The woman in the red thobe (traditional clothing for women in Somali) attended a session with her two daughters. She presents herself like the ringleader of the group surrounding the tea team, engaged them and the group in discussions. Her first proclamation is: “Chlorine is bad. You die if you drink water with chlorine!”

Throughout the demonstration she lost her reservations, and after MSF Tea Team (Ali Abdirahman Said, 25-year-old Health Education Supervisor and Ridwan Hussien Health Education Supervisor together with Jane Karanj, from Kenya and Finland, Nurse Activity Manager responsible for Health Promotion and Community Engagement) taste the water, she is the first to try it herself.

It convinced the rest of the group to take the offered chlorine sachets, the teams always handout at the end of each session.

MSF tea team assessment visit to Wacdi village, 15 km from Wardher town. Wacdi has a population of about 500 and after very good rains in the past one to two weeks, the surrounding bush population has grown to a population of 570. They moved close to benefit from the already filled and still filling up ‘berkits’ (rainwater collecting clay ponds).