On June 26th 2009, in front of the local  population and many other people coming from the nearby villages the  Butterfly foundation opened  a new water well  at  a depth of 40 meters in  AWADO, Irob woreda, 45 kilometres north east od Adigrat down town, in Tigray region, Ethiopia.

The area is extremely dry and agriculture is the only available mean of sustenance. Rain fall are very poor and harvesting is frequently at risk.
Intestinal infections are quite spread especially among children and mainly due to polluted water.

The funding of this project has been secured by the association “ VOLONTARI L’ACCOGLIENZA” with legal seat in Rocca Canavese ( Turin)  which is  headed by Don Sergio Messina,
The well,  operated by a hand pump has been duly  fenced and   will have 700 beneficiaries living in the villages of the woreda

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.

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.