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In the remote village of Jarawater, Sindh, Christian and Hindu families struggle daily without access to clean drinking water or sanitation.
Women walk long distances through fields to fetch contaminated canal water, risking their health and dignity.
Responding to their plea, BACA plans to install a water pump and build a community washroom to restore safety and dignity.
Your support can help transform lives by turning their cry for clean water into lasting hope.
In Pakistan’s Sindh province, the water crisis continues to deepen — and rural minority communities suffer the most. On 20th October 2025, families from Jarawater village, Halla Sindh reached out to the British Asian Christian Association (BACA) through our volunteer Daniyal Masih, pleading for help to install a clean water pump and construct a community washroom.
The Struggle for Water and Dignity
The United Nations recognises access to clean water and sanitation as a fundamental human right, yet millions in Pakistan still live without it. In Sindh’s rural regions, water scarcity and open defecation remain daily realities — especially for marginalised Christian and Hindu communities.
Most men in Jarawater work in banana fields, while women toil in cotton fields for meagre daily wages. Despite their hard labour, they lack even the most basic necessity — safe drinking water.
BACA’s volunteer Daniyal Masih travelled 60km to reach the remote community and witnessed their struggle first-hand:
“The villagers fetch water from an irrigation canal that runs past their homes. The same water is used for washing, cleaning, and drinking. It’s completely unsafe — and children are constantly falling ill.”
Women walk long distances through dense bushes to collect dirty canal water in plastic bottles, balancing them on their heads as they return home. Many families report stomach infections and fevers, especially among children and the elderly.
Women risk their health daily, fetching contaminated canal water for their families in Jarawater, Sindh
The hardship extends beyond water. The absence of toilets forces residents into open fields. For women, this brings humiliation and danger.
“We feel disgraced,” said Nuri Bibi, lowering her eyes. “We must go into the cotton fields at night, and sometimes the field owners scold or chase us away.”
Nuri Bibi explains the daily struggle women face fetching water from distant canals in Jarawater
BACA’s Next Step: Clean Water and Sanitation for All
BACA has already provided water pumps and sanitation facilities to several rural Sindh villages, transforming lives and restoring dignity. Now, we are preparing to do the same for Jarawater’s Christian and Hindu families, who have no safe source of drinking water or access to sanitation.
Your support can make this life-changing project possible — providing clean water, better health, and dignity to families who have endured too long without them.
Juliet Chowdhry, Trustee of the British Asian Christian Association:
“It breaks my heart that in 2025, Christian and Hindu families in Pakistan still drink from contaminated canals and live without toilets. Access to clean water is not a luxury — it is a basic human right. With your help, we can bring safety, health, and hope to the people of Jarawater.”
💧 Help Bring Clean Water to Jarawater Your donation can help provide essential water facilities for vulnerable Christian and Hindu families in Sindh — £750 funds the installation of a water pump, and £2,000 provides a community washroom.
