Lighting Up Their Lives

Salman’s Mutjaba’s story (‘The Pandemic Lit Up Our Village’, My Story, September) about how his village of Shujghal came together during the global pandemic to build a micro hydro power plant, was a stand-out read for me. It made me think of the trivial things we can anguish over, and things we take for granted in developed nations, such as the simple act of turning on a tap or light switch, without knowing their source or the science behind this. Despite suffering the

devastating loss of a loved family member on the job, this hard-working community persevered and achieved a life-changing goal. There is indeed ‘strength in numbers’. SUSAN ALLEN