Watering the garden in the USA is very easy. We have access to hoses and pumps and irrigation systems. That is not the case in Gambia. Here is a video that shows how we water our gardens in my country. Our ground is very hard during the dry season as you can see in the first video. I have Tiktok and that is a great place to see more videos from me.
Here is Omar'sTiktok
How we water in my compound.
As you can see everything is by hand. Buckets of water, pail by pail. We carry them on foot back from the existing water source. This source is depleted daily so we have to rise early to get the water for the day. It is a 10 minute walk each way. We take what we can carry and use as much as possible to grow food.
It is important to note that in Gambia, water is NOT clean. It is used by animals and can be infected by e coli as well. It is very important that we take every precaution to make what we can get last the day and try to make it as safe as possible to drink.
We need a well that will give us safe drinking water.
The purpose of this blog is to help get funding for a well and we also are attempting to start a wishlist to help get items for the children for school.
When that is available I will have all links ready for readers to check on.
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