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Wereda Gulo-Mekeda is located on the northern part of the Tigray regional state characterized by mountainous landscape with a limited supply of potable water. People there were suffering from this challenge, which was forcing them travel long distances to collect water.
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When the Ethiopian village of Enda Silassie worked with Water.org to install a new handpump, they also came together to choose a community water guardian.
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Letebrehan Gerezgiher is 24 years old and has three kids; Maytsada village is living in this small village. She says,”I used to travel two hours in the dry season in search of water and then, without taking a rest, prepare food for my children and husband, clean the house yard, ... More »
The residents of Adina Faso used to walk four hours each day to gather unclean water, but after working together with Water.org, they now have twenty-four-hour access to clean water, right in the middle of their village.
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Thanks to a new handpump in her community, Kebebush has been able to focus herself more fully on her education.
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In most rural areas of Tigray, women and young girls fetch water from open wells, springs and other unprotected sources of water. These water sources are often located in distant areas and mostly contain some impurities in the form of suspended or dissolved matter. In many cases the water looks ... More »
A stream full of worms, leeches and waterborne disease used to be their only option for Mezegaguf in rural Ethiopia. This community of 350, walked day to collect dirty water. Thanks to the generosity of people like you, they recently got a new well! Now, moms like Akberet Naizgi no ... More »
A new well such as this one makes for a drastically healthier community - currently, a child dies every twenty seconds from a water-related disease. This is a marked improvement over two years ago when the figure was closer to one child every fifteen seconds, but we believe that with ... More »
Twice daily, all over Sub-Saharan Africa, women and children must gather water for their families. This daily quest has led to some surprising, inventive collection methods. In this clip, a woman living in Ethiopia uses a traditional method of digging in the sand of a river bank for water which ... More »
As they get older, many young girls living in rural Africa drop out of school due to the lack of sanitation facilities, at which point they join their mothers on their twice daily search for water. In many cases, this translates to girls as young as eleven or twelve carrying ... More »
For millions around the world, open, stagnant water sources represent the only drinking water available. In this village (May Tseada, Ethiopia) the rainy season brings semi-potable water for only two months of the year, but just a few hundred feet below the ground there are aquifers which could provide clean, ... More »
For millions of people living in Ethiopia, hand dug wells such as the one seen here are the only available source of water. To fetch water, women and children have to walk as much as three hours round trip - twice a day.
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