The awful state of water

Today we were invited to an area where we are supporting a community with a preschool called Musilukadambo to hear their proposals for continuing suppot with a new school and and other needs in an area with 2552 rural villagers.
We met under some trees while representatives of the villages told us of their plight with lack of water. They have 15 pumps in all, including 2 installed by ourselves last year, and which are now supplying over half the population.
Only one of the others work. Eight of these were installed in the past year or so and have issues of poor design, inappropriate location, lack depth and capacity and most of all the possibility of real village level maintenance capability.
Here you see 11 year old Monica bringing water from an ancient well, within view of two broken pumps, The well would be fine if someone dug it out, built it up, put on a cover and installed a pipe, but that's a simple solution, which we, in the developed world often overlook as a solution for
Africa's many problems.
Tomorrow we will repair one of the pumps for her and give herself and over 100 of her villagers, clean, safe drinking water again for a cost of less that 30 pounds. (the other pump we can't touch). On our way we will restore water to 3 more villages.
In other villages people will start tomorrow digging bigger deeper wells, so as to avoid this problem next year