Gavadi hamlet located in Kumbharde Gram Panchayat of Mahad block isn’t the most accessible hamlet in the block. Due to its remote location on the hill, travelling to and fro to the town was a big problem.

Though this hamlet had an existing open well with tap connection at home – its pipelines were severely damaged and required heavy maintenance. In 2015-16, Swades Foundation built a new pump and liftline from the source to fulfill the hamlet’s water requirements.

In 2018, during the monsoons, the open well became defunct due to wear and tear and the entire hamlet faced severe water shortage. They had to go downhill for almost a kilometer to the river for fetching water. There were times when 4 days at a stretch they didn’t get any water and life came to a standstill.

They filed a request letter to the Swades Foundation for support. We came and did our geophysical survey to identify a new source and were successful. With partner SAR Group (Livpure Foundation), we built a new open well source (picture shared separately) and realigned pipelines to this new source to get water into each of the 70 homes.

Since then, life in the hamlet has revived and they are overjoyed by the timely support brought by Swades and its partners like SAR Group.