Safe village water is something we’ve been talking a lot about lately. And that’s for a really important reason. Because it changes lives. Now and forever. This is the experience in one village where we recently opened a bore.
We recently turned on the tap of a new bore. And when that happened, lives changed. Every water bore changes the life of between 1,500 and 2,000 people. In this village in India people mostly work as farmers and labourers. Some women work as housemaids and others stay at home. That was before COVID. Now work is very short, almost non-existent.
Children had to walk to neighbouring villages to get water. These villages were long distances away. The children would often spill some of their water as they made the long walk home after filling their buckets.
There was a hand well in the village but the small amount of water that could be pumped was extremely polluted. This caused sickness which in turn kept children away from the CDC when they were not well.