Water is the source of all life. Yet across the globe, a staggering 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water. Without clean water to drink, communities face dehydration, disease, and in the worst cases, death. Children cannot thrive, mothers cannot care for their families, and communities cannot build toward a better future.

Islamic Relief South Africa works to ensure that communities across our region have access to safe, reliable, and sustainable water sources. From drilling boreholes and rehabilitating water infrastructure to distributing hygiene kits and building irrigation systems, we address both the immediate need for water and the long-term conditions that sustain it.

Every day communities across the globe are in need of safe sources of water for drinking, washing, cooking, rearing livestock and watering crops. Yet for these millions of people, this simple essential is out of reach.

How we are ensuring sustainable sources of clean water

Islamic Relief works in over 40 countries across the globe to ensure that not only do communities have a safe and reliable source of water for today, but for life too.

When we build a water system, we ensure communities have a sustainable source of clean water for years to come. We recognise the risk of drought, displacement and disease and we know that simply drilling wells and installing water pumps cannot solve the water crisis.

We bypass short-term interventions and high running costs to instead provide long-term sustainable solutions; installing irrigation systems, building water tanks, training communities, distributing hygiene kits and rehabilitating viable water systems.

Donate water charity now and help us to provide men, women and children clean and safe water, an essential we all take for granted.