Thirst Relief
You can join the movement to provide clean water and help us transform lives across the globe!
lives have been transformed through clean water with PA USA
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Through our Thirst Relief programs, we’re providing safe water to enable locals to drink, wash, clean and irrigate their crops as well as hydrate their animals. Our Thirst Relief programs lead to healthier lives, better educated communities and a route out of poverty.
According to UNICEF the 829,000 people that die each year due to diseases directly attributable to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene practices.
At Penny Appeal USA, dignity is our number one priority. Starting in February 2023, new wells constructed by PA USA will not feature plaques: instead, PA USA will be sending donors a final report that provides a photo of the well with a unique identifying number and site location to ensure accountability. With our new water well policy, we are taking a bold and innovative step towards honoring the dignity of the communities we serve while upholding our mission of ending intergenerational poverty through equitable and sustainable solutions.
Read a letter from leadership about our new water well policy
Our Thirst Relief Programs
Hand Pumps and Deep Water Wells
Building a well is an excellent way to honor the memory of a loved one. help save those lives by providing communities with access to clean, safe water starting at $425 per well.
Solar Panel Water and Power Center
We’re innovating by harnessing the power of the sun to provide water and electricity. These incredible feats of engineering can provide water and electricity to entire communities.
Gaza Water Tank
Help provide clean water to schools, orphanages and hospitals by supporting a Gaza Water Tanker.
WASH
The WASH program is an all-encompassing range of water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions designed based on the community’s needs and priorities.
Automate your giving this Ramadan
We’ve partnered with MyTenNights to help you automate your giving during the last ten nights of Ramadan. By automating your donations and Zakat, you don’t have to go online every night and donate.
Transform Lives Through Clean Water
Penny Appeal USA works with area governments to identify regions most in need and partners with builders to construct all of our wells, which means your gift also supports the local economy. During the construction phase, we also work alongside the community to teach them how to care for their wells and provide hygiene training.
Ramadan Pledge
Your well is established within 6-12 months
How It Works
Because we work with regional governments, then contract with area builders, and many times have to transport material to remote areas of the country, the process can take up to 6-12 months from the time we receive your full donation. However, when your well is completed, take joy in knowing that you’ve provided desperately needed clean water, supported the local economy, and freed many women from having to travel miles to the nearest body of water. Time that can now be spent caring for children, starting their own business, or getting an education.
How clean water changed one village.
By providing access to clean, safe drinking water—as well as sanitation and hygiene education—you can promote educated and healthy societies. Watch to see how building a well transformed this community.
Get Involved
Why not join together with family, friends, classmates and colleagues to raise the amount and transform an entire community?
Thirst Relief FAQs
You can learn more and support our Thirst Relief projects through this link.
Yes, currently we offer the construction of Hand Pumps and Deep Wells in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Malawi. These regions are tough to operate in but we strive to serve where the need is high and service is low.
Yes, certainly. Once completed, we provide a report and certificate to you. We do not add inscriptions to the physical well itself as a means of protecting the dignity of the beneficiaries.
As of Feb, 2023, wells will no longer feature plaques, instead, if requested, we send donors a certificate commemorating your loved one.
The report contains the unique identifying number and site location to ensure accountability. With our new water well policy, we are taking a bold and innovative step towards honoring the dignity of the communities we serve while upholding our mission of ending intergenerational poverty. You can read more about it here.
Deep Wells take between 10-12 months from the moment the donation is made to the time you receive a completed well report.
For Hand Pumps this timeline is 6-9 Months.
We try our best to provide status updates. However, we rely on local partners to deliver on the orders and timelines and updates are not always readily available until completion. However, if there are going to be delays, we try our best to notify donors of this.
It depends on the location. $2,000 in Pakistan and Afghanistan, $2,900 in Bangladesh, $3,600 in Malawi
We operate in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Lebanon, Malawi, Pakistan, Palestine, Somalia South Africa, Syria, Turkiye, United States, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.
We operate in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Lebanon, Malawi, Pakistan, Palestine, Somalia South Africa, Syria, Turkiye, United States, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.
