The Dungra community relies on its village well as the main source of portable water. Recent droughts have made water scarce in the area and forced women to spend 5 hours traveling to the village's outskirts to collect enough water for their family's daily use.

This project will construct 2 hand pump wells in the village to ensure the Dungra families have reliable access to convenient, clean drinking water. Each hand pump will serve 20 families and significantly reduce the time needed to collect village water.

Dungra is a small agricultural village of approximately 150 families nestled in the foothills of Dungarpur district in Rajasthan, India. Families in Dungra earn around $1–$2 a day working as agricultural laborers on small farms in the area. There are no plumbing or irrigation facilities in Dungra and villagers must rely on monsoon rains for the water that is needed both for their farming and personal use.

Recent droughts have caused significant problems for Dungra. Women who are spending between 3 and 4 hours each day collecting water from the village well are still unable to obtain enough for their family's daily use.

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Direct Impact of Your Project

• Provide 40 families with safe access to water for drinking, cooking, cleaning, and washing
• Improve the health of the Dungra community by reducing cases of dysentery, diarrhea, cholera, typhoid and other water-borne diseases
• Allow Dungra families to promote better hygiene through regular access to water for cleaning and washing
• Newly available water can also be used to cultivate winter crops. Increased agricultural production will provide the community with additional grain and fodder for cattle, improving its income and food security levels.

Extended Impact on Your Partner Community

• Enable Dungra’s women to apply their newly available time towards productive activities such as agricultural work and embroidery so they may earn additional income for their families
• It will also save the women the time consuming task of obtaining water from sources outside the village (since they will be commuting less) and therefore, the 'extra' time that they have can be used in earning extra income for the family