JHB West - Oct 2020
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Text: RIALIEN FURSTENBERG. Image: TANJA ROOTMAN PHOTOGRAPHY.<br />
WATER IS THEIR<br />
WORLD<br />
Not all superheroes wear a cape, some wear pink hard hats and<br />
gumboots instead. We chat to the women from Jam Water Services<br />
about their aim to provide water to one rural community at a time.<br />
You open the tap and without thinking twice, you have<br />
running water … However, so many communities simply do<br />
not have access to this basic human right. And that’s where<br />
Jam Water Services (JWS) comes in. They are a commercial<br />
non-profit organisation specialising in drilling boreholes<br />
and providing pump installations solutions to ensure safe<br />
drinking water for communities.<br />
Located on the outskirts of Roodepoort, a passionate team<br />
of skilled women has been helping to provide water to<br />
rural communities in this and other countries. The ‘Pink<br />
Ladies’ are involved in the full project process, from start to<br />
finish. Not only do they run the office admin, but they go<br />
out to these communities, put all the marketing in place,<br />
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work with potential donors, work with the drilling teams,<br />
go to the communities for a celebration launch and follow<br />
each project through heart and soul. In short, they are the<br />
‘mothers’ of every project.<br />
‘One in 10 people worldwide lives without clean water and<br />
has to make use of contaminated water for survival,’ says the<br />
‘Pink Ladies spokeswoman’, Lerina Liebenberg of JWS.<br />
‘Many deaths under the age of five are caused by diarrhoeal<br />
diseases. Sadly, without clean water there can be no<br />
development or survival. Access to safe and healthy water is<br />
a basic human right and our biggest mission. Therefore, the<br />
aim of our water and sanitation programmes is to improve<br />
the health and hygiene of communities all across Africa.’