One of the 25 "fetching stations" Point Hope now has in the Buduburam village area. Women and men are employed as water vendors, collecting a commission on every drop of water they sell, which helps to provide for their families.
About Living Water
When Point Hope's founder, Delilah, entered Buduburam Liberian Refugee Settlement in Ghana, West Africa, for the first time in 2004, what shocked her the most was the number of children dying daily from water-born diseases due to the lack of fresh, safe drinking water. She met with mothers from the refugee community of over 60,000 people and made a promise to these women that she would deliver fresh water to help them save their babies. They were shocked when she kept coming back to work on keeping her promise, as they were used to people coming, making promises, taking pictures and then never returning--but they didn't know the tenacity Delilah has. (Her dad always told her "can't means you don't really want to" and A LOT of people had told her it was impossible to get fresh water to the "Camp"--she didn't mind them!)
By 2008, after all efforts to drill wells proved futile because the village was too close to the sea and salty water kept leaking into the wells, Point Hope, through Delilah's leadership and funding, was able to connect pipes to the Ghana Water Company's main supply and brought fresh, clean, safe drinking water to the community. (In the process of bringing water to the refugees, water became available to every community along the pipeline, thus impacting tens of thousands of lives!)