Mega Project 1st Blog -Group 1

Human Health Care (Drinking Water Awareness)

Hafiz Husnain
Aug 24, 2017 · 7 min read

’’At Amal Academy our group has assigned a mega project, in which we have to make prolong impact on the society. After brain storming group members have come up with the idea of working for human health care, and major focus is drinking water In Faisalabad.’’

Problem on which we are working:

’’We are working in terms of raising awareness about drinking and water borne diseases related to it. In this regard we want to help the unaware people of the city Faisalabad and its surrounding villages to meet the basic health needs and can protect themselves by following basic health tips and awareness.Our keen interest id to make people understand that prevention is better than cure. So, why don’t we follow the health standards to get protected from the deadly problems than getting indulge in it and striving for cure.’’

Why we want to work on this problem:

’’We want to work on this problem because drinking water problem is one of the burning issues in under developing countries like our own country like Pakistan most affected district of our country Faisalabad and its surroundings due to intense emissions of the hazardous by the industrial chemical water without treatment for the past 3 or 4 decades by industrial sector. Now the ground water table also got affected by emission which is dreadful health threat for its population and even not fit for the irrigation purpose to crops and plants. Mainly to make people aware of its hazardous ground or any water, People use its affects like water borne diseases e.g. cholera, dysentery, amoebas, diarrhea, typhoid fever, and the most dreadful hepatitis C also rises due to mixing of waste water into water channels and most importantly every 3rd or 4th person in Faisalabad victimized with these diseases because of unawareness of the local people and not following the health measures properly.

According to a case study in city Faisalabad (determination of safe drinking water in Faisalabad)

Polluted drinking water is a major threat to health in developing countries most of the diseases are due to polluted water. Cholera and diarrhea become a cause of the death of 1.8 million people every year. And 88% cases of diarrhea are credited to poor sanitation and insecure water supply. little attention is being paid to drinking water quality issues. Water supply agencies only prioritize quantity related problems. In short, there is a lack of drinking-water quality monitoring and surveillance programs in the country. There might be various factors which determine household behavior regarding household consumption of safe water.’’

Water quality……. A question mark?

Steps we have planned:

Steps will plan to follow for this social cause

1- To give awareness lecture by going personally to district schools and colleges

2- Publish pamphlets for this perspective and start awareness campaign by giving pamphlets of health tips door to door in district city and backward areas.

3- We will also make a blog on social media to make this social act more impact full for the wide ranges as it can.

4- We will also conduct drinking water samples for examination, perspective from different areas and make respective people aware for the water fitness for drinking purpose.

5- For this we will also conduct fund raising through public channels to make the social impact of kindness more efficiently going.

6- Have developed a page on Facebook on the name of Human Health Care

https://www.facebook.com/humanhealthcare92/

’’We have completed a step that we have gone in university different classes and have delivered lecture on awareness of water quality and water borne diseases, and how these can be prevented by drinking safe and pure water. And most importantly motivated the students that It’s a matter of concern, inform people around yourself as we are informing you and keeps the impact going on.’’

’’We have arranged some pamphlets and distributed these pamphlets to the villages around Faisalabad. Written on the pamphlets the causes of water pollution, diseases and prevention to avoid these diseases, by drinking quality water.’’

Challenges:

1-Coordination with the team members and managing time with every group member was a challenge as all have other activities. i.e. university classes.

2-Just starting that implementation which we have planned was difficult from where to start, so we all have started from our university classes

3-Convincing students that your part really matters and you all should help the society for this purpose.

4-Going from class to class in such intense summer from 1 pm- 4 pm was really challenging and hectic job.

Although we have faced a few challenges, we have enjoyed it a lot and all we feel inner happiness in our hearts which we never felt before. First time we feel that we are making our part to our society as a citizen.

Fund raising:

’’We have a plan for fund raising but it is a difficult one because we are students and have no authority for collecting funds, so we have started from our own pocket, each group member have invested money for pamphlets, we have further plans for water quality testing of some area for this we have to raise funds.’’

How we have involved social media:

’’We have made a page on Facebook on the name of Human Health Care and invite all friends to like the page.

And all group members have done post on daily basis on the page about drinking water awareness.

We have shared our page in the Batch 36th Amal Fellows so that we can engage other fellows with our project and from their suggestion we can improve our ideas and project.

Have written a blog on the medium.com so that world can come to know Amal Fellows are making a impact on the society and they can help us voluntarily if they want.’’

How many ideas we came up with and how did we finalize this project:

’’Many ideas were raised in our minds regarding basic health care, like Air pollution, Water pollution and other types of pollution but the city in which we live, Faisalabad is mostly polluted by water pollution because the agriculture and industrial wastes are major sources of pollution here, so we decided to select water pollution and gave drinking water awareness to the residents.’’

How we divided the tasks within the group:

’’As a group leader, I divided different tasks between the group members like , Hannan was assigned to go to their department classes and ask for permission for campaign and the poster is also designed by Hannan. Similarly I designed & printed the posters by going to bazaar and took their copies. Abubakar, Nazia, Bareera and Fiza also took part in these activities by helping me in performing different tasks.’’

Impact and sustainability of our project:

’’Our project has a great impact on our society because drinking water pollution is a major cause of different diseases and deaths. If we succeeded in our goal of drinking water awareness then we can save many lives and can save people from different diseases. Our project has a great sustainability because it is a social cause and many people are joining us in this social cause and by the grace of Allah Almighty it will become more fruitful.’’

Next two week plans:

’’In coming weeks we are planning to spread our campaign to the schools and colleges. We are planning to visit different schools and colleges and will give basic human health care and drinking water awareness tips. We will also mention the different types of techniques which are used to pure water at home level and can be used for drinking purpose safely.’’

Regards,

Group 1- Leader: Hafiz Husnain & Members: Abubakar, Hannan, Fiza, Nazia, Bareera, Chanda

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