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  I am: Untitled

  By Arthur Mwai A protected well without a donor inscription is like a new-born baby without an official name – much loved and highly-valued. Of course the locals have always had a name for the conventional Oluchina well that is positioned at a major crossroad of footpaths that interconnect the many homesteads that draw water from this well. As we waited for the Water Management Committee members to arrive for the assignment, I wondered…what if this conventional well could talk? If The Oluchina Well Could Talk I have always existed underground i

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  Let Me Tell You a Story about Water

  By Arthur Mwai, Project Assistant, Child Focused Development Project Kilifi Tell me a story about a place across a bridge where the river with many names snakes its way into the Indian Ocean. A place so hot and humid that it leaves you feeling parched with thirst to a point of delirium. Under the merciless sun and noon day heat, no creature dares make any unnecessary movement. Listless and panting. Goats and cows jostle under the shade of a handful branches of scrawny trees. About three kilometres off the Malindi-Lamu highway is Bandacho village. Windswept fields of sand

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