“During our visits to the slums, we realised that the underprivileged masses of the city in the slum areas do not have access to safe drinking water, which actually results in them having various water-borne diseases. Clean drinking water is even more scarce. We wanted to change their dilapidated living standards and decided to distribute water filters in the slum areas. Therefore, the campaign ‘Elixir-Shudh Paani ki Shapat’ was born. This campaign is a pledge to provide pure drinking water to slum dwellers,” say Manya Karla and Sana Kharbana, students of Shri Ram School in Gurgaon, who started this campaign in 2016.
The funds obtained have been used to purchase non-electric water filters from Tata Chemicals. During their distribution drives, Tata also provided training to the dwellers on how to use and replace the bulb in water filters.
The structure of the city always reflects the disparity in the accessibility of basic resources.
As the quality of water also determines the quality of their lives, accessibility to safe drinking water will definitely help them have some parity with others in their lives.