By Dr. Archana Shrestha Joshi (AMDA Japan)

AMDA has recently helped build a new well in a remote village in the state of Bihar, India.
At Shreepur, a village located on the outskirts of Bodhgaya, the poverty rate is very high since most of the residents belong to the lowest stratum of the Indian caste system (Dalit).
An old well, which previously supplied water to the village, had been operated with an electric pump. However, because power outages frequently occur in the village, a total of 650 residents had been forced to endure the inconvenience of not being able to use it from time to time.