Water is life

In the face of difficulties for the population of poor districts to stock-up with drinking-water, Espoir sans Frontières wanted in 1994, to begin in Malabo, the Capital, a well drilling programme.

The new discovery of oilfield in Equatorial Guinea favoured the setting-up of dilling companies in the country. Espoir sans Frontières took the opportunity to asked for appropriate material loans to drill in the places pointed up by a dowse in the different city's district.

From eleven wells, water gushed out
under the enthousiastic eye of hundreds children and adults who already waited with bowl in the hands!

The second project concerning water was to clean-up the stagnant waters, very numerous in the city, by emptying and transforming the wash-houses, showers and privy, the ingenious tanks dating from the spanish colonization were full of stagnant waters serving as support for malaria mosquitos' colonies.