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Back in October last year, I visited some friends who are living in a remote part of Kenya, near the border with Tanzania. They are expanding and running a medical clinic and primary school to serve a number of disparate villages and settlements. The charity supporting these projects is called Redtribe.

One of the local men helping the projects took us to show us his village, called Mausa. After being introduced to his family, and shown his hut, we went to see where the village collected water each day.

It took us 10 minutes to drive the 2.5km to the "well" up the hill from the village. When we arrived, there was still a queue of women (who collect all the water) and livestock, waiting for their turn to scoop up what they could from the 1 square metre of clear water sitting at the edge of an open muddy pond. They had to use a small plastic beaker to fill their plastic jerry cans to avoid muddying the water further. 2,000 men, women and children rely on this water for drinking, cooking and cleaning, every day.

It took me a while to really comprehend what I was seeing. I asked my friends what could we realistically do to improve this "well". We devised a plan to embed a huge covered plastic tank into the pond, with piped outflows to a separate tank for human consumption and a further tank for animal consumption. All of this would cost just £3,000, with the local men providing the labour to build it.

Further pipes could bring the water down to the village, which would require a further £3,000.

I am running this half marathon to raise money for this well. I hope you can help the people of Mausa. It would truly transform their lives.

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