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Powered by play, the PlayPump® water system brings clean drinking water to under-served schools and communities in Africa.
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Four billboards on each PlayPump storage tank carry education, health and consumer product messages. The advertising revenue funds a decade of pump maintenance, making PlayPumps systems sustainable.
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PlayPump water systems already provide clean drinking water to approximately two million people in Africa. The non-profit PlayPumps International welcomes donations to help bring pumps to 10 million people by 2010.
Photo: MTV News and Docs.
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The benefits of clean drinking water include improved sanitation and hygiene. Here, boys in Boikarabelo, South Africa wash their hands with water they pumped by playing on a PlayPump merry-go-round water pump.
Photo: Frimmel Smith.
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Kids play and water pumps using a PlayPump water system in the peri-urban community of Cosmo City, South Africa.
Photo: Frimmel Smith
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Women and girls often walk five miles a day to carry home a 5-gallon, 40-pound can of water. The PlayPump water system puts clean drinking water in the heart of a community, enabling women to take on more productive work and eliminating a barrier to girls' education.
Photo: Frimmel Smith.
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PlayPump water systems use an innovative business model that funds pump maintenance using advertising revenue, ensuring sustainability. Each pump reserves two of its four billboards for social and public health messages. Here a soap advertisement accompanies a message about the importance of hand washing.
Photo: Frimmel Smith.
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With more than 1000 PlayPump systems already donated to South Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Zambia children’s play now results in clean drinking water for millions of people. 4,000 pumps will bring the benefits of clean drinking water to up to 10 million people in 10 countries by 2010, enabling improvements in health, education, gender equality and economic development.
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As kids play on a PlayPump water system, water pumps into a 660-gallon storage tank, easily accessible by the simple turn of a tap. In addition to providing access to water and playground equipment, the storage tank carries essential social messages about issues such as this one about preventing HIV/AIDS.
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The PlayPump water system includes a merry-go-round pump head on a borehole (well) plus a sealed water storage tank, billboards for sustainability, a water tap stand and a concrete water spillage runoff. Invented in South Africa, the pumps already serve one million people and are poised to serve up to 10 million people in sub-Saharan Africa by 2010.
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