Fourteen year old Husna lives in the Singida District of Tanzania.

WaterAid helped her community to build the new well pictured above, which is very close to her school.  We also helped set up a hygiene club in the school which teaches the children the importance of washing their hands, using clean water containers and other basic hygiene that helps safeguard their health. 

The result is better health and improved school attendance, as Husna told us:

“I had to use a traditional well before we had the pump. At that time we had to go every day to the traditional well to fetch water. It took half an hour to get there and the water was very dirty. During the dry season there was very little water so we had to wait a long time to collect enough. I fetched the water after school every day. Now it takes a lot less time to collect water and we know the water is safe.

"Now there is less illness in the school. At that time I got ill and sometimes had to miss school and I felt bad because my fellow friends were continuing their studies but I had to stay at home. During the rainy season most of the children got ill, I think it was because there were a lot of micro-organisms in the water.”

Photo: WaterAid / Marco Betti