Water
In rural Peru, safe water is transforming daily life: protecting children’s health, keeping girls in school, and giving families time to work, learn, and thrive. Through community leadership and local ownership, sustainable water systems are creating opportunities that last for generations.
Imagine carrying the weight of water on your head for miles, after waking up at 2 am to walk to the source. For Hakika, that burden has shaped her life…
For Grace, every day at the Nghambi Health Clinic in Mpwapwa District, she balanced risk and necessity – treating patients while lacking access to both running water and proper sanitation. As…
Driven by wanting a different future for her daughters, Teresa organized the effort to get clean water to all the families in her community in Guatemala.
Jean is a teacher. “I like teaching! I was always excited to be a teacher,” he shares, his passion evident. Jean began his career in Kigali, spending several years teaching…
“We had two springs we used for water, but they have dried up. The mayor brought water in a cistern once a week, but it was not enough. To wash clothes, we went to the river, but it was far away.”
Situated between hills, this hard-to-reach village is in the Chiradzulu District in southern Malawi. A mild, cool climate attracted settlers from nearby Mozambique in the early ‘90s who were in search of land for farming. However, this pursuit of greener pasture led to a major problem – lack of water.
“Before, the wait for water used to begin in the dark at 4 a.m.”
The Rugarama Village sits between hills and valleys in the southwestern region of Uganda, within the Kamwenge District. In this community, approximately 80 households were using one borehole as a water source. However, the pipes broke down and the village was left without safe water.
When she married ten years ago, Alphonsine moved to her new home in Rurembo Village, Gicumbi, a district in the north. As happy as she was to have married the love of her life, Alphonsine knew she would face one big challenge – accessing water.