Tanzania, Feb. 13 -- There are people in the world who come up with innovations to solve challenges they personally experienced in the past.

One of these people is Suzan Yumbe, founder and executive director of AfyaPlus, an organisation based in Iringa.

She grew up in the rural area of Geita with her grandparents.

Their village had no access to water.

It was the responsibility of women and girls to fetch water for home use.

Some of the girls were forced to abscond from school on days when they could not get water near their homes.

They had to walk for kilometres to fetch water that would only run out in a short time.

This affected the girls' performances in school.

They also could not engage in meaningful economic activities as th...