Reflecting a Wider Problem
Although the villagers focus on their own daily survival, if they were to look outside Kongolote, they would learn that they share this water shortage with all of Mozambique. Like many African nations, Mozambique has an agonizing history. In the 1990s, following a sixteen-year civil war, it gained the reputation of being the poorest and most debt-ridden country in the world.
This former Portuguese colony has made a noble and inspiring comeback, but many remnants of the war still remain. Mozambique has one of the highest child mortality rates in the world; one out of every four children dies before the age of five, and the leading cause of these deaths is diarrhea from unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation. ...
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