The Walk for Water

By Casey Neese

October 3, 2019

Last Updated: May 19, 2010



Video by Geoff Oliver Bugbee


Fatou Dione walks in oven-hot wind churning with dust to fetch water for her husband and four children. It’s the dry season in her village of Diarrere in Senegal, and both water and food are running low. The rains are expected to begin next month.

Austin Bailey is in Senegal this week, reporting on projects for Heifer's magazine, World Ark.