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Wora'atle, Eastern Tigray, Etiopia |
On March 16th 2008, a water
well with hand pump has been opened by Butterfly Foundation together
with the no profit association IL GIRASOLE that secured the necessary
funds.
Francesca, mother of Pierluigi Tozzi and her associate Tiziana in
front of the whole village celebrated with a speech the opening of
this water well for the benefit of 250 families ( 1.300 people apprx.)
living in Wora 'atle, Eastern Tigray, Ethiopia, in the woreda of Irob,
two hours drive from Adigrat.
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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.
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.
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We thank the no profit association " IL GIRASOLE" in
the person of its founders Francesca & Tiziana for the great
donation made in name of Pierluigi who prematurely died due to a
serious genetic disease.
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