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Water well in Hadish Hivot, Eastern Tigray,Ethiopia
Hadish Hivot
water well, whose implementation has been financially supported by
Becatti family in memory of their son ANDREA, who prematurely left
the earth plane, has been opened on February 26th 2009 in Hadish Hivot
tabia, Tigray region, Ethiopia.
The well, operated by a hand pump and duly fenced, has been drilled
at a depth of 40 metres and secures clean waters to the village consisting
of 125 families, 625 people approx.
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.
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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Water well in Hadish Hivot, Eastern Tigray,Ethiopia