August 18, 2005
Women and Water
THE FACE OF PHILANTHROPY
By Caroline Preston
By the time their husbands arise each day, many African women have been awake for hours collecting the water their families will use to drink, wash, and cook. Women can easily spend six hours a day walking to wells, waiting in line, and making the trek back while carrying metal buckets on their heads filled with as much water as they can lift.
The limited water supply has not only had a crippling
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