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Addi Ghiddad, Eastern Tigray, Etiopia water well |
| This water well, the second one financed
in Ethiopia, through Butterfly Foundation, by the no profit association
I Volontari l'Accoglienza of Don Sergio Messina, based in Rocca Canavese
( Turin) has been drilled in ADDI GHIDDAD,a village located in Tigray
region, 8 kilometers far from the town of Shire, direction Adua. |
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| The technical realization of this project
has been entrusted to ACS ( Adigrad Catholic Secretariat), an organization
working since many years in Tigray region and equipped with machineries
and technical personnel in condition to provide technical execution
and maintenance of the works.
The project coordination has been secured by VIS ( Volontariato
Internazionale per lo Sviluppo) regional office in Ethiopia which
is Butterfly foundation partner in Ethiopia.
The total cost of the project has been of 15.155 euro and the beneficiaries
350 families of the area ( 2.000 people approx.) , mostly children,women
and old people,living in very poor conditions in the town of Addi
Ghiddad
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Tigray region in located in the North of the Country and covers
a surface of 61.500 sq. kilometers. i.e. the 5,6% of the total population
of Ethiopia. People living in Tigray are five million and the 85%
of them is represented by rural population with a growth index of
3% .
In Ethiopia only the 22% of the population has access to clean water
sources, but in these rural areas such a percentage lowers down
to 11% ; four over one hundred people have access to sufficient
sanitary conditions.
This region, located along the borders with Eritrea has been subject
to almost 20 year war with Eritrea, and still bears the consequences
of this long fighting.
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