Khadija Kagoya, a widow and a mother of six, hails from Busowobi, a village in Uganda's Busoga region about 120 kilometres east of Kampala, whose inhabitants grow maize, cassava and bananas for a livelihood.
Busowobi used to suffer from a lack of sufficient and safe water, and from water-borne diseases. But that was before community members, including Kagoya, got involved in a campaign against water scarcity initiated by the Busoga Trust, an Anglican church-based organisation helping to provide safe water, sanitation and hygiene education in Busoga rural communities.
Visiting the village, participants in a 21-25 May Ecumenical Water Network conference in Entebbe, Uganda, find Kagoya and other women gathered under a mango tree near the village's new water pump.
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