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Water for Women
In communities across Bangladesh, women and girls still spend hours walking each day to collect water. The sources are often unsafe, the distances are long, and the water is heavy. This routine takes time, drains energy, affects health, and holds them back from things that could change their future.
"Over 800,000 people die each year from diseases linked to unsafe water. Most are women and children."
The Water for Women programme brings clean water closer to home. Eve Foundation installs hand pumps in villages where they are needed most. These are placed near homes, schools, and health centres so women and girls no longer carry the weight of water alone.
Each pump is community-selected, built on strong foundations, and designed to last. Every pump installed gives back hours of lost time, improves health, and helps restore dignity.
£150 funds a complete hand pump
£10/month helps sustain clean water access
Zakat and Sadaqah Jariyah eligible
Plaques available in remembrance or to gift a loved one
200 million hours lost every day as women and girls walk for water
In many families, it is the daughters who are responsible for collecting water. Before school, after school, and In place of school. The impact goes far beyond just time.
Fatema’s Story
Fatema is thirteen. She lives with her parents and younger siblings in a village where the nearest water source is over an hour away. Each morning, before school, she takes two large containers and begins walking. By the time she returns, her arms and shoulders ache. She often misses the first part of her school day. Some weeks she misses full days.
When the weather is bad or her body is too tired, she stays home. She tries to catch up when she can, but it is hard. Her teachers say she is bright. She wants to become a teacher herself one day. But the more she misses school, the more distant that hope feels.
The water she brings home isn’t always clean. She has had stomach pain, fever, and missed more school because of it.
This isn’t rare. Most girls in her area face the same pattern. Carrying water affects their health, their education, and their chances of building a different life.
When water is placed near the home, everything changes. Girls stay in class. They stay well. They grow with the freedom to learn, not the obligation to carry.
Monitoring, Training, and Oversight
Every hand pump we install is closely monitored and checked for quality and long-term use.
Our project officers in Bangladesh visit each site during installation. They test the water and inspect the build. They hand over the pump as a gift to the family and show them how to keep it clean and safe. They leave spare parts in case of small issues and offer a one-year callback guarantee to return if anything needs repair.
Local women are involved in WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) training. The pump is the responsibility of the community.
Before any pump is used, it is signed off by local authorities to confirm that it is safe. We do not open a pump until that approval is given.
Each year, our UK team visits selected sites at random. They speak directly to families, women’s groups, and village elders. They check the build quality, the cost, and the process.
Not all pumps are the same. Depth, terrain, and distance affect how each one is built. That is why we inspect not just the pump but the story around it.
Safe water should never put someone in danger
In remote areas, walking long distances for water is not just difficult. It can be dangerous. When girls travel early in the morning or late in the evening, alone, they are vulnerable. There are places that are isolated and there are paths where people wait. This happens more often than it should.
Taslima’s Story
Taslima is fifteen. Her family does not have a hand pump nearby. She walks to a pond nearly miles from her home. It is an open area surrounded by trees and scattered buildings. She goes early so she can return before school.
One morning, she did not come home on time. Her mother went looking and found her crying by the roadside. She had been followed and harassed by two men she had never seen before. They had tried to corner her but she managed to run. She was shaken and refused to leave the house for days.
Her family no longer lets her go alone. But the water still needs to be collected, and her mother cannot always go with her.
This is not just Taslima’s story but a common one in rural areas where vulnerable women have to travel far for basic needs.
Placing water near the home is not just about convenient but also protects their health and the girls from harm.
Dignity should not depend on permission
In some communities, the only working hand pump belongs to a household that refuses to share. Even though it costs nothing extra to draw more water, access becomes a form of power. Women are turned away, children are told not to come near, and families are left with no choice but to walk further or rely on unclean water.
Water should never be withheld from anyone. Where possible we place pumps in shared public spaces, agreed by local women and elders. No one should have to ask for the right to drink.