Donated by The Customers of Coastal Food Service and ESS Through Purchases of Cases of Water

“My name is Adoor Mou Aru, I am a 30-year-old man who is married to one wife, and we are blessed with three children. I am a mere member of this community who is so passionate about clean water. When we had difficulties in accessing water at Malual Kuel two days ago, I had to walk for a distance of 30 minutes to Mamer borehole to fetch four jerrycans in a day because my wife is still in maternity period and no other female lady to assist me in fetching water, though it’s very rare for a male to fetch water, the majority were laughing at me as a man who does a woman duty. I resistibly went fetching for two days until i fetched 8 jerrycans of water. This water is being used for drinking, cooking, washing, and bathing at home. However, I was exhausted and felt as if my ribs and neck were dislocated because of the fetching of water at such a distance. Today is a great day to have been rescued by pump mechanics, who quickly intervened through the repair that started yesterday and ended today. They have managed to repair two damaged pipes by replacing one pipe with our new reserved pipe that was kept by the community since 2014 as donated by the rural water corporation when it was rehabilitated. The damage on the other pipe was minor. The threads were worn out and couldn’t hold another pipe. Therefore, the mechanics created new threads and fixed the borehole professionally, which made it effective for water to flow. As I speak, my stress is clearly expelled out, and I will enjoy sleeping without the anxiety of waking up early in the morning to rush for water at Mamer borehole.” 

Adoor Mou Aru, 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.