Water

Nigeria |2023| CBPF Nigeria, Adamawa state. Daware town has long been a refuge for people fleeing Boko Haram in neighboring Borno state. After over a decade, about 3,300 displaced people live in the informal camp here. The villages and towns in this area are easily flooded, causing recurrent displacement and spreading disease from contaminated water. […]

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Burkina Faso | 2023 | CBPF Burkina Faso, Kaya. Pamoussa Sawadogo is the head nurse at a clinic in Kaya, capital of the Centre-Nord region. The clinic has long suffered from water shortages due to the violence and conflict affecting basic services throughout the region. Kaya, a city about 100 km northeast of Burkina Faso’s […]

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Ukraine | 2023 | CERF
“In Dnipro, I used to spend UAH 15 (roughly half a dollar) per day for a large bottle of water. You may not think it’s that much money. But if you take into account all the monthly expenses, it really is,” says Yulia.

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Burkina Faso | 2022 | CBPF
“Before Help’s support, life was an ordeal for my children and I ­­– problems with food, water, and money. For example, to get drinking water, we had to go to the fountain 2 km away and pay 25 CFA francs per 20-litre can,” says Mrs. Dio.

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South Sudan | 2021 | CBPF
“I used to have to walk for hours to get water for my family,” says Nyakwoth. “For me, the journey would take even longer because sometimes I would have to carry the baby. We would have to wait for hours, [for our turn]. Sometimes, we would end up fighting over the scarce water,” she adds.

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