Assistance for Rural Poor Communities by AHD Pakistan

Pakistan facing huge water shortage problems in terms access to safe and clean drinking water, The problem with regards to water quality in the proposed district does not end with microbiological contamination. Waterborne diseases and patients ratio in district Hospitals very high, during May 2022 in one District Hyderabad some 500 patients admit in one day, the situation even adverse in remote areas. Groundwater, especially shallow groundwater is brackish, in many sites in Sujawal is contaminated with dangerously-high levels of arsenic. Long-terms exposure to the high levels of arsenic found in drinking-water which reduces child survival, lead to cognitive impairment, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer. The proposed Nadi filter & water conservation improve health impact on rural poor women and children and to reduce microbiological contamination & provide them with access to safe and clean drinking water at their household level. 

In addition, majority of farming communities belongs to Hindu Minority with deep poverty due to illiteracy and basic health facilities their women and children remain submissive and poor as compare to other communities, shortage of labor and water and health facilities also increasing problems for the target communities, this project will bring new hope for the targeted poor families to have access of safe and clean drinking water. Thus this needs a renewed commitment to improve water quality, installation of the AHD Nadi Water Filters and construction of water conservation/ponds/ tanks would provide a low cost community based solution to the communities at grassroots level.

In the light of aforementioned facts and findings Association Humanitarian Development (AHD) team identified and prioritized 4 Districts of Sindh (Thatta, Sujawal, Tando Muhammad & Badin) are most vulnerable villages where poor rural farming communities have been facing major development challenges in terms worsen socio-economic condition, non-availability of safe and clean drinking water facilities, health, electricity and water borne diseases issues are also the major challenges of these villages of District Sujawal. In this connection.  

Majority of the diseases in the areas are caused by malnutrition and the use of unsafe water. Safe water supply for human, animal and crop consumption is the critical issue for the costal communities. It also effects on their ability to own live stock, especially in the areas where there are severe problems of drinking water and fodder availability. Lack of water impacts on the productive use of human time (women can spend all day fetching and carrying water), on health (dirty water means that a high proportion of the population, especially children, suffers from water-born disease), the distribution of the population (often along irrigation canals and drainage ditches) and the choice and productivity of crops. It can be fairly said that the failure of the water supply is the single most important constraint to any development in the coastal district.

Association for Humanitarian Development has intervened in this sector and innovated with a low cost community based solution model in between 2006-2007 under name AHD Nadi Filter Units. Initially it has replicated in some deprived villages of Sindh and then after the positive result of this innovation, it has scaled up through the different districts of Sindh and Pakistan.

AHD Nadi filter technology is sustainable in its design, cheap, innovative and locally adoptable at anywhere in the world. The Nadi filter unit’s pots made by mud and mud available in Asia & Africa as well as all over the world. Its material is available at all level including national and international level. It can be replicated in different regions and other countries as well. Nadi Filter Unit innovation is flexible in all situations and its 100% community based solutions which can be replicated and promoted all level including other regions and countries. The innovation made with major objective of using limited available resources, particularly commonly used mud pots for water storage (such as; Nadi) in rural household for filtration that could sustained itself, without any external interventions. The specification and details about the innovation of Nadi Filter Unit comprises on different steps. The AHD Nadi filter innovation made from local material available in rural areas and communities residing in far & scattered areas can easily build through their own. The 14 steps to prepare Nadi filter. The positive and sustainable impacts can be seen in the communities of Sindh and Pakistan. The local communities owned this innovation and promoting it at household level. Since, AHD Nadi filter Unit is immensely different from other health care activities. Communities engaged in development and peace process and they are presently taking interest to design the Nadi Filter Unit by themselves and even promoting the same innovation through replication and supporting to the other communities at wider level. They are now sensitized and aware about their basic fundamental human rights of clean and safe drinking water. The socio-economic condition of the indigenous people improved and ensured. 

Association for Humanitarian Development won APFED showcase award for 1,000 families in Jati area and then 2008-2021 AHD supported by Oxfam Pakistan, Help Alliance Germany, Lufthansa Airline, WHO Pakistan, GSK UK, Misereor Germany, Care International, SDPI Islamabad, UNEP-APFED and ADP & Oxfam GB. AHD successfully reached 85,500 families and with other NGOs the total Nadi filters reached in Pakistan figures goes 300,000 in Pakistan rural people, NGOs, INGOs and private organizations doing this and helping poor rural people with access to safe and clean drinking water in 3 million people.  

