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Pumping life back into Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone has suffered badly in the last few years. With the war that lasted over a decade from 1991 to 2002, it caused a dramatic shift in resource management in the area. There are huge bodies of water, but the majority of it is either inaccessible because of the terrain, or deeply contaminated. Large numbers of hand pumps are also broken, and “wells” are usually just pits of ground where the water breaks open to the surface.
The Water Project partnered with Living Water International provides a discretionary fund where they pay $3,000 per damaged well in the region. In most circ**stances, the repairs are actually either overhauls of severely-damaged wells, or the complete replacement of them. If it is the latter and happens to be a water pit the well must be cased in an enclosure, capped to prevent the water from escaping back into the topsoil and have a hand pump attached to access the resource. During this process communities are given training for the work when building new wells, so they can assist in its development, and then a follow-up to help with sustainability concerns. The project also addresses the fallout from the war, by training child-soldiers and women in how to properly build and maintain the wells.
By providing the equipment to repair broken wells and educate inhabitants of settlements proper hygiene and health when using them, the result is that the relief effort ensures people are given the help they need to get started, and the expertise to sustain a better water supply for them and their children.
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