WATER is a precious commodity. Unfortunately in Africa there is hardly ever a ‘happy medium’: either drought or flood. In Bla (Mali) there was drought and the Soroptimists provided a well. The villages built a market garden and the next year it was flooded out – completely destroyed!
This is not an isolated incident – all over Africa communities are coping with the situation. And some walk for hours daily to collect their daily ration. Always women. Women walking, leading donkeys, women sitting on carts loaded with buckets, women on foot; with buckets, basins and pitchers.
For a women to be free to learn, earn and care for her family she has to be free from this time and labour consuming task – and that is what the Soroptimists are doing – by building wells they are giving the women in the community the chance for a better life.
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