Maintenance of Lesotho PlayPumps 2021
We recently visited Lesotho and maintained 22 of our PlayPumps there, thanks to generous donations from donors. These PlayPumps were installed in 2009 and 2010 and are still needed by the local communities because of the lack of reliable running water. When the team arrived the children were nearly always playing on the PlayPumps. The local children found the maintenance team provided great entertainment while they replaced cylinders, columns, rods, repaired taps and mended the soil crete under the PlayPump heads. We have also...
read moreNew 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 and Mpumalanga, so the learners have water to drink, and most importantly water to wash hands when schools re-open. During May and June we visited another 21 schools and communities and maintained their PlayPumps and are just about to go to KwaZulu Natal. We also installed in new PlayPumps during this time. D L Jansen Primary School were thrilled with...
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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 get enough of the PlayPump” and what a difference it has made. We also installed a PlayPump at Louwna Primary School in the North West Province. Their electric pump had been...
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We installed a PlayPump at Ntsoanatsatsi Educare Trust in the Free State. They originally started to help uneducated adults to learn to grow vegetables and start their own sustainable vegetable gardens, but now they also look after about 300 children and 15 educators. They needed water for the children to drink, so they can cook them meals, washing of hands, cleaning classrooms and the growing of the vegetables. The cooks were delighted to see the easily available water and Ruth Butcher from Mamas Alliance said “The children cannot get...
read moreVisit 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 water they were drinking. This little one had come with her mother to collect water. The Day Care Center has problems with a leaking roof and we are hoping to get funding to repair it. If you are in a position to help please...
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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 were very keen to have a PlayPump. In July 2018 we installed a PlayPump at Vlakfontein Intermediate School. The school, near Kuruman in the Northern Cape, has +- 950 learners. They have a stand pipe, but have to...
read morePlayPumps installed and Maintained
In the last three months we have installed two PlayPumps and maintained over 65 existing PlayPumps thanks to the generous support from donors. At Lehmans Drift Primary School the principal told us that they had been operating for years without piped water and were reliant on rainwater and the kids bringing bottled water from home. Though they had an electrical pump it had been broken for many years and they could not afford to mend it. Also the electricity supply was very unreliable. They felt that a PlayPump would be the answer to their...
read moreThree 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 to install a PlayPump at the school in July this year. The school will now have reliable water to drink, cook with, wash hands, clean classrooms and hopefully start a vegetable garden with which to feed the children. Another...
read moreNew PlayPumps in the North West Province
Three PlayPumps were recently installed the in the North West Province. Lekolwane Primary School has 545 learners and 15 educators. The school is in the bushveld region of the North West and there is a constant need for reliable water. Prior to the installation of the PlayPump the school had to buy water. This meant that the children hardly ever washed their hands because there was no spare water to do so. Water for cooking had to be purchased from the community and during the summer months the children were constantly dehydrated and...
read moreThe fun of the PlayPump
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.
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