The daily trek on foot by the women and children of El Mogote, Dominican Republic, takes 5 to 6 hours. Carrying pails as they navigate snaking dirt roads to the nearest water source, members of the 800-person day-laborer community fill those containers and head home in a cyclic mission built out of necessity but negated by the known contaminants in the very liquid intended to bring life to their shared agricultural village.
Located roughly 60 kilometers northwest of the D-backs' Baseball Academy in Boca Chica -- where the big league ballclub provides its prospects with the opportunity to earn a high school diploma regardless of how far they advance with their baseball careers -- the D-backs are making yet another impact for the better in the Dominican thanks to infielder Nick Ahmed, his wife Amanda and the Ahmed Family Double Play Fund's bid to benefit hunger and provide basic living necessities for the impoverished in the United States and Dominican Republic -- including the 230 families in El Mogote.