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Look at how young the children are making the Long Walk.
This is Ms Joseline and she is with some children that make the Long Walk to gather water. Today I would like you to prepare some questions for Ms Joseline about water in her country and I hope she may help us with our learning about Water and the Global World.
Thanks Bronwyn for posting and sharing our photo, I am ready to answer your questions.
Mrs Joyce did this family do the long walk together like the little girl. It’s really DEVESTATING for people around the world have to do the long walk. I think most of the people in Victoria don’t know how lucky we are to have water.
Yes Jaymes, in the photo is Joseline ( me) with three little Sisters who had gone to fetch water after walking along distance to reach the water source. Fetching water is mainly done by women and children. You would never appreciate how lucky you are there in Victoria unless our water crisis here in Uganda is Share to you. Children do suffer walking long distance to fetch water. But distances vary from one community to another.
Wow I can’t wait to ask questions about how she had to get water and how you felt while you were doing the long walk.
Hi Jaymes, Getting water in villages like where my school is located, it is a real struggle. It feels bad to get tired every day walking long distance to fetch water yet using the head you cannot carry water which is enough. Myself when i was still a student, i used to miss classes because mum would send me to fetch water in the morning before going to school and i would find a long line of people fetching at the water spring which would make it impossible to reach home in time and go to school.
How old are the children that are collecting water every day for their family?
Why doesn’t the parents go collect the water?
Thanks Stephanie for the good questions. From three years of age, children start collecting water for their families walking long distances to get it. Fetching water is a task you will never miss to do in life as a child when you are born in Ugandan villages. Fetching water is mainly done by women and children especially girls. But because mothers are ever too busy with a lot of digging and house work, they find they have no time to go fetching thus they send their children to collect water for family use.
How do you feel about going for a long walk to get water?
How much water do you collect a day?
How often do the children go to school?
How can we help you and your country?
Hi Tahlia, therse are wonderful question you have asked. I feel bad about going for ling walk to collect water because it tiresome and cause children miss school. About how much water collected a day it all depends of the need and the children years. Young ones fetch little water while old ones above seven years fetch 60-80 litres per day. Children are supposed to go to school five days per week but they miss some days doing other work at home.
About how you can help, just create awareness about water crisis in Uganda and this would lead to some able people, schools, churches, big companies, foundations and organizations donate towards water project.
Welcome to our blog Mrs Joseline. I am Rennae in Australia there are so many people that waste water and they refuse to drink tap water. Mrs Joseline how much water do you collect a day? Did you collect water when you were their age? At your school how many people do you have. I have heard what you have done. You are so inspirational especially when you said you found them hopeless. Now you have given them hope. Can’t wait to see more about your school and students.
You are welcome Rename, and thanks for the questions. I get surprised when i here that people have water to waste. Here people suffer getting water and unfortunately what they get is very dirty. Myself i don’t collect water, my support staff do it for me 60 litres. When i was young collecting water was the task i did most like any other Ugandan child. I was not unique from my students today. Both students, teachers and support staff we around 105. Rename our connection is just starting, you are going to see more and about my school and students. Please accept our best regards.
How much water do you and your students collect a day? When it is time to go to school do you and your students enjoy it?
Bonnie, I have loved your question. Strait to your questions we collect around 5400 littres per day. children don’t enjoy going to collect water when it time to go school. Children enjoy going to school because there is less work at school compared with at home. Children have no time to play at home as they are given a lot work to do, collecting water and firewood, digging, cooking, selling commodities a long side roads and markets, and some work for money to buy food and books.
Hi my name is Logan Flynn, here are some questions I would like to ask. How much water does your students collect a day? What are your school hours? How many students go to the school? What grades do you teach? How old is the youngest and oldest student? I would like to be a buddy to one of the students in your school, I would like them not to be lonely. Thank you for reading and I wish the children the best.
Hello Logan, all your questions are very interesting thank you, my students correct around 5400 litres a day all together, our school hours are 8:30 am – 5:00pm. At my school i have more than 90 students but most of them don’t attend regularly because of problems at home. We have nursery section with baby class, middle class, and top class. In primary section we have five grades, from primary one to primary five. The youngest students are two years old. And the oldest student she is 16 years old and she is mother to a baby girl. I am happy that you would like to be buddy to one of the students in my school, please you are welcome. My students wish you the best in your studies and they wish to meet you one time.
How long do you walk just to get water?
Why don’t the children have any homes?
Why is the walk so long to get water?
Why can’t you guys dig another hole and put water in the hole so you guys won’t have to walk a long way?
Trinity Lee, all your questions are wonderful.Regarding your questions, we walk two kilometres to get water. But during drought season the water dry and we start walking more than two kilometers to get water. Some children also walk long distances to get to schools. Trinity, life here is different from yours because some people have no homes, they just survive by begging from those who have. Other people were forest dwellers and later they were evicted from the forest which left them landless and homeless with no shelter at all. in addition because of economic hardships parents abandon their children a long side roads that is why were have more street kids here in Uganda. other children have lost their parents and relatives because of HIV?AIDS. This explains why some children have no homes. We have to walk long distance to get water because we have no water at school and in our homes. It is not easy to dig a hole and get water as you think most especially when it is not rainy season.
