One of the local villages we visited had water pump that had stopped working months ago. They began to walk miles away from the village to get their water as they had in the past before the water pump had been installed. They didn’t know how to fix so they just left it.
We were told one of the problems with getting clean water into the villages is teaching the residents how to use it, maintain it and to do the repairs if it breaks down. It’s hard to assign a person or group of persons in a small village to oversee that type of job when they have their own daily jobs to do.
In this photo (that was taken from inside our van) a man is gathering water from the stream and putting it in a five-gallon bucket. He'll then will then travel with it on the motorcycle possibly miles away back to his village.
I was amazed by the outlook the people in the villages had, they don’t seem to get discouraged about things that don’t work, they just keep moving forward and find an alternate route to get something accomplished.
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