A 24-year-old Nigerian woman, Remarkable Mary, in August last year made a record achievement in her humanitarian work - she built a borehole water project for a neglected oil-producing community in Akwa Ibom, South-south Nigeria.
It was the first time in several decades the people of Edonwick, an island in Eastern Obolo Local Government Area, would fetch water from a tap, before now they were used to scooping water from ponds or the Atlantic Ocean.
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