Maintenance and installations
We recently installed a PlayPump at Ntsoanatsatsi Edu Care Trust in the Free State The Trust teaches adults to grown vegetables, but also looks after 300 vunerable children. Ruth Butcher, from Mama’s Allicance, who bought the Trust’s water problems to our attention, has told us that after the PlayPump was installed that “the children cannot […]
Visit to Day Care Center
We visited Vumatsepanang Day Care Center near Soshunguve. The PlayPump was installed in 2001 and is still used by the Center and the local community living close by. The owner, Pat, mentions in the video that the children no longer get sick, thanks to the PlayPump, whereas before, they often were sick from the bad […]
2018 report
ROUNDABOUT WATER SOLUTIONS REPORT 2018 In 2018 Roundabout Water Solutions installed 18 new PlayPumps at rural schools in South Africa. The majority of these schools reported that their schools had been without reliable water for months, if not years. They could not afford to mend their broken pumps or pay for the electricity and they […]
Three new PlayPumps
Vlakfontein Intermediate School in the Northern Cape is a large school with 498 boys, 458 girls and 38 educators. Their electric pump broke and they had to buy water from the municipality at a cost of R3,000 per month, which they could ill afford. Thanks to generous support from an American organization we were able […]
Peter Savage visits PlayPumps 2017
Peter Savage, who has very generously donated numerous PlayPumps over the years, recently visited 20 of them. These are his comments on his trip. In November my son, Stephen, and I visited twenty schools in the Northern Cape and Free State. Nearly all were in rural locations and therefore we had a lot of driving, […]
The fun of the PlayPump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8axH-c3b2Cg Not only does the PlayPump provide clean drinking water, but it is also fun for the children in areas where there is little playground equipment.
Shoprite’s PlayPump video
Ramaahlo Primary update
We installed at PlayPump at Ramaahlo Primary School, Limpopo, on the 18 August 2010. The PlayPump continues to provide clean drinking water and has needed no maintenance since it’s installation. We received the following letter on 27 March 2017 from the principal. “WATER IS PRECIOUS …. Thanks a million fold to ROUNDABOUT PUMP RAMAAHLO primary […]
PlayPumps visited late 2016
We recently visited 12 PlayPump installations to carry out inspections and where necessary do maintenance. The PlayPump at Manxeba Village was installed in the Eastern Cape in 2009. When our team arrived they found these two ladies using the PlayPump water to wash their blankets and also have a quick drink. It isn’t a large […]
PlayPumps: Their impact on communities and kids
What is it? So you’ve heard of play and you’ve heard of water pumps, but what happens when you put the two together? PlayPumps combine a fun activity for kids with an important secondary purpose: helping bring water out from the ground for communities who might otherwise struggle to have enough. How did it get […]