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Now everyone is getting enough to drink when they need it: SWIFT
brings safe, sustainable water to residents of Kabokorit
What has changed?
Few residents of the arid county of Turkana in
northwest Kenya have adequate access to water.
In the past, this included those in the villages that
make up Kakuma, such as Kabokorit, where 5,578
residents couldnt access any water at all because the
pipeline was damaged. Many more people in surrounding
villages had to put up with a patchy, inadequate service.
The only source of water was from the scoop holes we
made in the river, says Rose Akuwam, 20, a Kabokorit
resident who is married and has two children. We had
to dig the holes first and then wait for them to fill with
water. The first amount of water was very dirty and
we had to scoop that out. Then we had to wait for the
hole to fill up again before we could fill our jerry cans.
As a result, collecting water was time consuming,
to say the least. It could take us around an hour
to walk to the river. So fetching water could take me
around three hours, says Rose, describing how
various members of her household would go four
times a day: early morning, then around 10 am,
again in the afternoon and then finally in the evening.
Rose says she was exhausted by all the journeys back
and forth, and often in pain from carrying heavy loads. The
situation also led to conflict within the family. Youd get
Stories and photos collected by Jane Beesley, freelance humanitarian communications specialist, and edited by Emma Feeny (Oxfam).
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