AHD Won GSK- UK “Healthcare Innovation Award https://youtu.be/9Tcukhbxzm0

Nadi Filter drinking water video:  https://youtu.be/bdLjSxo8k-0

Video of Kisumu Africa Women Happy: https://youtu.be/iNc-3E2LB6g

Cooking stove for rural women: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_UZ7mLOqM8&t=1s  

AHD Won ENERGY GLOBE AWARD of AUSTRIA 2019 for safe drinking water via Nadi filter technology

https://www.energyglobe.info/pakistan2019?cl=en&id=331184

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Association for Humanitarian Development targeting poor rural communities, more than one third of the land is tenanted and about two-thirds of land is under sharecropping, a form of farming where output is shared between the landowner and tenant. Sharecropping is the predominant form of tenancy in Sindh where the land ownership distribution is particularly skewed. According to a study, a median landlord in Sindh owns 28 acres of land, whereas nearly 80 per cent of the share croppers-tenants are landless farmers.[1]  

AHD discovered the deplorable condition of women belonging to the share croppers/ tenant families (mostly Hindus). These women along with their children spend considerable time (4-6 hrs daily) in the fields and are involved in weeding, sowing and harvesting alongside men. A few of them are also employed as daily wagers for only Rs. 200/ day (USD 2) to work in the fields of landlords. The landless farmers/ tenants are often deprived of production profits of agriculture by the big landlords and their standard of living is on the nosedive. The targeted families have subsistence income only from the crops. Average household income is not more than Rs. 6,000-7,000 (USD 60-70) per month. For all other household needs, they take loan from the landlord/ zamindar and thus are entrapped in a vicious cycle of debt which transfers from one generation to the other. The loss of crops due to floods in year 2010, 2012, 2013 & now COVID-19 has further worsened the financial liabilities of the tenants.  

In District Sujawal, the sharecroppers/ tenants are mostly Hindus (minority group) which form almost 9 % of the total population of District Sujawal. [2] In Jati and Sujawal Talukas, Kohli’s (sub caste of Hindus) are mainly involved in growing vegetables and other crops. Presently due to COVID-19 crises and economic situation low down Pakistan, the poor families residing in very poor conditions with shortage of food and poverty increased during recent years 2020-2021. The need for the project was identified during AHD’s team visits in different villages of Sujawal and Jati areas and find people very poor condition due to shortage of food and labor. AHD conducted focused group discussions (FGD’s) with the women from tenant/ share cropper families (mostly belonging to Hindu minority group) who demanded some income generation skills which they could practice at household level and identified the two trades as proposed in the current project.

[1] http://www.dawn.com/news/881169/question-of-land-reforms-in-pakistan

[2] Hindus fall roughly into three main classes: the advanced trading and commercial class in which the Lohana predominates; the intermediate class (Kohli’s) who have slightly higher social status than the Rabaries - the primitives and the other scheduled castes.

Association for Humanitarian Development (AHD) is working directly towards the rural communities who were recently affected by the June floods 2022 and now suffering from it's impact, the floods were the deadliest to happen in a very long time.

AHD is working with it's two main programs, AHD's Nadi Filter and FES Cooking Stove to help rural affected people to make their lives sustainably better and so they can live a healthier lifestyle. 

AHD's Nadi Filter technology can save the extra cost of buying water and save cost of travel and transportation as canal water or ground water can be filtered for drinking purposes.

Women work load reduced to fetch drinking water from 1-2 km away from their houses.

Women and children health improved and about US $ 10 to 20 saved on monthly basis for 1 family (saved from water borne diseases)

Energy saving as local material used to prepare Nadi filter and FES Cooking Stove units.

Even by installing just 1 Nadi filter unit, 20 to 30 people can have access to  safe and clean drinking water ….positive change in society.    

Nadi filter unit and FES Cooking stove installation also bring peace in different villages sharing technology will be the source of peace.

