“Access to clean water is a human right and a necessity for good health.” - Peace Corps Volunteer Nicholas Karr

Happy World Water Day!

In this photo, Peace Corps Volunteer Caitrin Martin and children from her Senegalese village celebrate the construction of a well to provide clean drinking water to their community.

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An aquaculture extension Volunteer in Zambia shares a photo of her community’s fish pond

A women collecting water from Lake Malawi in the early hours of sun rise - Tanzania, 2011

Two Volunteers are helping communities across Senegal install 52 water pumps over the course of a year. In August, they began installing the “rope pumps,” which use a simple, appropriate technology that accelerates the process of pulling water out of wells. The pumps also relieve congestion around wells in local villages and give people access to more water.

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El Salvador - 2006

A Peace Corps Volunteer and local counterparts review a completed well project. Senegal - 2009

This is a picture of my counterpart, Amara Sani, outside of the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in early 2010. The village of Tsanwa has one foot pump that is 70m deep and two wells to meet their water needs. One of the wells has very dirty water only suitable for animal consumption. When the foot pump broke in December of 2009 the wells soon ran dry. Women had to walk half an hour to the next nearest well, pull the water and then carry it back. This picture is of Amara on her way to that well. My husband raised money through a PCPP for new pump parts and training for 2 of the men from Tsanwa on pump repair, and they got the pump running again.

Peace Corps Agriculture Volunteer Megan Jenness, Niger