Masai Warriors and their Search for Water: One Year Later
Apr 29th, 2009 Originally Posted by TreeHugger
Image from The Times
The heart warming story at last year’s London Marathon was the group of six Masai warriors who came to London to raise awareness and money to bring clean water to their village in Tanzania. The press and the public were fascinated to hear about these men who wore tires for shoes, carried swords and had never been on an airplane, or sipped tea.
They raised more than £100,000 ($147,000) and then the real challenges began. The villagers welcomed them back as heroes and expected that they would find water overnight.
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