Projects

L22-P139

Safe water flows again

Changed foot valve and seals

Team repairing handpump

The People of Liberia thank
Bob Massey Murphy Rotary Club (Murphy, NC)
In Honour of Nora Starks
Susan Krashinsky (Toronto, ON)
Natalie Zinetti (Surrey, BC)
For helping them repair their handpump in
Zuo Town Forgetting Village

Latitude: 6.30809 Longitude: -10.55998
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A message from the community

We, the good citizens of Zuo Town Forgetting Village extend our thanks to the repair team for fixing our pump.

Moses Willie, Town Chief

Some community details (provided by our in-country partners)

Zuo Town Forgetting Village is in Liberia's Lower Margibi County. Most residents rely on farming and fishing to feed their families. Their water well, which dates from 2010, stopped working more than a year ago after its hand-powered pump broke.

To meet their drinking, cooking, and sanitation needs, locals had no choice but to begin gathering water from nearby rivers and streams. This water is contaminated, and resulted in many people suffering from typhoid and other diarrheal diseases.

Thanks to our donors (in this case the Murphy Rotary Club in North Carolina), Lifewater's repair team visited Zuo Town recently and fixed the broken hand pump. It was an wonderful time for the people, especially the children in the town. They expressed relief and hope after their safe water source was restored.