Men spend all day scoring rubber trees while women use most of their time searching for and carrying water and preparing meals. Neither gender has any time to look after the children. By building water tanks and 19 kilometers of water pipes in six villages, World Vision made water readily available to some 6,000 people.
艾瑞克森指出，尼亞斯居民 9 成以橡膠維生，男人整天忙著割橡膠，女人則需要費力找水挑水、料理三餐，根本沒時間照顧孩子，展望會因此在 6 個村莊建設了儲水槽和 19 公里長的水管，解決了 6,000 人的用水問題。