Anitha and Aatma Rao

Anitha and Aatma Rao belong to Tai Bai Thanda 10 Km away from Mukehd in Maharastra state...

Living waters brings the much needed water source to Tai Bai Thanda

Anitha and Aatma Rao belong to Tai Bai Thanda 10 Km away from Mukehd in  Maharastra state. A tribal-dominated village Tai Bai Thanda is populated with people belonging to the Banjaran tribe. This small village of barely 300 people is deprived of many important facilities, like a proper healthcare center, a school or even water.  Tap water comes once in three days for the entire village. Even at this time they don’t get enough to collect for the all the 50 families leave alone preserving for the next few days. The only alternate water source in the village is an open pond half a kilometer away from the village. Having no other go, the residents of Tai Bai rely on this source despite its unhygienic condition.

Anitha and Aatma Rao’s is one such family that bears the cost of under-development. They have been living in the village since a long time. Ankush their son is now 19 and he is a laborer in Mumbai, Shoba Bai their 10 year old daughter stays at home while Heeraman their 8 year old son goes to school. The family barely manages to survive on the monthly income of Rs 1800. Both Anitha and Aatma work as laborers. Despite his limited income, Aatma Rao assists a pastor Devajanaik in his work in remote areas. Whenever he gets some free time, he spends it in assisting the pastor.

Anitha and Aatma have to work to make ends meet. The eldest son is also not at home for the mother to think about staying back at home. This leaves the responsibility of getting water on the small shoulders of Shoba, the ten year old girl. This stops her from going to school as well because if she goes to study there would be no one to take care of the household chores and the very important chore of getting water.

Seeing the condition of Anitha and Aatma Rao, and the others suffering with the water problem. Pastor Devajanaik contacted OBI for help. OBI conducted a research and the found out the genuine need of the village before setting to work. A bore well would reduce the villages problem considerably they felt. They scaled the landscape and found the best suitable place to dig a bore well in the village and immediately set to action. Now with the rest of the villagers, Anitha and Aatma Rao rejoice for their dire need that was met in such a miraculous, unexpected way.