A Year Later: Access to Water is an Answered Prayer!

Fatmata K. is only 15, but her life has already been very challenging. She shared how getting water was before her community had a well rehabilitated last year. "It was not easy for me. When my father was alive, he used to reason with me and sometimes tell my mother not to send me down [to] the swamp to fetch water in the morning when it was cold out in the rainy season.

"But when he died, my mother remarried, and my stepfather asked me to fetch water for him from the swamp, which is beyond my mom and me. So it was like hell for me before this project was completed in this community."

Thankfully, now that the community has a reliable well, things have changed for Fatmata. "I am happy because the pressure of going down [to] the swamp in cold weather and sometimes in the rains is over. For me, this is a dream come true."

She continued, "This has always been my prayer that someday we will have a water facility in this community, and thank God we have it at our doorsteps."

Fatmata standing outside the well.