Kindly Donated By ESS Defence & Offshore Through Purchases Of Life Water

“My name is Rebecca Ajok Mawien, and I am a mother of five children—two boys and three girls. I am doing my best to send two boys and two girls to school. Unfortunately, two of my children had to drop out due to the economic crisis, which made it impossible for us to continue supporting their education. My husband and I are both farmers, and we do not have enough money to send all of our children to school. Now, we are focusing on keeping the two boys who are still in school from dropping out, and we are working as hard as we can to support them. When our well broke, people suffered a lot because we had to collect water from very far away, which caused pain in our bodies, especially in our heads and necks. Sometimes, people had to go to bed without food because the neighboring well could not supply the entire village with water. Washing clothes, utensils, and bathing would be delayed for up to two days because people prioritized water for drinking and cooking. People from neighboring areas often fought, quarreled, and even taxed us when we tried to collect water. Today, we are very excited because our well has been repaired. Now, we can get clean water right here at the well. We no longer have to walk far, carrying jerry cans on our heads for two to three hours. We can drink, bathe, wash, and cook freely today compared to the days when we had no clean water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and washing. Water can make us alive all because no water no life we are very glad to WESI Team for their commitment they have have to repaired our well We can not be thirsty anymore.”

Ajok Mawien, Community Member.

This project was undertaken as part of our campaign of projects that actively reduce carbon emissions. This project helped the community save their much needed wood which was previously being burnt daily to boil water. This project has also eliminated the many thousands of hours previously spent on walking to collect water.