Motivation Monday – December 16, 2024

Flor de María Cruz Montoya, a 43-year-old housewife, is one of the hundreds of women in Las Mariitas who devoted hours daily to collecting water on behalf of their families. When their primary water source—an open well—ran dry, women had to return to walking long distances to fetch water from rivers, streams, or hand-dug wells. “The open well we depended on dried up and no longer provided water, so we had to turn to other sources. [Read more]