Plumbing for women

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Solomon Islands men think that plumbing is a job for men only.

But a funding agency here does not agree with them.

The agency, the Solomon Islands Development Trust, has just finished a workshop in Honiara on how women can maintain piped water.

Although it did not attract many women, the trust planned to organise another workshop.

It hopes more women will participate then because more and more water supply systems are being installed in the country.

The trust feels that as women are becoming the major users of piped water they should know how to maintain the system. George Atkin in Honiara.