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Safe water for 50 people

Safe water for 50 people

This gift helps set up or maintain a safe water supply with pumps, tanks or purification systems. It can even restore supplies after emergencies.

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About this item

Safe water saves lives. It helps families to thrive. It can even kick-start a community. This gift helps set up or maintain a safe water supply with pumps, tanks, taps, purification systems or pipes. It can restore supplies after an emergency and topped with health and hygiene training, this gift is a winner.

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This gift supports our water & sanitation (WS) projects.

Delivery & returns

All gifts are sent by 1st class post within 3 working days of when you place your order.  An optional delivery contribution of £1.70  per order for deliveries within the UK will be suggested during checkout, to help us cover costs. You can pay the suggested amount, increase or decrease your contribution, or pay nothing at all. You choose.

If you're in a hurry you can also send a gift E-card, at no extra cost, which will be sent as soon as you place your order. 

Please note that Oxfam Unwrapped gifts count as a donation, so our no quibble returns policy does not apply, and under Charity Commission rules, we are unable to give you a refund.

You can find out more about delivery and returns in our help section.

Giving this gift

When you buy an Oxfam Unwrapped gift you can be confident that the real gift will be sent to where it's needed most.   

We will send you (or your friend or family member if you prefer) a gift card that tells them what they've been bought and how it will help to improve someone's life.  You can add little extras during checkout, which are posted at the same time.

You'll be given the opportunity to customise your gift card or E-card during checkout and specify your delivery details. 


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This gift in action

Every year during the monsoon season – September to March – flooding and waterlogging threaten the homes and water systems of people living in south-west Bangladesh. The result is a lack of clean water and sanitation facilities, with many people suffering from severe water-borne diseases such as diarrhoea and dysentery. Since 2000, Sakina Katun’s family have been regularly forced out of their home in Mathpara by floods. Although the family had a well, it was often contaminated by floodwater, forcing Sakina to travel to collect safe drinking water. Oxfam has helped to install a new deep hand-pump well on a raised platform near Sakina’s house. The well is protected from floodwater and the family and the local community can still get to it during flooding. This construction was part of a wider Oxfam project to improve the supply of safe drinking water and the health of 20,000 people living in 12 rural communities. The well not only provides safe, clean water, but it enables local people – particularly women, whose job it usually is to collect water – to spend their time more productively, as Sakina explains: “Now that we no longer have to spend three hours every day carrying water, we can dedicate [that time] to our family, our children. And thanks to Oxfam we have been saved from having to move home every time it floods.”

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