Dorothy is the archetypal embodiment of anyone and everyone that EWB is motivated by and works for. She is no one person; at times she is the single mother raising three children and cultivating a crop of maize. At other times she has a business selling fruit in the local markets. A quintessential, passionate, tireless women, she is our raison d’etre. It is for Dorothy that all of us focus less on what we hope to do, and in turn we are motivated by what we wish to achieve. In her lies the distinction between digging a well, and providing safe, clean, secure drinking water for a village.

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