Dear Sir/Madame, 

It has been nothing short of a miracle that you have come to us and brought safe water for everyone.  The people here and from close by are all extremely grateful for your great humanitarian act of kindness.  Please accept our thanks and deepest appreciation. There is not a person who has escaped sickness off and on thoroughout their lives. We didn't have a good understanding that our water was one of the main reasons for this affliction.  With the teaching from the workshop and the safe water well, we can look forward to a healthier future for everyone.  No longer will we watch our babies suffer and some even perish when they are wee.. Words can not express how much this means to our families.

Thank you and may our good Lord pour out His blessings on all of you.

Kindly

Saiffa Cole

Chief

Located at the Monrovia-Bomi High way on the outskirt of the County of Montserrado, lies the Town of Kurkia. ''We were born here'' is the meaning of the Town's name, in the local Kpelleh dialect.  It founded during the late 1920. By the narration of some locals who have live in the Town since its existence: cola was consumed by many locals at the birth of  Kurkai Town for its enduring ability to sustain hunger since most of the locals depended on farming as a superior means of survival. Kurkai which is the tribal name of cola is still being consume on a large scale today for the same purpose it was consumed years ago. ''Me and my farming friends eat cola all day and do not feel hungry'' Francis, a resident of the Town explained.

When asked how do people in the Town get their drinking water, almost all the locals mentioned hand dug well and river respectively. Those water sources are not safe for drinking and have caused the illness of many dwellers especially women and children. More besides, the unavailability of a mass hygiene and sanitation education couple with the very high poverty and illiteracy rate fuel locals inability to properly equip themselves to follow up on their health and hygiene and thus expose the Town to a variety of diseases including diarrhea, dysentery and other water borne diseases. As a result, those diseases led them to high medical costs, an increased rate of infant mortality in the same way as it affect pregnant women and men ability to work due to poor health.

Moreover, a very huge percentages of the Town  are currently using  traditional pit latrine at household level. Only few households used to wash their hands after visiting their toilets. Recently, through Lifewater intervention, a small number of women and girls  tarted using toilets during day time which was not practiced due to the culture of the community.

As it is often said here in Liberia ''There is light at the end of the thunder'' so they felt that seeing the Lifewater drilling team arrive was like that light. This is the first pump in the Town which is now providing access to safe drinking water for all residents. There are some people who are from the nearby town also coming to the Town now to fetch safe drinking water. Because of the hand pump, Kurkai is soon becoming a commercial center there by opening the way for local women and single mothers to venture in business and neglecting the old life-style of farming and charcoal production. 

 This well was drilled as part of a cooperative NGO initiative to provide safe drinking water to all Liberian's. Thanks to ''The Last Well Inc.'' for their coordination and support!