Villagepump BV articles

The April 2015 Nepal earthquake was the worst natural disaster to strike Nepal since the 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake.
Hundreds of thousands of people were made homeless with entire villages flattened, across many districts of the country. Meelan Gurung, Group Managing Director of the Singaporese based company Acuatico Pte Ltd, wanted to do something about this situation and decided to donate several Villagepumps 500 for the city of Kathmandu. These Villagepumps are plug-and-

Funding for our Villagepumps comes from different sources. It could be government or NGO or aid-relief, the army or charity. But in India, there is another source. Commercial businesses have an obligation to donate a certain amount of their nett profit to social impact projects, as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility policy. In Savargoan, India, a Villagepump was funded in this way, by a CSR contribution by PubMatic India, with a nice reference as result:

My name is Faris Alqubati, a passionate Yemeni social activist based in the Netherlands since 2013. Water in Yemen has been a major scarcity for a long time and access to clean water has been almost impossible. This has motivated and inspired me to start an initiative for a relief . When I started seeking for solutions to the water problems in Yemen I was directed to look at a system called Villagepump, a small company that figured out a way to filter water while pumping water from vari

The Dutch based foundation "Kinderen van India" has set up an orphanage in 1989 in Pendra Road in the province Chhattisgarh (central India). The last two years the number of cases of waterborn diseases increased sharply. In particular the number of infectious diseases such as typhoid fever has risen sharply. The drinking water is extracted from a well located on the property. This source should provide clean drinking water but due to the many rains and the intensive use of the land over the p

Our distributor in Malaysia, Weida, has been a loyal partner for already a long time. Weida is a leading supplier of water
infrastructural projects and manufactures big rotation moulded tanks and tubes. Weida is based in Kuching, Sarawak. Weida distributes drinking water all over Malaysia and for the more remote places they rely on Villagepump, especially in combination with harvesting of rain- and mountain water. They used to build nice platforms and roofs to combine the big tank

From 1991 on more than 50 schools has been established in the region south of Mombassa by the Dutch foundation Verkaart
Development Team. Besides education, the schools are also used for providing clean drinking water to the children and the locals. Twice a year during rainy season rainwater is harvested in the surrounding ponds and lakes. And also rainwater from the roofs of the school is collected in big tanks. However this water is not 100% safe drinking water. In several villa