General Info:
Safe water and sanitation are basic human rights! Affordable Plumbers is building a global database of plumbing and mechanical volunteers and the humanitarian organizations working to increase access to safe water and sanitation. We are a grass-roots, volunteer-driven organization. We extend an open invitation to anyone wishing to help us develop, whether it be with social media, organizational structure, partnership formations, project recommendations, news stories, fundraising, committees, and educational outreach, your participation is important! To connect and mobilize volunteer plumbers and industry resources with organizations and projects dedicated to safe water and sanitation. Affordable Plumbers is building an online database network of volunteers, organizations and projects. We believe that by connecting plumbing volunteers and industry resources with organizations and their projects, everyone benefits, and we move closer to reaching the ultimate goal of improving health in all communities, worldwide. Our vision is a world where everyone has access to safe water and sanitation – where senseless suffering and disease is eradicated by the implementation of appropriate plumbing and sanitary systems. Training and education, in the prevention of water-borne diseases, and the implementation of safe and sustainable sanitary systems is critical to building and improving local capacity in all communities, whether developed or developing. All building trades and related services and products are welcome and needed. Affordable Plumbers is a grassroots effort, born from the desire to help people in dire need, where human suffering and disease is caused in part by a lack of safe plumbing and hygienic sanitation. Affordable Plumbers Standard is dedicated to raising the standard in daily living through life improving performance and responsible innovation for health, safety, comfort and conservation at home, at work and around the world.