Wednesday, September 23, 2009

From 4 hours to 5 Minutes

The day we left Gairo Musa from the VSA office in Arusha came down to see our work and to collect some items VSA had provided for the house we had been staying in. We took him on a tour of 15 wells. Musa was able to talk to the local villagers very well. One woman came up to talk to him as she could not talk to us with our limited Swahili. She was telling him how thankful they were to get this water. This particular village had no other water source and they had to walk many kms or 4 or so hours sometimes to get 20 liters of water. Now they have water a 5 min walk from their house. It is not an unlimited amount of water and they have to pump somewhat hard to lift water from that depth, but at least it is some water for them. That is what we came for.

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