Both of these methods are simple and cheap, yet effective.

through these ways not only will they be able to save money, they will also be able to live an efficient and a healthier lifestyle and make their lives better.

Mr. Abdul Khurshid Bhatti is the founder member of Association for Humanitarian Development, professionally M. Sc in Agronomy AGRICULTURE during 1999. During Job in one of NGO LSRDA in 2005 the New from Local District Hosital Hyderabad that -500 children death due to Gastero and Diheria Than Mr. Khurshid started searching safe and clean drinking water solution and find Bio-Sand Filters in rural Australia and Asia. Mr. Bhatti & 06 BoD members did research and find solution of Mud Pot NADI and converetd into filter during 2005-2006 and find solution Nadi filter during 2006.

AHD started searching sustainable solutions in 2005-2006 and comes up with number of solutions to uplift rural poor communities and introduced Nadir filter in just ONE village and then 10 Nadi filters, in 2007 AHD started work in 100 families with ADP USA and during 2008 AHD won APFED showcase award for 1,000 families in Jati area and then 2008-2021 AHD supported by Oxfam Pakistan, Help Alliance Germany, Lufthansa Airline, WHO Pakistan, GSK UK, Misereor Germany, Care International, SDPI Islamabad, UNEP-APFED and ADP & Oxfam GB. AHD successfully reached 85,500 families and with other NGOs the total Nadi filters reached in Pakistan figures goes 300,000 in Pakistan rural people, NGOs, INGOs and private organizations doing this and helping poor rural people with access to safe and clean drinking water in 3 million people. 

AHD 7 Board Members and 23 skilled staff focused on Nadi filter solution for rural poor communities and from 2007-2021 reached 300,000 rural families in Pakistan and about 3 million drinking safe and clean drinking water.

AHD staff 23 highly motivated and sincere with organization and skilled for Nadi filter technology promotion in Pakistan and Africa, AHD staff willing to help developing countries where drinking water contamination is major problem.

(Note: Mr. Abdul Khurshid Bhatti, CEO AHD organziation is founder and innovator of AHD Nadi filter and helping to replicate technology as per design and technology, anyone want to promote Nadi filters should learn how to assemble it first) 

AHD Won GSK- UK “Healthcare Innovation Award https://youtu.be/9Tcukhbxzm0

Nadi Filter drinking water video:  https://youtu.be/bdLjSxo8k-0

Video of Kisumu Africa Women Happy: https://youtu.be/iNc-3E2LB6g

AHD Won ENERGY GLOBE AWARD of AUSTRIA 2019 for safe drinking water via Nadi filter technology

https://www.energyglobe.info/pakistan2019?cl=en&id=331184

AHD applying to this challenge to help indigenous rural poor communities and save them form drinking contaminated water and build their skills to learn AHD Nadi filter solution for the sustainable development

Challenge:

AHD Nadi filter have a multiple benefits for the poor communities, once install Nadi filter unit at their household level than:

>1 one Nadi filter unit can save 5 to 10 US $ per month of a family

>save cost of travel and transportation as canal water or ground water can be filtered for drinking purposes 

>Women work load reduced to fetch drinking water from 1-2 km away from their house

>women and children health improved and about US $ 10 to 20 saved on monthly basis for 1 family (saved from water borne diseases)

>Energy saving as local material used to prepare Nadi filter unit

>From 1 Nadi filter unit 20 to 30 people can have safe and clean drinking water ….positive change in society

>Nadi filter unit installation also bring peace in different villages sharing technology will be the source of peace

The president of AHD, Mr. Abdul Khurshid have spent 30 years of his life in village and then came to city and started working with organizational sector to help rural people's lives become better and started creating innovations like Nadi Filter and Cooking Stove. Since he had an understanding on how the rural people spend their days and the difficulties they face on daily basis and the problems they have though water and air borne diseases. 

Keeping these things in mind he developed these innovations like Nadi Filter, which helps to filter the water with local materials like sand and stones, these water results are lab tested and they are proven to be better than the mineral water sold in markets since AHD's Nadi Filter does not require any chemical to filter out the water. 

