Water challenges in African rural areas
Lack of access to clean water is a matter of life and death. Mothers and girls wake up very early in the morning. All get their cans or buckets and start their journey to fetch water. This time in the morning is believed that the stream has its cleanest water. The streams are mostly down hills in the forest and this is why they have to walk in a group. After fetching the water in cans and buckets, they then carry on their backs or heads . Some str eams are seasonal which forces us to go the river water which is mile away from homes. Sheleen Wanjiru On the way to Maralal in the central part of Kenya, far away from the nearest community. Uyoma project A duty of only girls Growing up in Uyoma village of Siaya County in Kenya is quite an experience for any little girl. Back here, fetching water for household use is a duty solely designed and left for the girl child and generally unrivalled even by their boy counterparts. No energy to do homework Fetching water ...
