{"id":13870,"date":"2021-12-02T15:37:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T15:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/?p=13870"},"modified":"2021-12-02T15:37:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T15:37:37","slug":"bringing-water-and-inspiration-to-malawis-women-selfhelpafrica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/bringing-water-and-inspiration-to-malawis-women-selfhelpafrica\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Water and Inspiration to Malawi’s Women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the drilling rig coughs into life and starts its work, sinking pipes into the ground, the excitement among the onlookers is palpable. <\/p>
Hours later, when the first gush of water emerges from the new well, the cheers of the watching community \u2013 most of them women – almost drown out the steady thrum of the diesel powered rig.<\/p>
Such a sound never fail to delight Uchizi Chirambo, a woman in the man\u2019s world of heavy engineering. As one of the coordinators of a United Purpose and Self Help Africa project that\u2019s drilling wells to bring clean water to communities in Malawi, Uchizi is a familiar face on drilling work being undertaken as part of the Dowa Integrated Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (DI WASH) project.<\/p>
As a woman, she recognises too the transformational impact of bringing safe, clean water to the lives of women and girls in rural Malawi.<\/p>
\u201cIt delights me to see rural women, children and communities in hard-to-reach areas accessing clean and safe water,\u201d <\/em>says Uchizi, as her team complete their latest drilling assignment, at Kalumba village in Dowa District.<\/p>