{"id":2023,"date":"2016-02-11T14:01:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T14:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roundaboutwatersolutions.org.za\/2016\/02\/11\/beautful-scenery-but-no-reliable-water\/"},"modified":"2016-02-11T14:01:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T14:01:42","slug":"beautful-scenery-but-no-reliable-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playpumps.co.za\/index.php\/2016\/02\/11\/beautful-scenery-but-no-reliable-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautful scenery but no reliable water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Near Clarens in the Free State, set among <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1466\" src=\"https:\/\/playpumps.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/FS094-MOJALEFA-PS-46-300x208-1.jpg\" alt=\"FS094 - MOJALEFA PS 46\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" data-id=\"1466\" \/>rolling\u00a0 hills, is a small farm school, which up until now had no reliable water.\u00a0 Sometimes the children used to leave school early because they were thirsty.\u00a0 Though schools in South Africa normally give the children a meal, without reliable clean water they were unable to cook meals for them, resulting in the children going hungry.\u00a0 There was a water delivery, but that could take up to two weeks to come, and the water from the last water delivery by that time had run out.\u00a0 Thanks to generous donors we were recently able to installed a PlayPump there.<\/p>\n<p>We went back to the school last week and the children were still<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1467 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/playpumps.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/FS094-MOJALEFA-PS-50-300x225-1.jpg\" alt=\"FS094 - 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