I am fine and busy sensitizing the local population on the importance of protecting our local water. We have had a donation from a well wisher (a big metal board, already framed) to support the sensitization. We are now struggling to raise up $200 to buy paint, pay for the write -up of the slogans about water and to pin this board with the slogans around the stream in  Chua-Chua Botanical Gardens. I hope it will create awareness to passers by and those polluting the stream every day. If you wish to contribute, please make a donation through Moneybookers (to farmertantoh at africasyfa dot org).

Farmer Tantoh. 

By Jesse Huffman
The Christian Science Monitor, May 15, 2008 edition.

Most Americans can fill up a glass with tap water and safely drink it. But there are no faucets where Tantoh Nforba lives and works. He is from the Northwest Province of Cameroon, a rural region of Africa where the World Health Organization estimates that only 44 percent of the population has access to potable water.

The rest of the province’s 1.2 million inhabitants either drink from streams and lakes polluted with human and animal feces, contending with potential disease, or walk up to seven miles to collect clean drinking water from sporadically placed water pumps. The pumps are unreliable: Hard to maintain, they frequently fall into disrepair. And while water flows during the rainy season, many go dry later.

Today, Mr. Nforba has joined a global community stretching from the United States to Russia to Africa dedicated to making potable water more available.