Wells Bring Hope: Bringing Safe Water and Sanitation to Rural Niger

The stories Barbara Goldberg heard on her first trip to Niger were often about life and death, pain and suffering—babies dying from contaminated water, girls who risked being attacked and raped when they walked miles to get water, women whose hands were in constant pain, burned by the ropes they used to pull water from a traditional well.

Thankfully, stories with happy endings, like the one that follows, revealed how drilling a well saves lives and transforms them for generations to come. Learning about the powerful impact that Wells Bring Hope, the organization she founded, had in the rural villages she visited made it clear to Goldberg that this is work she would do for the rest of her life.

Originally published on globalheroes.com. Find more info at wellsbringhope.org.