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WaterAid | Overcoming gender divides

Women are now training to be mechanics to keep their village handpumps working.

In the villages near Mahoba, community members weren't trained to maintain or repair the government-installed handpumps. This meant that if they broke, they could take months to fix, forcing people back to open wells or on long walks to other pumps.

WaterAid's partner Gramonati Sansthan have trained women to become mechanics to maintain their local pumps. Uma Devi explains, "By becoming mechanics we have broken the tradition and shown that women can also do this kind of work."

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