AHD's FES Cooking Stove is another one of his innovations, this stove is made out of mud which helps keep the smoke away from the person cooking and can be light by small twigs, this helps in the reduction of carbon emissions in the environment and help promote carbon credit activities, this way the rural families can cook efficiently without worrying about eye and throat infections and can live healthier and better lifestyles. 

AHD Nadi Filter water technology adaptation of the centuries old slow sand filtration. The Nadi filter innovation made up during 2005-2006 when some 500 children death due to waterborne diseases by Taluka Hospital Hyderabad Govt of Sindh Pakistan and then AHD humanitarian team & research fellows started working on Nadi Pots to solve drinking water issue in Hyderabad Sind. Nadi filter is made from mud, mud available at local level affordable, sustainable household technology, proven to be very effective in improving the quality of water to make it safe for drinking, cooking, bathing, and cleaning. The average cost of a Nadi filter in Pakistan, which normally serves a household of 12-20 people is only Rs 3,500-4,500/=. That includes the cost of material, installation, transportation, the cost of training on the filter operation/maintenance and important health and hygiene education. AHD Nadi Filter remove 95.0 to 99.0% of organic contaminants, including bacteria, viruses, protozoa, worms, and particles. Safe water produced by the filters is free of discoloration, odor, and unpleasant taste. The most common home-based models can produce between 20 to 30 liters of water per hour & 50 to 60 liters enough for 8 to 12 households for one day.

AHD working in Sindh Pakistan, Hyderabad region focus on 16 districts most poor and deserving for safe drinking water, AHD established warehouse can store 5,000 to 10,000 Nadi pot material &  training & material provision to NGOs, CBOs and community leaders, AHD trained more than 35 Artisan / mud pot makers and doing making Nadi pots at large scale in cities Nadi & Mattaka available in local market people purchase and make their filters but still it is limited as AHD reached 85,500 people and with other NGOs and INGOs we reached only 300,000 families sill long way to go, AHD Nadi filter never ends people use it long as they living and mud pot now prepared on large scale and venders / mud pot makers making these pots, AHD working with different groups, media and Govt line departments to scale up Nadi filters, the next target is to reach 1,000,000 million rural poor families in Pakistan and also AHD reached Asian and African countries different organization and helping in Kenya 200 Nadi filters, Uganda 4,000 Nadi filters, Malawi 200 Nadi filters & Zimbabwe 500 Nadi filter in 2021-2022.

The yearly data we manage and our IT officer do excel sheet data count NIC card number and mobile contacts etc. as per update 2021 December AHD reached 85,500 families via excel sheet data and 300,000 via other groups of NGOs and CBOs. These all achievements in just 15 years 2006-2021 and now AHD focus and fully prepared to target 1,000,000 one million families till 2030 agenda. As per AHD plans and preparations to focus Nadi filter tackled well and during COVID-19 target minimized to 3,500 per year 2020-2021. But 2022 is good we find support for 6,000 Nadi filters so far and hope during August to Dec 2022 AHD fund raising team will raise funds for 6,000 more and hope for 2023 target is 12,000 Nadi filters, we looking support from donors for Pakistan and Africa.

Nadi filter solution is totally local based, no new technique or machine or technology needed just mud needed and local artisan who already making mud pots on large scale in Pakistan and all over the world, the local artisan / mud pot makers once get design and mobilized than can prepare Nadi in just 2 days. Theory totally depend on skills. AHD team experts to trained people in just one day training and once the training Nadi filter given than man or women install their Nadi in front of AHD trainer and then fallow up and the Nadi prepared first time will rung 10 years to 20 years or more.

Nadi filter made from mud and good mud available everywhere and skills make possible to install this Nadi filters. So simple and easy. Please check this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBvclfeW_NA

AHD's FES Cooking stove, which helps rural people cook efficiently, and prevent the cook from getting various eye and throat infections. Watch this video:

Nadi Filter technology has been lab tested and used by millions of people in Pakistan and Africa, their testimonials are always positive and the rural people who have installed AHD's Cooking stove and Nadi Filter have been getting clean and hygienic water and can cook efficiently than before these innovations will help them prevent and avoid many water borne hazardous diseases and eye and throat infections.

One billion people lack safe drinking water. Every day they risk their lives and health by drinking from contaminated sources: they are missing out on a basic human right. Here the AHD Nadi filter can make a difference, providing safe drinking water, right where it's needed most: at household level, because it effectively purifies contaminated water.

