How the PlayPump® Works

The PlayPump® is a simple idea with a life-changing impact: children’s play is transformed into clean, safe water for their schools and communities.

Step 1:
Power of Play

The PlayPump is a specifically designed roundabout 

Step 2: Pumping from Underground

that drives a conventional borehole pump 

Step 3: Storing Clean Water

As the children spin, water is pumped from underground 

Step 4: Easy Access for Families

into a storage tank 

Step 5:
Smart Sustainability

A simple tap provides easy access for people drawing water 

Step 6: Awareness & Community Support

A simple tap provides easy access for people drawing water 

Four billboards screen the tank to create a unique advertising or messaging opportunity. The advertising revenue generated by these billboards contributes toward ongoing maintenance and sustainability of sites.

Maintenance Trip

Maintenance Trips Site LP 007 in Limpopo Province, Seshigo Primary School. This site was originally installed on 2000, so is now over 25 years old and still supplying clean water…

New PlayPumps & Maintenance 2020

New PlayPumps & Maintenance 2020

COVID 19 has made it even more imperative that we install new PlayPumps and maintain our existing 900+ PlayPumps. Just before lockdown we maintained 8 PlayPumps in Limpopo, North West…

Maintenance and installations

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,…