The brickmakers of Pakistan live in extreme poverty and to feed themselves and their children is their main concern. They rent a small one room house from the brick kiln owner and it is hardly big enough for the family to sleep in. They don’t have safe drinking water or toilet facilities.
Influential Missions started building toilets at the end of 2017 at different brickyards in Faisalabad and Toba Tek Singh. We also install electric water pumps to provide clean drinking water to poverty stricken communities.
Sanitation Crisis in Pakistan
No Toilets at Brick Yards
An alarming 41 million people in Pakistan lack access to adequate toilets. Pakistan is in fact the third largest country, behind India and Indonesia, where people are forced to defecate in the open.
This troubling practice which has become the norm for 41 million Pakistanis has profound health and nutritional consequences. Open defecation has significant consequences and it is imperative that we do something about it.
Unsafe Drinking Water
Drinking water quality is deteriorating continually due to biological contamination from human waste, chemical pollutants from industries and agricultural inputs.
Piped water also gets contaminated because pipes are laid very close to sewerage lines or open drains and cause many serious water borne diseases.
It was found that 45% of infant deaths have been attributed to diarrhea and about 60% to overall infectious waterborne diseases in Pakistan.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) 25-30% of the diseases are gastro-intestinal in nature.
During the Medical Mission Outreach, we tested the water and it was found that the water was full of bacteria. In October 2019, we started installing electric water pumps for people in need. At the cost of only $220, we can secure better health for families.
It cost only $450 per toilet. Please consider to donate towards The Sanitation and Clean Water Project. Better sanitation and clean water will improve their health.