“Once you begin providing water,” Ya’ari says, “the children become clean because they aren’t filling jerry cans with muddy water and because they can wash. They also stay healthy, because a large number of the children had been getting sick from drinking unclean water.” Another change is how they spend their days. “The children, especially the girls, had been walking two to three hours a day fetching water,” she says. “They would come back exhausted and filthy. Now, with water being pumped, they can go to school. They have no obligation to be fetching water at all. For them, water is for
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