Staff at Harrison Drury have played their part in helping a village in Zimbabwe gain access to safe drinking water, thanks to its partnership with office water supplier AquAid.
Each time Harrison Drury makes a purchase of water or cooling equipment from AquAid, the company makes a donation to the Africa Trust.
These funds are used to build ‘elephant pumps’, a modified version of an age old Chinese rope pulley system, in villages across Zimbabwe, Malawi and Liberia.
One such pump funded by Harrison Drury’s partnership with AquAid has just been installed in a village in Manicaland, a province in the north eastern highlands of Zimbabwe.
Bearing the Harrison Drury name, the pump provides safe drinking water for upwards of 300 people that previously would have had to walk many miles to retrieve safe water.
Hannah Craig, a solicitor at Harrison Drury, said: “The impact on the community where the well is built is profound and far reaching. Safe, clean drinking water helps eliminate many diseases such as dysentery, helping parents and their children to stay healthy and live better lives.
“It’s easy to take clean drinking water for granted, but our partnership with AquAid reminds us of those less fortunate than ourselves and has given us the opportunity to help them through the automatic donations made to the Africa Trust.”
To date AquAid has built over 5,000 such elephant pumps across parts of Zimbabwe, Malawi and Liberia; and has donated in excess of £10 million to charity.
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