Examples of anecdotes that can be used to raise communities' awareness and understanding on water points maintenance

This note gathers different examples coming from the daily life to emphasize the importance of water points maintenance.

Several anecdotes are used in Sierra Leone during meetings with the communities to make parallels with the importance of a preventive approach.

These examples are tools that can be adapted to the audience and the context.

Note written by Mathieu Métois, WaSH Knowledge managment coordinator for Inter Aide with the support of Gemma Kite and Yembeh Konteh, program managers in Sierra Leone.