Using scrap metal and imagination, this contractor builds lifelines in Tunisia
Chadia Jarrahi can still taste the sting of embarrassment she felt when the principal sent her young sons home from school, their clothes too wet and muddy to attend class. From that day on, whenever the river was high, Ms. Jarrahi took the two boys piggyback across the ravine separating her village from the main road on the other side.
“I would get home soaked,” she says under the shade of a tree overlooking the river she used to see as her daily adversary. Some days, the water was too high for anyone to cross at all.
It’s a common story in the mountainous, interior regions of rural Tunisia, where fewer government resources are directed to infrastructure and