Cheap and simple, yet effective. Dedicated to spreading knowledge of this unique technology, we believe this filter can make a difference, save lives in just US $ 10 for 12 months or one year, where other technology fails or is too costly.

AHD Nadi filter have a multiple benefits for the poor communities, once install Nadi filter unit at their household level than:

•  1 one Nadi filter unit can save 5 to 10 US $ per month of a family
•  save cost of travel and transportation as canal water or ground water can be filtered for drinking purposes 
•  Women work load reduced to fetch drinking water from 1-2 km away from their house
•  women and children health improved and about US $ 10 to 20 saved on monthly basis for 1 family (saved from water borne diseases)
•  Energy saving as local material used to prepare Nadi filter unit
•  from 1 Nadi filter unit 20 to 30 people can have safe and clean drinking water ….positive change in society
• Nadi filter unit installation also bring peace in different villages sharing technology will be the source of peace

AHD Business model is a skill based technology, self-explanatory and adoptable at local level all over the world, the vision of AHD Nadi filter to multiply Nadi filters via skills and one by one people learn and promote, Example: during 2006-2007 only 1 to 100 Nadi filters and in 2008 and further on gone high 4,000 to 30,000 and when our team count in Dec 2021 gone 85,500 to 300,000. Now in Pakistan some 07 NGOs doing this and helping their people

And AHD's FES Cooking stove, made of mud can help rural people cook safely and efficiently, so that the smoke won't come directly to their faces and they can prevent various throat and eye infections, till the date thousands of people are using the FES Cooking Stove efficiently and living a healthier livestyle.

AHD wants to trained Nadi filter and FES Cooking stove skills on large scale and help people to use these technologies and save themselves from drinking contaminated water and help their brothers and sisters from many diseases.

• Do you primarily provide products or services directly to individuals, to other organizations, or to the government?

AHD primarily help poor rural people and then NGOs and INGOs and community leaders, NGOs and Government offers support and partnerships for their poor rural people, what we experienced so far in Pakistan and Uganda and Kenya

AHD is the member of Global Giving US and UK and raising funds for different projects monthly basis, Global Giving give wonderful space to AHD as monthly donation reach Pakistan and we do help people and reach our targets

2ndly AHD raise funds via Donors/call for applications and proposal submission

3rdly AHD website www.ahdpak.org receive funds via bank donations

4th AHD has experts and staff who creates links and video and media active for fund raising

5ht AHD has income generations schemes to raise funds for Nadi filter technology

please see below links

Website: http://www.ahdpak.org/

LinkedIn Network: https://www.linkedin.com/in/a-khurshid-bhatti-25698b10/

Facebook Network: https://www.facebook.com/khurshid.bhatti

AHD Won GSK- UK “Healthcare Innovation Award https://youtu.be/9Tcukhbxzm0

Nadi Filter drinking water video:  https://youtu.be/bdLjSxo8k-0

Video of Kisumu Africa Women Happy: https://youtu.be/iNc-3E2LB6g

AHD Won ENERGY GLOBE https://www.energyglobe.info/pakistan2019?cl=en&id=331184

AHD started searching sustainable solutions in 2005-2006 and comes up with number of solutions to uplift rural poor communities and introduced Nadir filter in just ONE village and then 10 Nadi filters, in 2007 AHD started work in 100 families with ADP USA and during 2008 AHD won APFED showcase award for 1,000 families in Jati area and then 2008-2021 AHD supported by Oxfam Pakistan, Help Alliance Germany, Lufthansa Airline, WHO Pakistan, GSK UK, Misereor Germany, Care International, SDPI Islamabad, UNEP-APFED and ADP & Oxfam GB. AHD successfully reached 85,500 families and with other NGOs the total Nadi filters reached in Pakistan figures goes 300,000 in Pakistan rural people, NGOs, INGOs and private organizations doing this and helping poor rural people with access to safe and clean drinking water in 3 million people.

AHD started Nadi filter from 1 family and one Nadi filter in 2006 and in 2007 10 and 100 and in 2008 Nadi filter 1,000 and than yearly 3,000 to 12,000 per year