SMS "fairwater" to 3010 to donate 1,10 euro (action only in The Netherlands) and contribute making a difference in the life of the school kids in Africa. Over 60% of the school waterpumps in Africa don't work. FairWater changes  broken pumps with schools by durable BluePumps that last. Sponsor a complete pump, or help us with pre-financing to replace broken pumps; we will return your loan within a year.

This is called "Crowd-Funding" for a good cause. It is a new on-line support tool. You give us a micro-credit & we return it after one year. This is innovative way of supporting a good idea for free, at no cost, because you get your donation back!

It works like this: 
(1) You take one or more shares of 25 Euro each in our project,
(2) With your shares, we start replacing broken handpumps in Gambia
(3) Donors will buy these rehabilitated water points from FairWater
(4) After one year you get 100% of your share back.

(5) Companies that invest in more shares, will get free publicity!

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The water need in Gambia is very high, thousands of handpumps are broken down, these traditional pumps are simply not strong enough. Over 70% of all handpumps in Gambia don't work anymore and many of them are also in schools and health clinics.
This is a dreadfull situation, because they were installed with good intentions to bring clean water to the people.

FairWater started 3 years ago in Gambia, simple by pre-financing 20 BluePumps to a reliable local company Swe-Gam. We started to replace broken down pumps with the durable BluePump in communities and schools, just to show that this pump is a better option. The incredible happened; in a few years time, the BluePump became very popular due to its reliability; it simply keeps on pumping, it doesn't give up.

There is a high demand in Gambia to replace all broken pumps. NGOs understand now that it is better to buy a solid Dutch made BluePump for their water projects, in stead of a cheaper fragile pump made in India. Over 40 BluePumps were installed in Gambia last year and supply safe water, day in & day out. All these BluePumps make a BlueZone, that is under constant care of Swe-Gam; if anything happens with the pumps, they are stand-by to help the communities.

Now, it is just a matter of scaling up and role out this BlueZone over the whole of Gambia. Over 2.000 handpumps are waiting to be replaced by the reliable BluePump. For this, FairWater needs to invest again. For this we need 2.500 Euro for each pump.

Click here to invest in sustainable waterpoints in Gambia.

Why do we pre-finance the rehabiltation of handpumps?
FairWater projects are about replacing broken handpumps, in communities, schools and health centrers. For this, donors sponsor us for each handpump 2.500,- Euro. However, donors these days are critical and want to be sure that their funding is well spend. They want to see for themselves what, how and where their funding is used. They now want value for money.  In "the old approach", donors just give and hoped for he best. This is not acceptable anymore. The FairWater approach is 100% transparent. We first do and than ask. Therefore we start already by rehabilitating the broken pumps ourselves so we can offer the rehabilitated water points directly for donation. In this way, donors do not have to wait one year or more for their handpumps but can see immediately how their money has been used.

Why Gambia?
The situation in Gambia is becoming worse by the day. Although the country is close to the Gambia river, there has always been a great need for water; the climate is tropical and hot and the water of the river is far away and also no suitable for drinking. In the last 15 years there have been many projects to make wells and waterpumps. However, these handpumps have constant problems with maintenance. People wait for month or sometime for years before broken pumps are repaired. But these traditional pumps are not strong and break down soon again. Due to this, water is scarce and the child mortality rate is about 2x higher compared to most other African countries. We can improve this situation with more reliable BluePumps in the Gambia BlueZone.

The "Gambia BlueZone" project
To bring a more reliable and sustainable water supply to this area, FairWater started the "Gambia BlueZone" project, to replace all broken down handpumps in Gambia with the durable FairWater BluePumps. The target is high: 2.000 rehabs in 5 years. But we are sure that this is possible with the solid BlueZone Business Approach (BBA), in which Swe-Gam is taking care of all 2.000 BluePumps in Gambia. This is a financial sound plan. It's about time the water problems in Africa are taken serious and also solved in a serious way.

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