A Year Later: No More Tardiness for Students!

Last year, before we added a well to Bompa Morie Community, people at the far end of town would have to walk for 30 minutes or more to fetch water from the community's well. Most of the time, they opted to fetch water from the closer stream instead, but this led to other issues.

"Before, it was really tough for us, the school-going children, because we [would] have to go all the way to the swamp very early in the morning to fetch water," said 16-year-old Konie K. "During the period of that, we [would] normally go to school late."

With a two-mile walk to school on top of their journey to the stream, schoolchildren would have no chance of getting to school on time or having enough energy to complete their schoolwork. But now, with another well on their side on the community, everything has changed.

"We now have a pure and safe water [source] in the village," Konie said. "As a result, we go to school on time. We now have time to rest in the morning before going to school."