On June 26th 2009 in front of the local population the Butterfly Foundation opened a hand pump operated water well in SEDIE, a village in Eastern  Tigray Region, Ethiopia. The well has been funded by the parents in the memory of their son PAOLO, a young boy who  tragically passed away a few years ago,  in his twenties, in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, Italy.
This project has been implemented at Seide, in  the Irob woreda, 35 kilometres far from Adigrat city,  and counts approx. 900 beneficiaries;  the well has been hand dug at a depth of 35 meters and it  took three months for its completion.

Tigray region in located in the North of the Country and covers a surface of 61.500 sq. kilometres. 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.

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.