Over the weekend I visited a friend in a hospital around Somolu at around 8pm and just by the entrance of the house next to the hospital, I noticed a group of people surrounding a section of the fence followed by a short queue. Upon moving a little closer I realised they were all queuing up to fetch water from the tap provided by the owner of the house.
On the faces of those who had managed to fetch water in all of that chaos, I saw genuine happiness and satisfaction knowing that they were going to use clean water for their domestic use that evening, and probably for the following day. I thought to myself that the home owner did that for them. He probably didn’t think it a huge deal but he’s impacting a lot of lives. I learnt from some of them that they walked almost a km with big jugs just to fetch clean water.

Moral of the story –
It’s always very convenient to blame the government for everything that is wrong with this country (although they are to blame) and not do anything about it, but I believe if everyone did something nice for the next person or community no matter how small or insignificant they think it is, life would be considerably better. It’s high time we start taking care of ourselves!