Wells and Boreholes Spring Renewed Hope
“I cannot express the joy I had on that day I saw water from the well,” says Anastasia. “My dream has come true.”
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AMREF/Thierry Geenen
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In one quick movement, Anastasia Wanza, 55, swoops down, plucks a tomato from its stem, and calls out to one of her children pumping water from a shallow well nearby to come help her tend the garden. Anastasia's little garden stands out like a small oasis, a sharp contrast to the dry brown environment that surrounds it. “It wasn’t this way,” she says. “Before the well, we could not grow vegetables here. But now we can. Thanks to Global Impact member charity African Medical & Research Foundation (AMREF) we have a well.”
Before the well, Anastasia walked three hours with a 20-liter jerry can on her back—an all too common occurrence in the dry regions of Kenya, which has suffered greatly from poor rains over the past four years.
Since 2003—the same year Anastasia along with 25 other community members built AMREF well number 150—AMREF has been responding to the drought crisis by bringing hope and relief to thousands of people. To date, AMREF has built 1,200 wells and over 45 boreholes in the drought-stricken areas.
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