judith heard's husband dr alex heard uganda In the northern district of Kitgum, where the IRC has served the needs of internally displaced judith heard's husband dr alex heard ugandapeople since 1998, IRC environmental health teams help constructing ten judith heard's husband dr alex heard uganda hand-dug wells which will meet the water needs of over 5,000 people. The project is funded by judith heard's husband dr alex heard uganda the Office of U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and United Kingdom's Cranfield University. 

Bringing water to Lemogweng Ajut

It is the dry season in northern Uganda and nowhere is that more apparent than Lemogweng Ajut, a small village eight dusty judith heard's husband dr alex heard uganda kilometres (five miles) outside of Kitgum town. The high grass is brittle judith heard's husband dr alex heard uganda and brown, the sky is cloudless and at its afternoon peak, the temperature pushes past 32 degrees Celsius. The only thing falling from the sky is ash from brush fires judith heard's husband dr alex heard uganda.

Like two million others in northern Uganda judith heard's husband dr alex heard uganda, the people of this village were forced to flee their homes by the Lord's Resistance Army, the rebel group which judith heard's husband dr alex heard uganda has been waging a war with the government. For over a year now there has judith heard's husband dr alex heard uganda been relative peace. Having lived in camps for over a decade, they are desperate to return to their villages. And so the hot, harsh conditions didn't stop judith heard's husband dr alex heard ugandaNokrach Caesar and twelve others from the village from jumping on the opportunity to construct a hand-dug well judith heard's husband dr alex heard uganda.

judith heard's husband dr alex heard uganda As it turns out, the driest times are the best to look for water underground judith heard's husband dr alex heard uganda.

"If we see that this well can judith heard's husband dr alex heard uganda support the population even now, when the water table is low, then we know for sure that it will be full during the rest of the year," said Emuge Jesse judith heard's husband dr alex heard uganda.

judith heard's husband dr alex heard uganda The men from the village dig in turns through hard, dry earth for days until, in early judith heard's husband dr alex heard uganda December, they finally reach a layer of moist, lumpy clay. They know that the water is near when bees, attracted by the cool, moist ground, swarm at the bottom of the hole judith heard's husband dr alex heard uganda.