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Wheels of change: UK NGO makes carrying water easy

Article Published In The Times Of India On Mar 13, 2020, 04.04 AM IST Nashik: A UK-based NGO has relieved 69 women of Sangamner village in Dindori taluka of the burden of carrying vessels of water from the wells to their houses. NGO ‘Wells on Wheels’ contributed water-wheel carts to these women. Members of the British rock band ‘Alexis Kings’ distributed the carts during their maiden visit to the country. “We had joined hands with the NGO in UK, which asked us to do the noble work. We are happy to have contributed to the noble cause in our own way,” the band members told TOI. A private company designed the carts in a way such that it has a capacity to carry 45 litre of water at one go and is easy to pull. The cart has a large round leak-proof drum with a cap made out of a food-grade human-safe high-density polyethylene, which can be rolled along the ground for easier transport. The carts can handle wear and tear for upto 7,000km. The NGO had started distributing such carts in Maharash
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Shaz Memon vows to change lives for 1 million girls in rural India

Shaz Memon is one of the most successful design entrepreneurs in the world being the CEO and founder of Digimax and Digimax Dental. Shaz is a multi-grant winning business person, creator and most recently victor of the Corporate Social Responsibility 2019 award of the year. He is additionally another and rising altruist as the organizer of a one of a kind cause, Wells on Wheels which is changing lives for a great many young ladies and families in provincial Indian towns with his Water Wheels. What has amazed most in reading the reports of people in lockdown in recent weeks is how so many in the west are completely unaware of the hardships that most of the world’s population confront daily. From drought to thirst to a variety of public health dangers, it is only with COVID-19 that western people are coming to see a slice of what the rest of the world has had to deal with daily. One such issue that most never think about as we turn to fill up our kettle with water is basic plumbing.
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