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Our Mission The Healthy Hands Initiative is a 501c3 nonprofit organization based out of UNC Chapel Hill. We seek to provide sustainable clean water solutions to underserved families and studentsinitially in the Bokaro district of northeast Indiain order to reduce the rates of prevalent preventable diseases and work towards promoting social welfare and healthcare in our targeted areas. HELPING THOSE IN NEED The Healthy Hands Initiative solution is centered around installing Afridev handpumps across several Bokaro district villages and monitoring their maintenance over a fivetotenyear period with the help of our community partner Jan Chetna Manch Bokaro. Particular focus will be given to the boring and casing process during installation since our URCT team found strong evidence that insufficiently deep boring and lowquality casing decrease handpump durability.