Giving Update: Ataku Community, Ngache Spring

"Before protection, fetching water from the spring was very hard and muddy, and sometimes during the rainy season, you could slide and get hurt. The method I used to fetch water was down on the ground and there was no drawing point. Whenever I had to fetch water, I had to wait for it to clear because when one person used to fetch, the water was disturbed and I had to wait for it to settle, then fetch."

"After protection, it has really simplified and helped me since I come to the spring six times a day to get water in twenty-liter jerrycans. It has made fetching water fun."

"My parents' vegetables during the dry season are healthy since I can manually water the vegetables, and I can even plan to do laundry many times a week."

Irene fetches water while other community members wait in line at the spring.