WOMEN AND WATER IN MALAWI. An Ill-suited Couple

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Loda Gundula, 14 y.o., as she finishes studying outside her home, in Kakunga Village. Loda is in 6th grade in school. She combines her duties at home with her studies. Before going to school in the morning she fetches water and cleans the house. And when she goes back home in the afternoon, before studying, she has to help washing the clothes and the dishes and looking after her younger sisters and brothers. Mezendani attends to a school where there's water. She does not know any girl who goes to a school where there's no water.
Due to the lack of water and sanitary facilities, many girls who reache their puberty drop out of school, because they feel shy for having to go to the bush to relief theirselves and to manage when they have menstruation.