Water Is Life

Try to imagine waking up each morning knowing that the first chore of the day is not breakfast or getting ready for school but rather to walk miles to collect water usually unsafe and polluted. Imagine that this is what you did every day as a child, as a mother, and all together as a community. For many in Ghana's rural areas, this is their daily routines. Others enjoy the comforts of running taps readily accessible, whereas many villages in Ghana struggle every day simply to find water that is safe to drink, cook, or bathe in.

And in these places, the phrase "water is life" is not just a slogan; it is a desperate truth. This is why we decided to do something. Through community-driven efforts, combined with the power of the Hive blockchain, what started out as a desire to help has turned into a life-changing movement. We're proud that today we have been able to build a total of 22 boreholes in different communities across Ghana, which are now so much more than holes in the ground, they are the lifeline of the villages.

In most of these remote areas, the Ghana Water Company has not been able to serve or supply them water. The Ghana Water Company supplies only urban areas, leaving the broader rural area population needing to rely on unsafe sources of water such as rivers, ponds, and seasonal rainwater. These sources are unreliable, unhealthy, and unsafe. They are liekly to expose people to waterborne diseases like cholera, dysentery, and typhoid which is even more dangerous for their health.

Without water, a village is without the building blocks of health, education, and well-being. We have been witness to a true paradigm shift, all because of the incredible support of a community and funding by the Hive network. These 22 boreholes now serve more than 15000 people clean, drinkable water every single day and impacting lives everyday. Women no longer travel for hours with buckets of water each day. Children are attending school instead of searching for water.

People are utilizing the boreholes as more than water points, they have become "spring of life" to them, that's what they call them. And why wouldn't they, because water is everything. Water is a greya source of pife and we all need it to survive. These boreholes are not merely saving lives; they are preserving what it means to truly live.

They are a testament to the fact that innovative technology with compassion and community can change the world - not just on a screen in front of you, but in a place where people walk and live. Water is life. And through Hive, a community of people and a great vision, we have brought life to places where it was far and neglected. But we have places to go and lives to touch. It is our great desire to see many more communities have access to clean drinking water and we hope we can achieve it.