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Published Date: 16 December, 2021

Access to Safe Potable Water

Community members asked us forthrightly – how can the children be expected to want to learn, when their stomach are empty and growling from hunger while their mouths dry from thirst. They have to walk 4-5 kilometres every day on rocky roads to buy water with heavy barrels over their heads as they breathe in dense amounts of dust. They must do so despite the scorching heat of summers and the shivering cold winters. Unable to afford such expensive water, they often have to not take bath for days, or wash their clothes.
We realised the course that Lakshyam must take in order to alleviate the anguish of the people of Sindhi Basti – first and foremost ensuring that they have access to water and food, and only then can education be imparted successfully. Initially with the help of donors and corporates, we would buy water tankers to supply water to the community. Teams of Lakshyam and IIT Delhi then collectively took rounds of the offices of the Delhi Jal Board in order to persuade them to provide water to the community, but were strung along by the bureaucrats. After 6 months of strenuous hardwork, Delhi Jal Board agreed to send water tanks of 9000L every week. People of Sindhi Basti, after 15 long years, now can entrust upon a steady supply of safe potable water. No longer do they have to struggle to do meet basic needs (such as drinking water, bathing, washing clothes) that most of us take for granted.

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