Savannah Region
Chani
Salamatu is a mother of seven who lives in Chani, a remote village in northern Ghana. Twice a day, Salamatu and her oldest daughter walk to fetch water from the only source: A dirty, stagnant pond called a dugout. They know this water is not safe to drink from devastating personal experience – most days, at least one of Salamatu’s children is sick with diarrhea. She lives in constant fear of losing them to this leading cause of death for young kids but there is nothing else to drink.
There was no solution in sight for Salamatu. Her village is too small to be reached by public infrastructure and there is no accessible groundwater to drill wells.
Saha has developed a solution for rural last-mile villages like Chani that puts women like Salamatu at its center. Saha gets the cleanest water to the hardest to reach people by employing local women as Water Service Operators who treat and sell drinking water.
Salamatu sees water differently now. Water used to keep her children out of school from sickness, now she uses her new water income from Saha to pay school fees. No one in her family has been sick with diarrhea since they started drinking the clean water Salamatu treats, sells to her peers, and buys for her family.