A Year Later: Entire Community Has Access to Water!

Aminata K., 15, shared her strong feelings about suffering without access to clean, safe water before her community installed a new well last year. She said, "I hated those days in my life as a child where one had to wake up very early in the morning to go to the swamp to fetch water before going to school and also in the evening after school. I had to do the same thing every day. [It] was a challenging and painful moment for me. At some point, I hated being born in this village, but I had no choice and nowhere else to go stay."

But since the new well, she and her community have access to safe, clean water, and she feels very differently. "Now, I am grateful and jubilant having this facility completed in my community. The water is safe and available at all times, and it is at the center of the town, which everyone can access."

Aminata (on the left with blue headscarf) with community members at the well.