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Despite having no regular access to water, the women of Athol are managing to survive and reduce malnutrition through dryland farming and homestead gardening, reusing every drop of rain and waste water.

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Water Management Project of the Rural Poor in South Africa Anthol Village Limpopo Province Margaret Nyalunga (Athol Women’s Food Security Group): [Foreign] Ma Tshepo Khumbane (Development Activist): So they never just are sitting down and say just let there’s nothing we can do that’s why – because they’re not also shunning responsibility. We dance and sing and everything becomes very focused and centered to the passion for water for food. Water for food movement is also looking at communities getting empowered so that they also move into the water delivery chains build their capacity to lobby and be strong and so that they produce a very strong voice and that voice comes from grassroots. We are making sure that we are represented even on the highest level so that there is still issues that we hand on grassroots level with ourselves must also influence change of mind and change of policies. Barbara Schreiner (Department of Water Affairs, South Africa): The thickest realization of most a lot of people if we deal with poverty in this country their own future is not awfully secure, you’re talking about established farmers and people like that they do relax but things are going to have to change. People find creative of helping make a change.