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HAND PUMP WATER WELL IN KUSHET GIDIBA, TIGRAY REGION
The well operated by a hand pump has been officially opened on February 25th 2009 thanks to the financial support secured by Giampiero & Sabrina Gelmi and their friends.

Kushed gidiba is located in the woreda of Ganta Afeshum, 20 kilometres west of Adigrat city, in Tigray region, Ethiopia and counts approximately 600 inhabitants.

 
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 well, operated by a hand pump, has been drilled at a depth of 50 metres and has been dull fenced.


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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