Maintenance and installations
We recently installed a PlayPump at Ntsoanatsatsi Edu Care Trust in the Free State The Trust teaches adults to grown vegetables, but also looks after 300 vunerable children. Ruth Butcher, from Mama’s Allicance, who bought the Trust’s water problems to our attention, has told us that after the PlayPump was installed that “the children cannot get enough of the PlayPump” and what a difference it has made. We also...
Visit to Day Care Center
We visited Vumatsepanang Day Care Center near Soshunguve. The PlayPump was installed in 2001 and is still used by the Center and the local community living close by. The owner, Pat, mentions in the video that the children no longer get sick, thanks to the PlayPump, whereas before, they often were sick from the bad water they were drinking. This little one had come with her mother to collect water. The Day Care Center has problems...
2018 report
ROUNDABOUT WATER SOLUTIONS REPORT 2018 In 2018 Roundabout Water Solutions installed 18 new PlayPumps at rural schools in South Africa. The majority of these schools reported that their schools had been without reliable water for months, if not years. They could not afford to mend their broken pumps or pay for the electricity and they were very keen to have a PlayPump. In July 2018 we installed a PlayPump at Vlakfontein Intermediate...
Three new PlayPumps
Vlakfontein Intermediate School in the Northern Cape is a large school with 498 boys, 458 girls and 38 educators. Their electric pump broke and they had to buy water from the municipality at a cost of R3,000 per month, which they could ill afford. Thanks to generous support from an American organization we were able to install a PlayPump at the school in July this year. The school will now have reliable water to drink, cook with, wash...
Peter Savage visits PlayPumps 2017
Peter Savage, who has very generously donated numerous PlayPumps over the years, recently visited 20 of them. These are his comments on his trip. In November my son, Stephen, and I visited twenty schools in the Northern Cape and Free State. Nearly all were in rural locations and therefore we had a lot of driving, much of it on unmade roads. The good news is all the playpumps visited were working and in good order and the...
The fun of the PlayPump
Not only does the PlayPump provide clean drinking water, but it is also fun for the children in areas where there is little playground equipment....
