Stories from the Field
As we work to provide water, we're committed to helping people like you meet your global neighbors and to realize that we all share the same basic needs. We hope to break down stereotypes and the false distinctions between the so-called winners and losers, rich and poor, the needy and charitable, by introducing you to the people we serve with the respect and admiration they rightfully deserve.
These are stories of hope, told in the words of those who carry out this work every day - our friends in the field.
A Year Later: Accessibility is the Song of the Community
"Before the completion of the [protected] spring, the spring was open to contamination, which was risky to the community members," said 20-year-old tailor, Esther Maongo. "Typhoid was the song [of] the community." Before its protection last year, Govet Lumbasi Spring constantly infected its community members with water-related diseases. And during...
A Year Later: No More Stomachaches!
Before we built a rain tank at KG Jeptorol Primary School, everyone used the water students were able to fetch from outside of the school grounds. Pupils would juggle their books along with heavy containers of water, depleting their energy before their school day had even begun. Students were often absent, and there was no end to the crisis in sigh...
A Year Later: "Water-related diseases are now a thing of the past"
Gloria Z., a 13-year-old student at St. Joakim Buyangu Primary School, shared what life was like for her before we installed a rain tank at her school last year. "Water was scarce in this institution," said Gloria. "Students, on several occasions, were requested to carry water to school for use. This was indeed tiresome, forcing me [to] abscond [f...
A Year Later: A Savings and Sanitation Solution
"Before this water point was rehabilitated, all the rods and pipes were worn out and they had leakages," said 65-year-old farmer Johnson Kyomya. He was elected as the chairperson of the well's water user committee last year and has served as the well's caretaker ever since. "We would make several pump strokes before water [would] start flowing," J...
A Year Later: New Dreams of Helping Others
The community members in Ematetie struggled to collect water from Amasetse Spring before we protected it last year. They had to scoop water up using small containers to fill their jugs and very often had to wait hours for the water to clear up enough to use. Eight-year-old, Javan W., said, "I was not able to get water on my own because it was not ...