Wishing Well
 | The average amount of water consumption* per person per day in the U.S.: just under 151 gallons Data360 The average amount of water consumption per person per day in Somalia: just over 1.5 gallons U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization *Water consumption includes: drinking, cooking, hand-washing, bathing, cleaning, washing clothes... |
To get to water, most U.S. residents travel a couple of yards. "Many Somali women and girls must walk up to six miles..." ( Mercy USA ) and then they wait, sometimes, several hours, for a turn at the well, which may or may not have water. |
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| In Somalia, access to water would mean: women and girls don't risk their safety by walking long distances, girls have time to go to school, people can put down roots; with a stable population, there are schools, health clinics, .... |
| In Hiiraan, the well that EARDF is building does not represent a place where people make a wish; the well is the wish. In Seattle (or...) you can help make the well a reality by becoming a Well Wisher: Here's how: Click on "Donate" - below - to give $3 or more to our well-building work, and share your wish for Hiiraan's people. We will inscribe the finished well with donors' wishes ("signed" with first names and translated) for villagers to read while they wait for a turn to draw water. |  |
