An estimated 2.2 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water. Every day, 14-year-old Houlaye leaves her village in northern Niger to get water for her family. Like other girls her age, she walks for miles and cannot attend school. Yet beneath the ground of a region struck by global warming and abandoned by adult inhabitants in search of a subsistence livelihood elsewhere lies a huge aquifer. Through the efforts of the NGO Amman Imman: Water is Life, a well is under construction. United in its victory, the community will manage the new water supply network connecting the villages in the area.
