Help Restore Drinking Water to Pakistan’s Snow Leopard Conservation Communities

This summer, Khawaja Aman Ullah had to watch helplessly as his beloved village of Mori in Pakistan's Chitral district - like dozens of other communities - was devastated by floods and landslides. 

Across Northern Pakistan, more than 150 people died, and thousands remain in urgent need of help, as homes and drinking water supplies across the area have been destroyed in the disaster.

Mori is one of our snow leopard conservation partner communities, and Khawaja Aman Ullah, a passionate advocate for wildlife, is the head of the local conservation committee. 

As a conservation organization, we don’t usually get involved in humanitarian relief efforts, but the sheer scale of devastation and suffering in these snow leopard conservation partner communities is just too large for us to stand aside.

We’ve partnered with these people to protect snow leopards for many years, and today, they need our help. 

We won’t be able to help everyone, but we can at least help those we know with their most urgent needs: drinking water and building materials for housing. 

Khawaja and his neighbors have been working hard since the flood to restore infrastructure, but they lack the funds to purchase the necessary water pipes and construction materials to restore their fresh water supply, their homes, their lives.

You can help!

For instance, $15 can purchase 100 feet of water pipe in Pakistan. $80 can buy 10 lightweight plywood board to rapidly rebuild houses.With $200, we can restore Mori's drinking water.

There are plenty of civil engineers, carpenters and skilled laborers in these communities, so with your help, they will be able to purchase the materials they need quickly and get to work immediately.

The Snow Leopard Trust has worked with the people of Koghozi, Mori, Kuju and more than a dozen other villages across Northern Pakistan for almost a decade, partnering with them to protect the endangered snow leopards in the area.

This recent disaster has not only brought suffering and misery to our partners and friends, it also threatens to set back conservation efforts by years, as basic survival has become local resident’s only concern. 

Clean fresh water is essential for people’s health as well as for their livelihood. Livestock no longer have enough to drink, and orchards can’t be irrigated, leading to further suffering.

With this in mind, we’re asking you to please help Khawaja Aman Ullah, his family and neighbors, and our other Pakistani partner communities in this time of need - both for people and wildlife.