Lady with five cups

The Losimingoiri village in the Monduli district of Arusha faces a severe water crisis. The women and young girls of the village walk long distances to collect water from the nearby Nanja dam. Anna Yamat, a 43-year-old woman walks for 6 hours to collect four buckets of water that sustains her family and livestock. If she falls short on water, she sometimes has to borrow a bucket full of water from her neighbours or buy it from the market. She consumes only 5 cups of water every day. If she was given 5 buckets of water to use within a day, she will still not consume all of it. “It is important to preserve what you have to use for another day”, she shared with us.

The Wise Wall Project is an initiative of Project FUEL that aims to document, design and strengthen the wisdom of rural communities and marginalised villages using art and community outreach programmes. The arts lead the way to raise support for the challenges these villages face today like migration, quality education and access to basic amenities like water and roads.

In the third edition of the Wise Wall Project, we are collaborating with the culturally rich and one of the oldest communitys in the world, the Maasai community, in Arusha, Tanzania, in partnership with Vikram Solar Ltd., Vijana Inspiring Foundation, Lions Club of Dar es Salaam and Arusha City, and Google Arts and Culture. Along with building an on-ground community centre and museum for the community, we are bringing an exclusive insight into the life, lifestyle and learnings from this inspiring community.