This unique welfare project launched by Dr. Qadeer Soharwardi a USA based Pakistani Physician and Philanthropist, in Pakistan called “Clean Water for Schools.” It is aimed at providing clean drinking water for children attending Government Schools in Pakistan. The lack of access to clean drinking water for children is a crisis in the Country.
In Pakistan, 80% of diseases are water-born and 84% of the Country’s poorest populations attend these schools. Our goal is to address it by installing Water Filtration Plants in Government Schools where the students often come from very poor families. Unfortunately, such infrastructure does not exist in Pakistan, where the average enrollment in such schools is 500 students.
To date we have installed 190 Water Filtration Plants in Districts Bahawalnagar, Vehari and Nankana sahib. We have launched a pilot program, which is well underway includes 19 schools with a total enrollment of 24,884 students in different districts of Punjab. Now we are going to launch pilot projects in Sindh, KPK, Baluchistan and Azad Kashmir.
We could not have achieved this success without the support of Dr. Qadeer’s med school class fellows Dr. Amjad Saqib, the Founder of Akhuwat; and Dr. Rashid Bajwa, Chairman of the National Rural Support Program (NRSP) and Dr. Shakeel Khan, Chairman of Punjab Aabe Pak Authority (PAPA) and Dr. Asad Majeed Khan, Ambassador of Pakistan, in USA.
