You Asked Tombohuaun
This winter, we invited you to join the community of Tombohuaun on their journey to clean water. When you first met Nancy and her cousin Lucy, their only source of drinking water was a muddy puddle. It made them sick and caused their parents endless worry.
Nancy’s dad, Sellu, was keen to answer your questions about what life was like for the community. These are some of the most popular questions you asked him:
Does Nancy go to school?
The fantastic news is Nancy is indeed now going to school. Sellu is so impressed with her attitude he has very high hopes for her future:
"My hope for Nancy is that she will continue her education, and if she does I believe she will be someone very big in this community and she will bring development to Tombohuaun. I would like her to be in the medical world. Or, let her work for an NGO or a charity programme helping others."
What do you do for a living?
Sellu is a busy man – he supports his family primarily through farming and fishing, but carpentry is his passion:
"When my mother and father passed away, I decided to learn a skill because I was not going to school. I learned carpentry work. I get money from my work and it also brings joy to my heart when doing carpentry."
How will having clean water change your life?
"Most of the sicknesses we used to get from drinking dirty water will no longer be affecting us. We’ll no longer be having runny stomachs and having to go to the hospital."
Now parents in Tombohuaun have the chance to enjoy life together with the time to do what they love the most, and in the knowledge that they can bring up healthy, strong, children living to their full potential.
Thank you so much for helping to make this happen.
Keep talking
Sellu enjoyed answering your questions so much that we created a chatbot for him to give you a look at life as it changed in Tombohuaun through his eyes using Facebook Messenger
