JHB West - Oct 2020

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