Pump Aid
Our mission is to achieve lasting positive change in poor and rural communities in Malawi by improving the quality, availability and use of water. We've brought safe and sustainable water to over 1.5 million people in Africa. We have more than 20 years of experience delivering WASH programmes in sub-saharan Africa. We are challenging the traditional aid approach and focussing our work on innovation, empowerment and sustainability. We are proud that 90p in every £1 donated is spent directly on our programmes in Malawi. With your support, we can help transform the lives of communities in Malawi by providing them with more than just safe water.
ABOUT US: 

Pump Aid is a UK-registered charity, established in 1998 and has been working on Malawi since 2008. Our aim is to achieve lasting positive change in poor and disadvantaged communities by implementing water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programmes. Pump Aid has developed innovative programme areas which provide sustainable solutions to Malawi's water challenges.

WHY OUR WORK MATTERS: 

We are committed to ending water poverty and aid dependency in Malawi for under-served and isolated populations.

Our innovative business led approaches, supporting local water entrepreneurs, help us develop practically sustainable solutions to improving water access for poor communities, householders, and farmers. Empowering people to improve their own lives.

We also invest in future generations by providing community water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities, enabling children to survive, thrive and play.

OUR VALUES: 
Enterprise, not aid.§Hand up not a hand out§Independence, not reliance
OUR AWARDS: 
Our impact and innovation are being recognised: we won International Aid and Development Award at the 2017 UK Charity Awards, We were also shortlisted for International Aid and Development Award at the 2022 UK Charity Awards.§Received a special commendation at the FT / IFC Sustainable Business Awards§finalists in the 2017 AidEx Innovation Challenge and 2018 Bond Innovation Award
THINGS WE ARE PROUD OF: 
Our work has also been recognised by officials in Malawi. In 221, our team met Lobin Lowe, the Minister for Agriculture, who was impressed with our initiative helping farmers access irrigation. Malawi’s First Lady Monica Chakwera, who praised our work.
WHAT WE LOOK FOR IN OUR PEOPLE: 

We look for likeminded people who are motivated to ending water poverty in rural Malawi in a sustainable way

HOW WE ARE DIFFERENT: 

In 218, we established our social enterprise Beyond Water, to develop and grow our repair and maintenance community pump service and our low cost pump sales for home and farm.

Beyond Water combines business approaches with high levels of social impact. It aims to provide financially sustainable solutions to access to water challenges for poor rural communities. Promoting empowerment and ending aid dependency.

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