Kindly Donated by One Retail Through Purchases of Life Water

“My name is Nyakiir Gook Aramweer. I am a 36-year-old mother of 6 children living in Adiil village with all my children and my husband. We are living a village life of depending on subsistence farming and getting water from the Adiil borehole that broke down on the first week of November 2023. As such, we spent more than two months walking for an hour to the stream in order to fetch water. My house always needs four Jerrycans a day. Therefore, it took my elder daughter 2 hours to go to the stream and two hours to come back, which is four hours of walking per day to provide daily water to the family. Today we have luckily received mechanics who talked with our community and constituted a water Committee comprised of women and men that shall act as the meeting point between the community and mechanics. With this significant change introduced by the WESI mechanics, the faces of every member changed from gloomy to felicitous mood because they thought that they would be scammed again by mechanics because some two fake mechanics swindled them differently as follows; one mechanic who didn’t have any spare part in 2022 took a Bullock but failed to repair the borehole, instead of admitting his failure, he deceived us that there is a damaged part that needed to be replaced and he would sell the Bullock to buy spare part in Wau, however, that marked the end of his stepping on this soil. We waited for two months, assuming that he would come back, but he didn’t turn up. As if that was not enough, our elders hired another local mechanic who tried to repair our borehole to work at low capacity but overcharged us with 90000 ssp as the labor fee, which is too much for labor alone without spare part and, worst of all, his repair didn’t last long. It stopped working after one day. We thought history would repeat itself when we saw this team of mechanics, but they handled it simply by diagnosing the problems where they revealed issues in a pump cylinder and two pipes. They added that they have spare parts, but since the new parts are left in the store and the community was not aware of the spare parts fee, they suggested that they would repair the borehole by fixing the damaged parts and agree on when the community will raise the funds for parts so that they come back with new parts for a final or long-lasting repair. The community was optimistic about the suggestion and gave the green light to it today. They will come back after three days with new spare parts, and the community will raise 72000 ssp for a pump cylinder, two Gi-pipes, and labor. They have now completed a repair of the Adiil borehole to clear the doubts. Everyone at the water point and the whole village became pleased with this wonderful work and have paid 12000 ssp for labor and promised to see each other after three days.” 

Nyakiir Gook Aramweer, 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.