Charity Atem
Drop in the Bucket has been working at the Alela Modern Primary School since 2009. We drilled at well in 2009 and a year later we went back and built toilets. It was at this school that we met a girl named Charity Atem. Charity was 16 years old at the time of this article. Charity […]
Kenyi Openi
Kenyi Openi is 14 years old. He has three brothers and one sister, and is in 7th grade at Jalimo Orphanage Primary School, in South Sudan. Kenyi says that the well Drop in the Bucket drilled has changed his life. Before the well, his family was collecting water from a muddy, unprotected hand dug well, which would also dry up at times. Pupils would often […]
Nambi Masitulah – Makonzi Boarding School
Nambi Masitulah is in class P6 at the Makonzi Boarding School which is in the Mubende district of western Uganda. When we first met Nambi, she was drinking from this water hole. Before the new well, all of the pupils at the school were getting their water from this same contaminated water source. They used this water for everything […]
Interview with Headmistress at Lire Secondary School
The name of the woman pictured here is Gune Sylvia Mikaya. She is the Headmistress of the Lire Secondary School in South Sudan. She graciously allowed us to interview her after the well was installed at the school. Question: What is your educational background? Answer: Because of the civil war in Sudan, I had my […]
Amoko Anthony Alibe’s Story
Amoko Anthony Alibe is the headmaster from the Stars of Hope Primary School in Malakia near Nimule in the Equatoria District of South Sudan. Anthony was born in 1978 in a village,not far from the school where he now teaches, called Matara. Unfortunately, In 1989 the LRA attacked Anthony’s village and he had to leave […]