UNICEF helps bring clean water back to eastern Ukraine
Every day, hundreds of families from Nyzhnia Olkhova, Verkhnia Olkhova, Malynove, Plotyna, and Pshenychne in Luhansk were forced to decide whether to risk fetching drinking water from neighbouring villages or use dirty water from their wells. Decaying infrastructure, low pressure and water infested with worms made cooking, washing clothes and…, Without water or hope, , Illia, 13, from the small village of Nyzhnia Olkhova near the ‘contact line’, had to walk to a well three times a day to enable his mother to cook and do laundry. “I needed to go down two floors to get to the well,” says the schoolboy. “You go down, you fill them, you bring them back. I got used to it.” image UNICEF/2019/Filippov The failing water…, A hazardous undertaking, But improvements to the water supply are being made at last, thanks to the Government of Germany, UNICEF and Arche Nova. “Thanks to our donors, people started believing again,” says Penkov. “And they even started going back to their abandoned houses.” The project was a major challenge. Many villages had been partially mined during the conflict and…, Restoring hope for the future, The project to supply drinking water to the Stanytsia Luhanska district was the fourth joint project between Arche Nova and UNICEF. It was developed by the local administration of the five villages, and donors helped the people to buy and install a water tower, pipes and a pump. “This project is governed by representatives of the local…
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