When we arrived in Wairasa the contractors had completed the drilling of both wells and were preparing to pour the concrete and install the pipes.   Since these rural areas have no hotels or

 

You can read National Geographic or watch the Africa Channel on television, but nothing can prepare you for the first time you go into a small village in rural Uganda.

 

First of all there's the

This rural village in Eastern Uganda has a population of approximately 1200 people.   The water they consumed was drawn from a dangerous and stagnant hole – which was a breeding ground for Malaria-