The first day of the trip included a visit to the village of Rukaramu, not far from the international airport of Bujumbura.
During the conversation with the village chief (centre of the picture) and during a tour of the village it turned out that the groundwater pumping system installed by a foreign company a few years ago no longer works. Nobody feels responsible for the repair. Since then the population has been drinking the dirty brown water from the irrigation ditch. When asked what he thinks is most important for the population, he said that clean water is the most important thing.
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