A Turning Point for Ayang Village
Ryan's Well has worked in partnership with Divine Waters Uganda for several years to provide safe water for remote rural villages of Lira District. Our current project in Aromo Sub-County is underway with 10 wells recently completed. As we hear from each community, it helps us to better understand the daily chore and effort to collect water - even unsafe water.
Awor Dollish, a 20 year old resident of Ayang Village in Aromo Sub-County, shares his thoughts with us on the conditions of water access in his community before and after well construction.
We drink from an old spring well called Micaleci Spring. Micaleci Spring flows very slowly and such that it takes us a long time, at least one hour, to wait for a 20 litre container to be filled. If you store the water in your container, the colour changes to brown by the following morning such that you can't drink it or use it. There is only one alternative during the dry season where we spend 2 to 3 hours waiting for your turn to fetch water. Whether you want to or not, you must use it the following day. So even if the water is not worthy to be consumed, we dare to drink it because it's the only source this community could afford. In this water you can clearly see small red worms and leeches in the water that we all drink from this former source. And because of this, almost everyone in th
is community suffers from stomach sicknesses like typhoid, diarrhea and skin diseases like scabies and trachoma.
Today is a turning point in this village. We are extremely delighted and thank Divine Waters Uganda and Ryan's Well for drilling a new well for this community. We shall sustain this well so that even our grandchildren should benefit from it. God has demonstrated his love today as we see a new water facility in Ayang Village.
-Awor Dollish
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