Before the well was drilled, diseases caused by drinking impure well water and skin irrigations from insufficient bathing plagued the villagers. After a mother gave birth, there often wasn't even enough water to bathe the baby. Khardiata sampling some of the well water. 16632-19A Senegal, Africa. Village children playing with water from borehole.
Diarrhea is almost non-existent now.
World Vision Senegal will expand its well drilling work to East Kaolack, a region in central Senegal, beginning in December, 1995. Since 1986, World Vision has been serving in northern Senegal in the regions of Thies and Louga where the organization has drilled more than 520 borehole wells, providing fresh water to more than 170,000 people. 16642-17 Kompong Thom Province, Cambodia. Pheung Sokhin takes notes in her grade 2 class. These children must walk barefoot at least a few kilometers from their home to school.