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Olivia Arthur - AFRICA. Water Aid. 2009.
UGANDA. Esther Ariao washes beans for a meal
UGANDA. Amuria. Sermon at the newly constructed St John Catholic Church.
UGANDA. Amuria.
John Olabora, 14 milks his cow
UGANDA. Amuria. In the market place just after dawn.
UGANDA. Amuria. Jessica Aloket and her friends play games like Ludo before school in their new rooms
UGANDA. Hotel Arizona, Amuria, 2009. Owner Samuel Okello-Oloka
UGANDA. Amuria. Here a resident rests under their new drying rack after sweeping and washing up.
UGANDA. Hotel Arizona, Amuria, 2009
UGANDA. Sarah Namagembe, 42. A resident of the market Sarah cooks and sells food for shoppers and cinema-goers
UGANDA. Amuria. Benjamin Enngu and Kosei Ogarli play at being sci-fi characters.
Washing up after the breakfast rush in the central café, Amuria, 2009.
UGANDA. Stella Numa, 30, is a seamstress and runs one of the many businesses that have popped up along the main high street in Amuria.
UGANDA. Amuria. 2009
UGANDA. Amuria. Francis Okello washes her son Joseph outside the hospital.
UGANDA. Amuria. 2009 Esther Ariao washes beans for a meal. Baby Martha was born in late 2008. “It was a good birth. After resting for an hour I bathed Martha, my husband fetched the water and I had to get strength to bathe her. There is a bathroom in the hospital so I was able to wash myself. Becaus
UGANDA. Amuria. Emmanuel Opolot, seven, mans his mobile phone charging booth.
UGANDA. In Amuria WaterAid has helped the community to build this water tower.
UGANDA. Early morning in Amuria, 2009, with everyone heading to school or work.
UGANDA. Mid-morning tea in Amuria’s central café, 2009.
UGANDA. Evening drinks in the Little Rock Café, Amuria, 2009.
UGANDA. Peter Okello runs the Rock Ages Photo Studio.
TANZANIA. Michese.
Drinking clean water from a gourd.
TANZANIA.Dickson Yona on his way home from work in Michese, 2009. Dickson is 27 with a family of three boys and works in a job shoveling sand for construction.
TANZANIA. Sarah Machela at the new waterpoint in Chigongwe, 2009. A small town of around five hundred people, this community now has ten new taps.
TANZANIA. Michese/Chigongwe. 2009
TANZANIA. The wall of the café in Michese.
TANZANIA.“Before the water taps we were always late because we had to queue at the traditional wells. It affected us in our learning because sometimes we would miss one or two classes every day. We were dirty and so was our school, now we have a new latrine we clean it every day. We can go at any ti
TANZANIA.Happy Richards owns and runs this shop and café with her husband. “I share this space with my sister-in-law, she has the café and I have the shop. In the evening it’s a bar, in the morning a café. When football is on we show it here as well! Since the taps I have noticed the difference of s
TANZANIATraditions play a strong role in life in rural Tanzania. The proud father of a young boy explains; “These boys were circumcised one month ago, now they are healed we have the ceremony. When a boy is circumcised it’s a symbol that he’s a man within the family. Not to be married or anything,
TANZANIA. Michese/Chigongwe. 2009 “I run this café selling chai, chappati and mandazi (a type of doughnut). The water points save me time as I don’t have to queue, it’s helped because I can just make them in time for the customers to arrive; it’s helped to process the business more efficiently – was
TANZANIA. Michese/Chigongwe. 2009 The landscape around Chigongwe looks like a lunar desert strewn with boulders and huge old baobab trees
ARO2009009Z102-17 001“I lost my leg to a lion in 1956. I was grazing my sheep and cattle on the hill when a lion came and took one of my sheep. I tried to scare him away but it didn’t work. The next day he came back to take more animals. This time I fought him and tried to scare him away; I was usin
TANZANIA. Michese/Chigongwe. 2009Girls at the clinic in Chigongwe take medicine with clean water. Until 2009 the clinic had no running water and had to rely on water from the river. Nurse Christine Cresent-Njile said; “diarrhoea has decreased. Now we can go a whole day without seeing a person with d
TANZANIA. Michese/Chigongwe. 2009Mwajuma Yona with daughter Miriam and friend Jennifer Jackson at home in Chigongwe, 2009.
TANZANIA. Michese/Chigongwe. 2009Happy Richards owns and runs this shop and café with her husband. “I share this space with my sister-in-law, she has the café and I have the shop. In the evening it’s a bar, in the morning a café. When football is on we show it here as well! Since the taps I have not
TANZANIA. Michese/Chigongwe. 2009“We’re building a latrine. Before, in the rainy season, we used to wait until the rains stopped so we didn’t get wet. We put bags up as doors to try and create privacy, but this is a better way. I’m a leader in the village, so I decided to build bricks first for my o
TANZANIA. Michese/Chigongwe. 2009
TANZANIA. Michese/Chigongwe. 2009
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