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THIS IS WHAT SAFE WATER LOOKS LIKE. It looks like joy, relief and hope.Swipe through moments from the commissioning and ...
08/20/2026

THIS IS WHAT SAFE WATER LOOKS LIKE.

It looks like joy, relief and hope.

Swipe through moments from the commissioning and handover of the Imburu Community WASH Project, a solar-powered, community-owned water system designed to serve the people of Imburu community for years to come.

From the needs assessment to drilling and construction, we carried you through every stage of the journey. Now, the system has been officially handed over to the community it was built to serve.

To the people of Imburu, our team, engineers, volunteers and community leaders, thank you for making this possible.

The commissioning may be over, but the impact is only beginning.

Water now flows in Imburu.

08/17/2026

04 | COMMISSIONING AND HANDOVER

We showed you the need. We carried you through every stage of the work. Now, we bring you the moment the promise became real and safe water began to flow in Imburu.

For years, families lived without safe water. Women walked long distances, children missed school, and the community faced repeated cases of cholera, typhoid and dysentery. As Esther Clement, Rita Shaforon and Mr. Ahmed shared, water was available in Imburu, but safe water was not.

After the site assessment, drilling and construction, the Imburu Community WASH Project has now been commissioned and officially handed over to the community.

The solar-powered system will provide safe, reliable water to more than 650 people. It includes elevated storage, filtration and accessible collection points designed to serve the community for years to come.

For women, it means less time searching for water. For children, it means fewer school days lost to illness. For families, it means finally having water they can trust.

Watching the water flow was deeply moving. It was more than the completion of a project. It was a burden being lifted and a new chapter beginning.

We thank the people of Imburu, our team, engineers, volunteers and community leaders who made this possible. Although the system has been handed over, our responsibility continues. Together with the community, we remain committed to protecting it for generations to come.

Water now flows in Imburu.

Safe water should never be a privilege. It is the foundation of health, education, dignity and opportunity.

đź“Ť Imburu Community, Numan LGA, Adamawa State
🎥 Original field footage: Moel Idu Foundation

Empowering Communities. Transforming Lives. Building Futures.

08/16/2026

IMBURU SPEAKS | 03

Across the world, millions of people still face an impossible choice: go without water or depend on water that may make them sick.

In this third and final episode of IMBURU SPEAKS, Mr. Ahmed, Community Leader of Imburu, describes the reality families endured before the intervention. Residents travelled long distances to the River Benue, while others waited in long queues at a small borehole that could not meet the community’s needs.

Even after testing confirmed that the available water was unsafe, families had no alternative.

“We had to consistently keep drinking from it.”

The consequences extended far beyond illness. Children missed school, families lost income while caring for the sick, and some children lost their lives.

Mr. Ahmed’s account joins the testimonies of Esther Clement and Rita Shaforon, completing the picture of what Imburu faced before the commissioning: unsafe water, preventable disease and a daily struggle that affected health, education, livelihoods and dignity.

This concludes IMBURU SPEAKS.

Tomorrow, we share what changed with the commissioning of the Imburu Community WASH Initiative.

đź“Ť Imburu, Numan LGA, Adamawa State
Original field footage: Moel Idu Foundation

Empowering Communities. Transforming Lives. Building Futures.

08/15/2026

IMBURU SPEAKS | 02

A water crisis is measured not only by the condition of its water sources, but by the illnesses communities are forced to endure.

Rita Shaforon, Officer in Charge of Primary Health Care in Imburu, speaks from the frontline of the community’s health crisis. She describes cases of typhoid, cholera and dysentery affecting both children and adults.

“They have both children and adults, and it’s high.”

Her account reveals an especially painful reality: children under five are among those affected by dysentery, while typhoid fever is commonly seen among adults.

She also shares something that says more than any statistic could: people sometimes came to the health facility itself in search of water. A centre established to care for the sick had become another stop in the community’s daily search for something as basic as safe water.

These are not isolated illnesses. They reflect what happens when an entire community must depend on unsafe water for drinking and daily use, placing continued pressure on families and the local health system.

Safe water is preventive healthcare. It protects children, reduces the risk of disease and gives communities a stronger foundation for healthy, dignified lives.

Rita’s testimony confirms what Esther shared in Episode 01. It reinforces why the Imburu Community WASH Initiative was urgently needed and why access to safe water must never be treated as a privilege.

đź“Ť Imburu, Numan LGA, Adamawa State
Original field footage: Moel Idu Foundation

Empowering Communities. Transforming Lives. Building Futures.

08/14/2026

IMBURU SPEAKS | 01

Esther Clement has lived in Imburu long enough to remember what the community endured before help arrived.

As Women Leader of Imburu Community, she has seen neighbours fall ill and families grieve loved ones who did not survive.

Sitting just outside her home, she tells us:

“A lot of women died as a result of cholera.”

Her words are painful to hear because she is not speaking about statistics. She is speaking about women she knew, families she watched suffer and lives that might have been saved if safe water had been available.

For years, women and girls walked long distances to the river, spent hours fetching water and returned home with water that could still put their families at risk. Unsafe water was not a choice. It was often the only water available.

No woman should lose her life because her community lacks safe drinking water. No family should have to choose between going without water and using water that could make them sick.

Esther’s account is one more community voice confirming why the Imburu Community WASH Initiative was necessary. We listen with deep sadness for the lives already lost and with an even stronger determination to help ensure this reality does not continue.

