by Lissie | Oct 14, 2012 | Blog |
The land of the upright people. Burkina Faso. Like so many of its West African neighbors, this land-locked country must constantly negotiate the needs of the agricultural activity which occupies nearly 80 percent of the population with a climate which provides...
by Lissie | Oct 4, 2012 | Blog |
Known as much for the warmth of its people as for its amazing landscapes, Malawi is a stunningly beautiful country. Though historically underdeveloped, reforms in recent years have allowed for real economic growth, as well as a slow improvement in environmental and...
by Lissie | Sep 25, 2012 | Blog |
Not far from the African Well Fund’s first Nigerien project in Tsamia Jigo, Kabefo village fought a similar battle to secure enough increasingly scarce water to survive. Like in much of the rest of Niger, rainfall in Kabefo is both inconsistent and inadequate,...
by Lissie | Sep 20, 2012 | Blog |
By far the largest nation in West Africa, Niger was 5,000 years ago covered in fertile grasslands, home to pastoralists who passed on a culture stretching back to at least 10,000 BCE. Their rock paintings show the complex lifestyle of so many years previous, with...
by Lissie | Sep 12, 2012 | Blog |
Sixteen-year-old Kyasimire Evaleen, a student at Ruhama Secondary School, was excited to be among the female students benefiting from an improved latrine and water tank near the school’s dormitories. In her own words: “After classes we would climb the...
