Burundi Water Well Project

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1 WATER WELL BUILT. AUGUST 2014.

Project Description

The well we built in Burundi was part of our Ramadhaan Water Wells Appeal 2014.  This was an appeal to raise £6000 to build 1 well in 3 different countries - Mozambique, Rwanda and Burundi.

The well was built in Muramvya District in the village regions of Gisase in the province of Bujumbura.These people are very very poor, one can cry from seeing the way people live in abject poverty with no basic needs of water and electricity.Water is so scarce to find even the dirty streams and rivers that you find in other communities are scarce here. People have to go miles and miles to get drinkable water. Women and children go through torture and abuse including gang rapes through long walks in forests and darkness just to fetch water. People die from all illnesses here because of lack of clean water. This region has a mix of christians and muslims. It has a population of about 13 thousand people.