Water is Basic
March 22, 2010
Headed to Juba
My feet are up and so am I . . . at about 30,000 feet over southern Italy. In spite of the British Airways flight crew strike we are still flying . . . I was just served a ginger ale by a captain! It seems all hands on deck works...
March 16, 2010
3/16 - Photo of the Week
An early morning line at WiB well # 8, in Hai Tarawa - a community on the outskirts of Yei, South Sudan. The waiting game puts a tremendous strain on Sudanese families. Women are pulled from their families to wait in day-long...
March 15, 2010
Election Violence
On Friday I received an email from a trusted source in Juba saying that an SPLM parlamentary cantidate had been murdered in his Juba home. This morning I have received word that the man's name was Zacharia Bol...
March 14, 2010
A Letter from Steve Roese
Dear friends of Sudan, Some months ago we received an appeal from Celestin Musekura, who was in southern Darfur at the time. It seems with most organizations getting ejected from Darfur by the government, the situation in the...
March 10, 2010
3/9 - Photo of the Week
A young girl clings to her jerry can as hundreds of refugees, mostly women & children, press in around her for a single piece of candy. For most of the refugees in Tarekeka, the candy was the first food they had...
March 3, 2010
3/2 - Photo of the Week
From refugee camps to crowded bomas, rural bore holes to city centers, there are two ubiquitous sounds at every well site I visited - the squeaking of the pump handle and the sounds of children laughing. During my short time at...
February 23, 2010
2/23 - Photo of the Week
In Aug. 2008, Water is Basic drilled this bore hole at an orphanage in S. Sudan. At the time, there had been a longstanding dispute between the nearby village and the orphanage over the community bore hole. Several months...