10,000+ children in Gaza, Sudan & 13 more countries are waiting for a guardian — earn 12 months of sadaqah jariyah today.
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1,251,848 people helped with clean water and sanitation last year
3,368 wells built across Pakistan, Somalia, and Bangladesh
353,692 people gained access to clean water through wells in 2025
35 years of trusted humanitarian delivery
"The best charity is giving water to drink." Hadith Ahmad
Right now, while we sit down for dinner and fill our glasses with clean water, families in Pakistan are walking hours each day for water that could make them sick. Every year, 3.5 million people — most of them children — lose their lives to water-related illness. One in five children worldwide still live without clean drinking water. And as climate change deepens, water stress is now driving at least 10% of all global migration.
It is women and children who bear the heaviest burden. They are the ones who rise before dawn, trek treacherous paths, and return home exhausted — before the day has even truly begun.
When a community gains access to a reliable water source, everything changes. Women reclaim hours to nurture their families. Children return to school. Crops are grown, livestock are raised, and dignity is restored. A single water well doesn't just save lives — it rebuilds them, for generations to come. Your donation is the difference between a family surviving and a community genuinely thriving.
When you give to our water well appeal, your donation doesn't wait — it goes straight to work through our trusted field teams operating across Pakistan, Bangladesh, Somalia, and Gaza.
Here is exactly how we deliver:
Step 1 — Site Assessment & Engineering Approval
Our experienced field teams conduct thorough on-the-ground assessments across Pakistan and Bangladesh — evaluating water availability, community need, and environmental conditions before a single brick is laid.
Step 2 — Water Quality Testing
Every site undergoes rigorous testing carried out by qualified engineers to ensure the water source is safe, sustainable, and genuinely fit for the community it will serve.
Step 3 — Construction & Installation
Local teams build and install the well, affixing a personalised plaque in your name — or the name of a loved one. Wherever possible, we source materials locally, directly strengthening the communities we serve.
Step 4 — Community Training & Ongoing Maintenance
We don't build and leave. We train a local committee to maintain the well and establish a small community fund for future repairs — ensuring your water well keeps giving for years, and decades, to come.
Step 5 — Your Impact Report
Once complete, we send you a full report — including the exact GPS location of your well, how many lives it has reached, and photographs from the ground.
Aid is delivered entirely by our in-country field teams and long-established local partners — people who know their communities and are trusted within them.
"The best charity is giving water to drink."
Hadith Ahmad
Water and Sanitation
Water is life — and in Gaza, life is slipping away. With pipes destroyed and wells buried, families are surviving on puddles. Just £64 gives 332 people safe water for a full day. Give to the charity the Prophet ﷺ called the best.
Water and Sanitation
£55 provides 11 people with clean, safe water for years to come through a solar-powered water treatment plant — a Sadaqah Jariyah that continues to bring blessings long after it is given.
Water and Sanitation
Your £100 helps rehabilitate latrines, construct vital bathing areas, and implement waste management systems for 12,797 refugees in the world's largest refugee settlement — protecting them from disease, infection, and floods.
Water and Sanitation
Your £15 provides a displaced woman or girl in the Blue Nile State with menstrual, hygiene, and washing products — turning £15 into £75-worth of aid for five women and girls. Your blessings multiplied; fivefold.
Water and Sanitation
Be a mercy to schoolchildren in Pakistan. For £405, you can provide a school with a water cooler that filters, cleans, and cools water — helping increase school attendance and delivering clean water for months to come.
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.
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.
