Today we visited Mkwambe, on the outskirts of Dar Es Salaam where WaterAid has built a solar powered water pump and installed distribution points around the village.
The village used to rely on traditional, hand-dug wells. This one was concrete lined in 1976 to make it safer and more secure but it dried up in the dry season and became contaminated. A new house nearby has recently built a latrine emptying pit near the well, increasing the risk of contamination.
The new well has been built by WaterAid and is powered by solar panels as there is no mains electricity in the village. It feeds water tanks and distribution points around the village including here at Mkwambe primary and secondary schools.
The local water commitee member Suleiman Ali was also keen to show us the old water sources which people in the village relied on before the new WaterAid borehole was built. Here we met Mwajuma Saidi and her sister Ashul Saidi who showed us the unsafe well they used to use. Film-maker Ferederic Courbet and photographer Jake Lyell film sisters Mwajuma and Ashul Saidi as they collect water from the old well.
The Saidi family now have a clean and secure water source a short walk from their home.
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