Trevor Field and the PlayPumps of Africa |
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"If I can make money and do good at the same time, that's great. I'm a philanthrapreneur."1 Trevor Field, Founder and Director, Roundabout Outdoor, in 2007. "We believe that the PlayPump system, due to its practical, economic, and social viability, is a progressive and creative way to provide free fresh drinking water to rural communities… With the PlayPump we can make children happy, reduce the workload for women, make a visible step forward in rural water development, and slow down the spread of HIV/AIDS."2 - Buyelwa Sonjica, Water Affairs Minister, South Africa, in 2005.
In Africa, the water crisis is quite severe with around 40 percent of Africans lacking access to potable water supply. In addition to the deaths and economic loss caused by the lack of access to water, women and girls, on whom the burden of obtaining water for the family falls, have to trek long distances and spend hours collecting water from dams, springs, rivers, streams, and farm reservoirs. Where such traditional sources of water are not available, they have to rely on bore-wells, toiling hard over hand pumps. While this is back-breaking work, alternatives such as use of diesel, petrol or electric pumps are too costly to install and maintain.3 Trevor Field and the PlayPumps of Africa - Next Page>>
1] "PlayPumps Founder Has Unique Name for His Work," www.wdi.umich.edu, January 15, 2007. |
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