đź“Ť Imburu, Numan LGA, Adamawa State
Original field footage: Moel Idu Foundation

Empowering Communities. Transforming Lives. Building Futures.

08/13/2026

Today, we bring you the moment a promise started to take physical form.

03 | BUILDING THE SYSTEM

For too long, families in Imburu depended on unsafe water because they had no reliable alternative. No child should become sick because of the water they drink, and no family should have to depend on water they cannot trust. That belief is what brought us to Imburu, and it is what shaped every decision made on this site.

That is why we did more than drill a borehole. We built a complete water system designed to serve the community safely and reliably for years to come.

From responding to difficult ground conditions to strengthening the borehole with the right casing, every technical decision mattered. On site, our engineer walked the community through what was being built and why, answering questions directly so residents could trust not just the water, but the process behind it.

We do not build and disappear. We build to last, because a borehole that fails in a year has not solved anything.

This was never only about reaching water. Not for a moment of relief, but for a lasting solution, clean water, every day, for children, families and an entire community.

Next: 04 | COMMISSIONING AND HANDOVER

Location: Imburu, Numan LGA, Adamawa State
Original field footage: Moel Idu Foundation

Empowering Communities. Transforming Lives. Building Futures.

08/12/2026

Yesterday, we shared where this work began: understanding the problem.

Today, we move to the next stage.

02 | DRILLING FOR WATER

With the assessment complete, the team moved to site and drilling began.

For the people of Imburu, this was the moment the plan started to become real. After weeks of assessment and preparation, the work was finally taking shape on the ground.

The team installed a solar-powered borehole system so the community would not have to rely on diesel or an unstable power supply. Every part of the system had a purpose, from the elevated tank that helps maintain steady pressure to the solar wiring that powers the flow of water.

There is a lot behind a project like this that people do not always see. The technical decisions, the coordination, the movement of equipment, the long hours on site and the responsibility of making sure everything works properly before handover.

That is why we document every stage.

Because providing water is not just about drilling a borehole. It is about building a system people can use, trust and depend on every day.

Next: 03 | COMMISSIONING AND HANDOVER

Imburu, Numan LGA, Adamawa State
Original field footage: Moel Idu Foundation

Empowering Communities. Transforming Lives. Building Futures.

08/11/2026

A water project is not successful just because a borehole exists. It is successful when families can turn to it every day and trust the water they receive.

Every lasting solution starts with understanding the problem.

Before any drilling began in Imburu, our team spent time on the ground, assessing the existing water infrastructure, speaking with residents, and understanding what a safe and lasting response would require.

What we found was simple but important: having infrastructure does not always mean having safe water.

Part of our assessment included an old borehole that was no longer working. What remained was an exposed, collapsed structure that could no longer serve the families who once depended on it.

Water was available in Imburu. Safe water was not.

That is why we did not want to simply build and leave. We wanted to understand what had failed before, what the community truly needed, and how to build something they could depend on for the long term.

This site assessment is where the work truly began, and it shaped everything that followed.

01 | SITE ASSESSMENT
Next: 02 | DRILLING FOR WATER

Location: Imburu, Numan LGA, Adamawa State
Original field footage: Moel Idu Foundation

Empowering Communities. Transforming Lives. Building Futures.

08/09/2026

One river. Many uses. No safe separation.

In this footage documented by our team in Imburu, children swim and play in the Benue River. In the same water, an animal is slaughtered and cleaned, using water drawn directly from the river. Families also rely on this same river for everyday household needs.

There is no separation between where people bathe, where animals are slaughtered and washed, and where water is collected.

It is all the same water.

This is not simply a hygiene issue. It is what happens when a community has no safe alternative.

When there is no reliable borehole, treatment point or protected water source, the same river becomes the source for drinking, bathing, washing and livelihoods, despite the health risks.

And those risks are serious.

Water exposed to human and animal contamination can increase the risk of cholera, typhoid, dysentery and other waterborne diseases. Children are especially vulnerable, and when illness enters a household, the impact goes beyond health: school is missed, work is disrupted, and limited family income is redirected to treatment.

For families in Imburu, the issue was never simply having access to water.

It was having access to water they could trust.

This is the reality the Imburu Community WASH Initiative was built to change.

In our next post, we begin sharing the response, from site assessment to implementation, and what changed.

đź“Ť Imburu, Numan LGA, Adamawa State
🎥 Original field footage: Moel Idu Foundation

Empowering Communities. Transforming Lives. Building Futures.

08/08/2026

Imburu is a farming community on the banks of the Benue River, in Numan Local Government Area, Adamawa State.

Every rainy season, the river that sustains the community can also threaten it. Flooding affects farmlands and homes, and the water left behind is often unsafe to drink.

For families in Imburu, unsafe water is not an occasional challenge. It has become part of everyday life.

Contaminated water increases the risk of cholera, typhoid, dysentery and other waterborne diseases. Children are especially vulnerable. Illness can mean missed school days, while the time spent fetching, managing or treating water is time taken away from farming, income and caring for family.

And each rainy season, the cycle begins again.

This is not a story about a community that lacks resilience. It is the story of a community that has been living with a serious public health challenge for years, with limited access to the support and infrastructure needed to change it.

Before the intervention, before the infrastructure, this was daily life in Imburu.

This documentary begins with that reality — the reality that made the Imburu Community WASH Initiative necessary.

đź“Ť Imburu, Numan LGA, Adamawa State

This is where the story begins. In the coming posts, we will share the response, the change, and the voices of the people at the heart of it.

Empowering Communities. Transforming Lives. Building Futures.

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