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Vol. 12 – Quenching Thirst, Hand in Hand

The Senegal River flows from headwaters in the Guinea Highlands and at each of ten villages scattered around the river’s watershed in northern Senegal, work is underway for installing new Yamaha Clean Water Supply Systems. Our camera also returned to Ndiawdoune Nar Village, where a Yamaha Clean Water Supply System was installed back in 2012, and we were able to reunite with the smiling boy who had come to [...]

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Vol. 7 – Made in Mauritania: An Instructor-trainee Relationship without...

At a recently completed boatbuilding factory in a port city in northwestern Mauritania, production has started on a long-awaited new type of fishing boat that carries the hopes of people here for the development of a prosperous fishing industry. Instructing the factory’s employees in the construction methods and expertise needed to build these new boats is a veteran engineer from Japan with the spirit [...]

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Vol. 1 – Working to Change Water and Lives in Africa

This is an account about how a Yamaha water filtration system was set up in a small village in West Africa. When we visited the water drawing station that the villagers now manage and operate on their own, the sound of joyous laughter greets our ears.

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