Ankaboka
A few women sitting next to the pump explain to us that the big difference in their lives now with the pump is that they save money because they don’t need to send their kids to the hospital and buy expensive medicine. The treatment for stomach maladies cost around 5000 - 6000 ariary, which they often cannot afford. They can use the money they save for buying food, sugar and petrol to light a candle, for example. They also explain that they have some extra time left now they don’t have to boil the water before drinking.
A few more people gather as we sit around the pump and they explain that the pump contributes to fihavanana because it improves the communication between people and everybody is allowed to use it. They also believed it has strengthened the development of the tanindrazana, the bond with their ancestral land. This sub-village consists of antemore people who all share the same tanindrazana, but it is found elsewhere. So at some point in life, when they are very old, they will all return to their tanindrazana.