How long is the walk to get the water from the school?
What is your school call?
Why don’t the children have a home to live in?
How do you get the water from the school
Why do you dig a another hole in the grow?
Thanks Stephanie for your good questions. Straight to your questions, the walk to get water from school is 2 kilometres and during sunny seasons we walk more than two kilometres to get water. The school is called Future Generation Nursery and Primary School. Our school motto is Together we make a difference. There are many reasons why children have no homes mainly because of poverty, they just survive by begging from those who have.
Other people were forest dwellers and later they were evicted from the forest which left them landless and homeless with no shelter at all. in addition because of economic hardships parents abandon their children a long side roads that is why were have more street kids here in Uganda. other children have lost their parents and relatives because of HIV?AIDS. This explains why some children have no homes. My students are mostly a result of such that is why i am proud to be helping them forget their diverse poor backgrounds by providing them education and basic needs.
We get water to school by collecting it using our containers on our heads We have no school vehicle to help in carrying water.
Oh my dear Stephanie, sorry i have not got your last question.
Hello my name is Jordan. I have some questions: How many children are there in your class? Do you like being a school teacher? How many people in your village? I hope you can answer my questions!
Hi Jordan, thanks for the questions and i am glad to inform you that one of my students is called Jordan and he is in baby class. Jordan, i am a teacher by profession but at my school i have no specific class i teach. I am the the founder and Director of the school with a big role to play. I have teachers who do all the teaching to students for me i just come in to monitor and supervise. Our village is big, there more than 3500 people but unfortunately most of them are illiterate , and because of poverty they don’t send their children to school.
Wow,
I can’t believe how dirty the water is in the background! It is In some sort of soigné Line! I would never do something or drink anything like that! But that is a different storey to them because they need any water to keep them having water before they find out where they can get water! Now I would love to talk to you about the water here in Australia! Believe it or not but the only thing we have to do when we get out of bed in the morning is walk a few steps and get to the bathroom and just turn on a tap and fresh water comes out of it! I am so sorry that it is very hard to get access to water in your country! We will try the hardest we can do to get you accessed to water with the cleanest you will ever see it would be possible to see straight through it! In the future this is defence toy going to happen! Now I would like to ask some questions, How much. Water would last you for a week? Where do you get your water from? What was the freshest water you have ever drank!? Are you the only one to go fetch water for your village? How big is your village! Where do you stall of of the water that you have fetched?
Ashton, i have loved your reactions and questions, you are so wonderful. How old are you and which grade ? you need to appreciate your being born in a good country like Australia where you have access to clean water and education without any difficulty. When water is not enough we economize it as much as possible to the extent that we fore-go like bathing at night and do washing of clothes, or we fore go washing clothes and do bathing twice a day. So now i cannot be specific about how much water would last for a week, it would be probably thousands of litres. We get water from the water spring. I get fresh water to drink when i go in shops to buy bottled water. Because our water is dirty even if we boil it we can’t be sure that it is clean for drinking. Some parents and Children die of water borne diseases and it is a pity. We only of ourselves not for the whole village. Each family collects it’s own water to use, and we as a school we are responsible for collecting water we need at school for bathing, washing clothes, cooking, drinking and washing plates and cups.Our village is very big with more than 3500 people. We have some plastic containers and big souce pans we use to keep water. We don’t have tanks to store our water
Hello my name is Reece and I was wondering how old are the kids at your school?
Reece, you have a good question thank you and here is the answer. The kids are from two years of age to 16 years. One girl has 16 years and she was raped and produced a baby a girl before i brought her at school and her baby is doing well and i hope she will join her mum when she gets old.
I feel extremely sorry for you and your village for the horrid drinking water. Do you enjoy being a teacher in your village? We would all love to meet you Ms Korugyendo. On behalf of LRPS (liddiard road primary school) I say hello. What is it like living in Uganda?
Hello Sam, thanks so much for the sympathy about our horrible drinking water. Yes I enjoy being a teacher in my village. very few females are educated in my village so i am lucky to be educate and above all being a professional teacher that is why i encourage girl child education very much. Living in Uganda is rather difficult compared to other countries, life is a struggle here.
Hello Ms Joseline. I have been wondering how much water do you get a day?
Hi Jake , you have a good question , we collect around 5400 litres whole the school. But this not mandatory because sometimes we get less t
In the villages around you have water pumps? if they do what type of water pump is it.
Rennea hanks for the good question, there are no water pumps we get water from springs.
Lastly, thank you all for the comments and questions , it has be lovely reading from you and answering your questions. I owe a great debt to Mrs Bronwyn Joyce for facilitating our connection and helping us become part of the global world. There is a lot to share with you about our school and how we do things the hard way and we are sure you will love it. May god bless you all.
Thanks Mrs Joseline for answering my question.
dear Joseline
Your testimony is so important to understand the real value of water. We tend to forget how difficult it is for some countries to get water for everyday life.
Thank you for your comments.
A teacher in France, who also teaches access to water.
Reblogged this on frenchgroup and commented:
access to water is really difficult in some countries.
Read the testimony of Joseline.