Caring Deeply: Zanzibar Husband, Montana Wife, Aim to Dig a Well in Africa
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July 02, 2009 4:04 PM
Clean water. For Missoula residents Said and Sara Hemed, it would be a dream come true if they could finish digging a well in Said's native Zanzibar village so people there could have water to drink and use for washing -- without having to walk a mile to a water pump and haul it back in buckets.
Said (pronounced sy'-eh-dee) and his wife, Sara, a Montana native, have other dreams too. They want to provide classes for both adults and children on the six acres Said owns in Mchekeni, a village of about 300 people in Zanzibar, the small island off the coast of Tanzania.
Along the way, they've launched a group, Artisans for Africa, and are selling handmade arts and crafts -- batik purses, screen-printed fabrics, leather baby booties, jewelry -- to raise the money needed to finish digging a well on the property.
