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Every Drop Counts Spring 2016 | № 61 The magazine from Wells for India Drip irrigation: Less water = stronger crops Every Drop Counts BAHUT DHANYAVAAD 3 A WORD FROM OUR CHAIR THANK YOU VERY MUCH 4 PROJECT MAP We’d like to thank everyone who has helped us to help rural 6 SUPER SUPPORTERS communities in India combat AMAZING ACHIEVEMENTS water poverty, and in particular: Individuals 8 PARTNER PROFILE: Sara Arnold PRAYAS KENDRA Rajni Bali SANSTHA HARSOLI (PKS) Louise Braithwaite, naïve artist Julie Bushell 10 APPEAL UPDATES: Tarina Dixon EVERY DROP COUNTS AND Julian English WATER FOR OUR DAUGHTERS Ron Foulkes Phil Gough 12 WELLS FOR INDIA OUT AND ABOUT Daniela Healey Carolyn Humphrey 14 ONLINE SHOP SPRING SPECIAL Liz Kavanagh Nick Langham 16 WISHING WELL CHARITY GIFTS Charlie MacKay 17 ORDER FORM Daphne Maher Kay May 19 STORY: A SIGHT FOR SORE EYES Pam Meir Lucy Middleton Marie O’Brien Will Osborne Emma Rickwood Andrew Rump Kev Sandall Paul Sansome Canon Peter Seal Fair Ground Fair Trade Wimborne Evie Smith King’s School, Winchester John Spatchet St Michael’s at the Jo Tanter Northgate, Oxford EDITOR Faith Tucker St Paul’s Church, Winchester Nicky Springthorpe Groups and Companies Southampton Camera Club CONTRIBUTORS Art Asia University of Northampton Nicholas Grey Balaka Restaurant, Winchester University of Southampton Om Prakash Sharma Basepoint Business Centre, University of Winchester Winchester Winchester Cathedral DESIGN Barton Peveril Sixth Form College Winchester Fusion Choir Park Corner Design Ltd Coach House Alternatives, Balmore Winchester Magazine Covenant with the Poor, Winchester Photographic Society Cover image Hampshire Downs Parish Winchester School of Art ©Omimages Dear friends, I am delighted to tell you that two new Trustees, Nicola Floyd and Neil Mehta, have joined the Wells for India family. Nicola is a director of IPAF, which works with alternative funds to find non-executive directors, and is a trustee of a small charitable trust. Neil describes himself as a digital entrepreneur, investor, board director and mentor. He has been heavily involved in charities operating in UK and overseas. Neil will formally be appointed as the new Chair of Trustees at our next Trustees’ meeting. During my five years as Chair, I’ve seen huge changes in India and great progress within Wells for India. The Indian government has recognised the difficulties faced on sanitation and water supply, and is taking action through its Clean India Mission. Our approach makes us uniquely placed to complement the government’s work and through leveraging government funding, we can make an even greater impact in alleviating rural water poverty. Within Wells for India, project management and control has tightened with greater monitoring and evaluation, and shared learning between partners. We are not only having a greater impact, but we can demonstrate it too. We are particularly pleased with the success of Prayas Kendra Sanstha Harsoli (PKS), a charity partner from the Dalit community relieving water poverty in the Sambhar Salt Lake area (see a profile of PKS on page 8), who have gone above and beyond in difficult circumstances. My thanks go to Trustees, volunteers and our supporters for all their help. I owe a special ‘thank you’ to Om Prakash Sharma, our India Director, for his passion, patience, and his nurturing of the India office team. My time as Chair has been very rewarding and I look forward to keeping in touch with Wells for India’s progress. Chair of Trustees Gandhi stamp image © Catwalker / Shutterstock.com WaterWise | The magazine from Wells for India | www.wellsforindia.org 3 Where we workGANGA NAGAR and what we do HA NUMANGARH 1 BIKANER Partner: Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti (GRAVIS) CHURU Project: Capturing and learning about water efficiency, men and women working together to 2 develop ways to earn a living from grain, fodder Partner: Jal Bhagirathi Foundation (JBF) and livestock Project: Capturing water and improving quality, improving sanitation, learning and leveraging JAISALMER government and private support JODHPUR NAGAUR 1 3 RAJASTHAN Partner: Jal Bhagirathi Foundation (JBF) 2 Project: Revival of traditional water 3 management practices, capturing water, AJMER promoting and improving sanitation with active BARMER community participation PALI 5 Partner: Mahan Seva Sansthan (MSS) JALOR RAJSAMAND Project: Learning about and implementing 5 drip irrigation systems using less water for SIROHI 4 CHITTAUR GARH stronger crops, collective production and selling 6 vegetables BANAS KANTHA UDAIPUR 4 PRATAPGARH Partner: Mahan Seva Sansthan (MSS) MAHESANA DUNGARPUR Project: Learning and improving waterSABAR quality KANTHA KACHCHH and sanitation, learning and leveraging BANSWARA GUJURATgovernment support Current projects as at March 2016 4 WaterWise | The magazine from Wells for India | www.wellsforindia.org GANGA NAGAR 9 Partner: Samagra Vikas Sansthan (SVS) Project: Capturing and improving water quality, while learning to improve sanitation and seek HA NUMANGARH government support 10 9 Partner: Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS) CHURU Project: Capturing and learning about water JHUNJHU NUN Building to capture efficiency, sharing and saving together and retain water Building to improve access 10 to safer drinking water SIKAR Building to improve ALWAR sanitation Strengthening community JAIPUR8 NAGAUR DAUSA governance 8 Partner: Prayas Kendra Sanstha Harsoli (PKS) Educating communities to 7 RAJASTHAN Project: Capturing water and improving quality, make best use of scarce water growing and selling produce, sanitation and improve sanitation teaching, sharing and saving together while Empowering communities to develop ways to earn a living seeking government support AJMER Enabling women to have a voice, a choice and a future 7 Partner: Gram Vikas Nav Yuvak Mandal (GVNML) Supporting communities in water emergencies Project: Learning to plant, grow and care for RAJSAMAND trees to improve the land, lives and earn a living, while working together to leverage government support CHITTAUR GARH RAJASTHAN 6 Partner: Hanuman Van Vikas Samiti (HVVS) INDIA PRATAPGARH Project: Learning about hygiene, improving sanitation, monitoring and improving water quality, managing waste, leveraging government support MAINLAND UK FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR WORK MAINLAND UK IN COMPARISON TO WITH PKS ON PAGES 8 AND 9 RAJASTHAN AND INDIA WaterWise | The magazine from Wells for India | www.wellsforindia.org 5 Students’ Easter Fundraising Fun Raise The first year geography students at the awareness University of Northampton had fundraising fun at Uni at Easter, for Wells for India. Egged on by their lecturer and Wells for India Trustee, Dr Kevin Cook, they raised awareness and funds from selling chocolate and a raffle, and made over £100 – a brilliant effort. Star Supporter: Julie Bushell “India is my favourite travel destination. I found out about Wells for India in 2011 and wanted to help the people of a country I love. I enjoy the purposeful feeling of fundraising; the positive feedback from those participating in the activities is rewarding in itself, but knowing that you have done something that will make such a difference to people's lives feels so worthwhile.” We want to say a big thank you to Julie who since 2012 Fundraise has raised over £3,000 for Wells for India from table top from home sales, quizzes and curry suppers. Get In volved How can you help us fight water poverty? Snap Happy Christian Values Champion us Kev Sandall recently took over Several Wells for India Trustees and at Church as President of Southampton community supporters came together Camera Club, and following a to present Wells for India’s work in February photography trip to Rajasthan, to the Hampshire Downs RC Parish group decided the President’s dinner of churches from the Winchester area. The would be in aid of Wells for congregation were so compelled to help poor India at Christmas. Thanks for Indian people in water poverty that they raised the funds and for loaning your over £6,000 pounds, which will make a significant beautiful photos Kev. and lasting impact on our work. 6 WaterWise | The magazine from Wells for India | www.wellsforindia.org Star Supporter: Elizabeth Lamont Raising Awareness and Funds Long-term supporter, John When teacher and artist, Elizabeth Lamont, learned Spatchet from Wimborne, gave of the daily hardships faced by so many women a talk about Wells for India’s seeking and fetching water in rural India, she work to the Mother’s Union offered two pieces of glass artwork ‘Jewel Star’ Donate your and very kindly donated his and ‘Birch Trees in Winter’ as images to be used designs speaker’s fee. as Christmas card designs. Elizabeth paints traditional and fused glass, often combining Marathon Bake Sales layers of opaque and translucent glass to achieve tonal subtlety or Ahead of a trip to India, Sophie capture an atmosphere. Harber from Oxfordshire, baked National Trust property a mountain of cakes to host Nymans’ commissioned bake sales at each of her three Elizabeth to produce five children’s schools, raising more glowing glass pieces and she than £600 – fabulous! will be exhibiting at The Grange Talk and Donation in the in Rottingdean, near Brighton, Itchen Valley UK, from 16 June to 5 July 2016. Woman of many talents and Elizabeth’s cards have been tireless supporter, Jo Tanter very popular – thank you! from Winchester, gave a talk www.elizabethlamont.co.uk about water and sanitation Get In volved at the Itchen Valley Ladies’ How can you help us Probus Group, who kindly gave Scientifically
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