Former water carrier Immaculata Raphael is now a water engineer. She says she wants the next generation of girls to walk in her footsteps (Alannah Campbell/CBC)

The water she brought home wasn’t always safe to drink, but it was all that was available.

Today, this former water carrier is a water engineer for the regional government of Geita, in the northern part of Tanzania.

Raphael is part of a team that installed a water tower in the village of Kakora in May.

Kakora is the first of 12 communities in the Geita region scheduled to receive clean water by 2020, through an initiative funded in part by the Canadian government. Six projects are currently underway.