A Year Later: "This is a blessing"

Last year, before the well was rehabilitated at COG Prophecy Primary School, students spent far too much time outside of class crossing a dangerous road to collect water.

"The children sometimes had to go across the road to fetch drinking water, which [was] very risky because the school is located on the highway to [the] ferry terminal, and [it] is very busy," said 48-year-old teacher Yvonne Lewis.

But now things are different since the school has its own reliable, safe water solution on campus, and students no longer have to trek across the road.

"It [is] good for drinking now, and the children are no longer going across to the next well to fetch water," said Yvonne.

She continued: "For a school to have clean and safe drinking water is a great achievement as it is the requirement from [the] government that all schools should provide safe drinking water for the pupils in the school compound. This is a blessing for me, my school, and [the] community by extension."

Yvonne outside the rehabilitated well.