A Year Later: "We really want to express our sincere thanks."

Whenever the students or teachers needed water last year at St. Paul's, they had to leave the school campus to find it.

"Before the rehabilitation of the school well, there were constraints as to where to get water for both the pupils and the teachers as well," said Daniel Samura, 55-year-old headtacher of St. Paul's Roman Catholic School.

"Sometimes, we [used] to send the pupils to go all the way to the swamp to fetch water to drink from it, which was not pure, but we just [had] to drink from it. There was no alternate source to get pure and safe drinking water as [there] is now, and it [caused] diseases like cholera and diarrhea on us."

But since we rehabilitated the school's well, all that has changed.

"After the rehabilitation of this well, we really want to express our sincere thanks to [you] for [your] immediate response to our aid," Daniel said. "Now, the pupils no longer have to go to the swamp. We have less problems [with] road accidents and lateness to school. Above all, [we have] less sickness as to waterborne diseases."

Thankfully, reliable water and improved hygiene are part of the daily routine at St. Paul's.

"Now the school has pure and safe drinking water," Daniel concluded. "There is enough water to do our agriculture in the school compound. The sanitation of the school is now in order."