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Women often have to walk long distances to collect water for their families and often arrive to a crowded source and must wait in line for the chance to fill their jerry cans.
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Walking for Water

Noomali gathers up the plastic jerry cans (a repurposed bright yellow plastic container that was originally used for cooking oil. These are then rinsed and sold as vessels for water storage) and a length of rope after she is finished milking the livestock and sharing a breakfast of Kenyan mixed tea with her family. She, her sister-in-law and her daughters (while on break from school) leave to fetch the day’s water.