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Drop4Drop

Our water pledge

Every car we clean helps fund clean water

We have partnered with Drop4Drop since December 2014 — a charity working to alleviate the world water crisis. In 2018 we reached our goal and funded a well of our own.

Water is the one thing we cannot valet without, which makes it very easy to take for granted. Roughly one in nine people in the world have no safe water source at all, so for every car we clean, Mobile Car Spa HQ puts a donation towards a Drop4Drop water project.

After a number of years of partnership we were able to fund our own well for the people of a small community of Bichi, in Mzimba, Malawi — and we are already saving towards the next one.

The well funded by Mobile Car Spa in Bichi, Mzimba, Malawi

The well we funded

Completed in 2018, and now the clean water source for a community of 102 people.

  • Bichi Community
  • Mzimba, Malawi Location
  • 102 People served
  • 2018 Completed

This village had wells already dug, but they were not clean enough for the children to use safely. Throughout the country millions of people are forced to risk their own health and that of their families, because they have no reliable and safe water source to drink from. The real danger of contracting nasty illnesses, and even catching life-threatening diseases, is exactly what Drop4Drop projects aim to eradicate.

When the people of Bichi heard about Drop4Drop, they quickly asked for assistance in their village. They are very thankful, and now enjoy good clean water thanks to their new pump. Drop4Drop's mission in Malawi is not only to provide local communities with specialised water wells and pumps that suit their situation, but to give them the tools and knowledge they need to maintain and use the equipment for themselves.

Project location S-12.003987, E33.479872. More pictures of the project are on the Drop4Drop website at drop4drop.org/projects/bichi-mzimba.

  • The completed well in Bichi, Mzimba, Malawi
  • The pump at the Bichi well being used
  • A Drop4Drop community water project
  • Villagers collecting clean water from a Drop4Drop pump
  • Children at a Drop4Drop water project

The problems faced

The numbers that made us set the pledge up in the first place.

  • 663 million

    people in the world do not have access to safe water — roughly one in nine of the world's population.

  • 200 million

    miles are walked every day by women and children collecting water that is often dirty and unsafe.

  • Half

    of the world's hospital beds are filled with people suffering from water related diseases. (UN)

  • 443 million

    school days are lost each year due to water related illness. (WHO/UNICEF)

  • 1.5 million

    children die every year due to water related diseases.

  • More than war

    the water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns. (UN)

More on our partnership

The story so far, told in our words and in Drop4Drop's.

Who Drop4Drop are

A UK charity funding wells and pumps for communities with no safe water source, and giving those communities the tools and knowledge to look after the equipment themselves.

Visit drop4drop.org