There are about 800 families who live in the city of Luila as rural peasants. Water, drainage and sanitation systems are nonexistent. Water comes from springs. Going down to the spring is risky as the hill is steep. The water drops come out of a hose. More than 800 families use that spring everyday, including the school students who go to the spring the same way the city children go to the water fountain. Animals who share the same spring with people contaminate them. People drink muddy and cloudy water. Six out of 10 people suffer from diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, trachoma, parasites. One out of three kids is becoming blind. 75% of kids do not attend class because their duty in the family is to collect water, and going to the water spring to collect water takes time. When they come back from the spring, the class is over.

LUILA VILLAGE MINISTRIES (LVM) has decided to manage three springs around the village of Luila. The objective is to reduce water-related diseases by managing the spring waters and cleaning water. LVM did pay water experts to do an extensive need assessment.

Improving access to clean and safer water would (a) reduce illness and death in Luila village: a clean water supply reduces diarrhea-related death by up to 25%, while improved sanitation reduces it by 32%; blindness will be significantly reduced, and (b) reduce the workload for women and girls. This will increase school attendance for children and helped women engage in other income-generating activities.