plaque in your names on the well and send you a report on when and where your well was installed.
Why give through Human Appeal?
Give the best of charity through Human Appeal. Our local experts adapt our water solutions to the needs and environment that we work in, ensuring long-term, sustainable water access.
In 2023 alone, we helped a total of 1.1 million people through our safe water and sanitation projects, installing 687 deep water wells, as well as several solar-powered water pumps.
Join the growing number of people who are donating water wells and reaping the ongoing blessings of this Sadaqah Jariyah.
Give the best of charity today and reap ongoing rewards.
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.
