Reminds me of an old PBS show on Africa years ago.
The women traveled five miles to get water.
The UN then drills them a well and shows them how to use it.
Two years later the women are traveling 5 miles to get water as the well pump is broke, and NONE of the men will fix it.
Result, The UN brings in parts and teaches the WOMEN how to pull and repair it as the men refuse to do anything.
I remember a Wall Street Journal article a couple of decades ago on a similar subject to what you just posted.
The reporter was hanging out with some men in Jamaica (I think). The men were lounging around on a hillside watching women walk up and down the hill with empty water canisters on their heads on the way down and full of water on the way back up.
Some of the women were pregnant and the men were making bets among themselves which women would be able to make the uphill trek (fully laden with water) without having to stop and rest.
That image has stuck in my mind all these years and I thought of it immediately when I read your post.
and factions and villages fight over the wells. Everyone was happy to see Southern Somalia get independence but their government is still as corrupt as can be and no developing is taking place. You still have UN programs to dig wells that will go unrepaired soon enough.
I remember a story in the Business section of the Dallas Morning News about a US company establishing a lettuce (or something) farm just over the border in Mexico.
The American bosses were stunned to see their new employees pooping in the field where the harvesting was taking place. So they brought in port-a-potties.... had to teach them how to use it... and the toilet paper too!!!