By Sage Lancaster | Project Leader
Every family needs to have a way to carry water to and from the water pumps in their villages, or from a source far away in a village that does not have a pump. There are no pipes to villages, or faucets, even standing pipes. Water is often many miles away across the desert. But for some families things have got worse. We are sad to say that 2018 is the first year we have ever known that families have been sharing the use of a jerry can to fetch water. Halima from Um Jum Jum, a village we adopted this year, has been sharing her neighbour’s jerry can because hers had cracked some time ago. There are many women doing the same - no one has enough to drink. Sharing a jerry can means sharing the precious water you have walked miles across the desert to collect – the only water your family will have that day. How could you part with it?
We need your help more than ever to build a new handpump! It is so important that we keep moving forward, bringing clean water handpumps close to more of our villages. And Jerry cans are always needed, whether water is nearby or far away, and every family needs three or four. We must bring handpumps as close to villages as possible for the safety of communities. It is not just their parents who walk for water, it's the children too. This means they cannot go to school. When we install a handpump near a village, every little boy and girl can go to school every day - and education gives them a chance to improve their lives as they get older.
So, right now we need more jerry cans for clean water for each and every family, and money for our water fund so we can drill for more handpumps. It is a problem that together, we can solve today. Together, we can build clean water pumps that make the journey safer and shorter.
Might you pause for a moment and think what your life would be like if you had to share a can of water - your only water - with your neighbours? What can you do today to help us change that reality for the families of Darfur?
Thank you for everything you have done so far, but we need your help a bit more please?
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