Thank You To Everyone Who Drank Life Water at Glastonbury 2024

“My name is Adior Nhial. I’m 37 years old. I’m a mother of five kids: three boys and two girls. They’re not attending school due to difficulties I’m having. I just went to the forest to collect firewood to sell in the market. When I sell firewood, I buy flour in the market for food for my children. If firewood remains without anyone buying it, my children will remain hungry because there’s no food at home to eat. I also decided to plant some tobacco crops around the well here to support my life and my children with my business. I reside in Mantang village, where we usually collect safe water from the Mantang borehole. Most of our people are healthy now because we have been using well water for a long time. We don’t have neighboring wells. We try to take good care of this well, but it breaks in time. When it breaks, we all face many challenges: there is no good water for drinking, cooking, bathing, washing dishes, and finally, irrigation of the crops that we planted down there. Those crops can support our lives, too, because when there’s enough water to plant a big garden, you will eventually earn good money. No water is where our crops get dry quickly, which is a loss of our properties. Now, we are grateful to the team for the great support they have given us this evening. They repaired our well, and now we are enjoying safe, clean water for our use. We are now ready to cook, drink, bathe, wash, and finally water our crops immediately.”

Adior Nhial, 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.