The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Water Bore Is Funded. The Work Has Started.
The water bore in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is fully funded. All one hundred shares.
The last of them landed just after midnight on Sunday. Nobody was watching. That is usually how it goes.
KPK, up in the north west of Pakistan. Delivery is now underway.
What "underway" actually means
Funding a project and building one are separate events, and we keep them separate on purpose. The money for this bore sat against this bore. It was not moved, not pooled, not spent early on something that looked closer to target. It waited for the hundredth share.
Now it moves. The project goes to our field team with a commissioning brief: the location, the specification, the timeline, and the reporting we require back before anyone signs it off. That brief is the thing that turns a funded page into a site with people standing on it.
First comes the survey. The team walks the ground with the community, because a well in the wrong place is a well nobody uses. Then the shaft is drilled and cased down to clean water. Then the pump is fitted, hand-operated, no electricity and no fuel, so the village can keep it running without us. Then a concrete apron and a drainage channel, so spilled water runs away from the well head instead of pooling around it and undoing the point of the whole thing.
Then it is handed to the village and marked with a permanent plaque.
Build and installation usually take ten to fourteen weeks from here. Access conditions in rural KPK can move that. If it moves, we will say so.
What comes back to you
Photographs at each stage, rather than one triumphant picture at the end. A completion report saying what was delivered and for whom. The village and the district. GPS coordinates where we can verify them, and nothing where we cannot, because a coordinate we have not checked is worse than no coordinate at all.
All of it lands on your Akhirah Portfolio and stays there. You will be able to open it in five years and the evidence will still be sitting where you left it.
The people who funded it
The gifts came in over months. Some took a single share. The last one took fourteen in one go and closed the project in the middle of the night. Most of these people do not know each other and never will.
Between them they have put clean water in front of 80 to 150 people a day, for a decade and more. The women who walk hours for water get those hours back. The children who get sick from what they drink stop getting sick from what they drink. None of that requires anybody to be remembered for it.
The Prophet ﷺ said: "The best charity is giving water to drink." (Musnad Ahmad; also Sunan Abu Dawud, narrated Sa'd ibn Ubadah)
Sa'd ibn Ubadah (RA) asked that question after his mother died, and the answer he was given was water. So he dug a well for her. It is the oldest form of Sadaqah Jariyah we have and it is still the plainest.
What we will not do
We will not tell you this is finished before it is finished.
There is a version of this update that runs a photograph of a completed pump and lets you assume. We have completed pumps, in Pakistan and in Mika, and those photographs belong to those projects rather than to this one.
This one is drilled when it is drilled. You will hear from us when it is.
Irfan Akram, Co-Founder and Chair, SDQA. The hundredth share is the quietest moment in the whole process and the only one that matters.
