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    • Volunteer Discusses with Village Chief

    • Volunteer Discusses with Village Chief

    • Water and Sanitation; Elders

    • This Volunteer works in Tangassane as a water resource project manager. He is shown seated with village chief, Mohammane Adaa, in his mud-walled home. They drink the traditional tea as they discuss the plans for construction of three new wells.
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    • Building Wells

    • Building Wells

    • Water and Sanitation; Transportation

    • This Volunteer works to improve water management in a Tamashek camp on an island in the Niger River Delta. She is shown helping villagers unload supplies, which she will use to construct three wells in her village. They will transport these...
    • Agency Photos
    • Volunteer Discusses Irrigation Systems

    • Volunteer Discusses Irrigation Systems

    • Construction; Water and sanitation

    • A Volunteer involved in gardening and agro-forestry, joins a former Volunteer in Mali in a trip to her island village of Issafaye. In the photo, they advise the Bozo Village Association on ways to construct stronger canal walls and engineer...
    • Agency Photos
    • Volunteer Examines Pump

    • Volunteer Examines Pump

    • Water and sanitation; construction

    • A Volunteer involved in gardening and agro-forestry, joins a former Volunteer in Mali in a trip to her island village of Issafaye. In the photo, they examine an old wheel-barrow pump, which they will repair to use as a hand pump to irrigate rice...
    • Agency Photos
    • Volunteer Examines Pump

    • Volunteer Examines Pump

    • Water and sanitation; construction

    • A Volunteer involved in gardening and agro-forestry, joins a former Volunteer in Mali in a trip to her island village of Issafaye. In the photo, they examine an old wheel-barrow pump, which they will repair to use as a hand pump to irrigate rice...
    • Agency Photos
    • Volunteer Offers Advice on Irrigation

    • Volunteer Offers Advice on Irrigation

    • Construction; Water and sanitation

    • A Volunteer involved in gardening and agro-forestry, joins a Volunteer in Mali in a trip to her island village of Issafaye. In this photo, they advise the Bozo Village Association on ways to construct stronger canal walls and engineer irrigation...
    • Agency Photos
    • Volunteers Examine Pump

    • Volunteers Examine Pump

    • construction; water and sanitation

    • A Volunteer involved in gardening and agro-forestry, joins a former Volunteer in Mali in a trip to her island village of Issafaye. In this photo, they examine an old wheel-barrow pump, which they will repair to use as a hand pump to irrigate rice...
    • Agency Photos
    • Volunteer Works to Construct Wells

    • Volunteer Works to Construct Wells

    • water and sanitation; construction

    • This Volunteer works with a team, which includes a gardener and a forester, to construct village wells in Baka-Were. In this photo, he and the village gardener examine a garden well being constructed with “dutch bricks”, a design developed by a...
    • Agency Photos
    • Digging Wells

    • Digging Wells

    • Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation

    • Digging for water, slowly, bucket by bucket, Kongoussi masons hoist dirt from the well they are digging for their village. Once the dirt is removed, cementing will begin. One of the major concerns of well diggers is cave-ins. If the cementing is...
    • Agency Photos
    • Entering the Well

    • Entering the Well

    • Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation

    • Rope pulled taut, this Volunteer prepares to be lowered into the well. With the help of Pinsa villagers, the well construction is nearing an end. When completed, the well will be used mainly to supply drinking water. Livestock watering and small...
    • Agency Photos
    • Dam Repair

    • Dam Repair

    • Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation

    • Action Peace Corps Volunteers work with villagers to repair the Dabesma dam in Upper Volta. The trench will be filled with cement to strengthen the dam and the workers walk along the top tamping down the soil with metal instruments designed by a...
    • Agency Photos
    • Well Construction

    • Well Construction

    • Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation

    • This Volunteer aids drought-stricken Upper Volta in its urgent quest for more water. Since 1972, he has helped Dargo and surrounding villages construct 23 hand-dug cement-lined wells. 1974
    • Agency Photos
    • Wells in Upper Volta

    • Wells in Upper Volta

    • Knight Foundation; Water and sanitation

    • With a mixture of pride and awe, Hamdoulaye villagers gaze into the cavernous depths of their newly completed well. Few villages in the Hamdoulaye area have ever had a well, not even a dirt one, because the sources of water are too deep to reach...
    • Agency Photos

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