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HAND PUMP WATER WELL WORAA ATLE 2,TIGRAY REGION, ETHIOPIA |
| On February
2009 a hand - pump water well has been officially opened in front
of several hundred people at Wora Atle tabia, Irob woreda, four hours
drive far from Adigrat city, Eastern Tigray region, thanks to the
financial support secured by the non profit association " IL
GIRASOLE" . This association had already promoted a fund raising
that enabled the realization of another water well in the same area
in March 2008.
The area is very dry and access to the intervention area is extremely
difficult; the local people live upon agriculture and subsistence.
Rain falls are very rare and irregular compromising very often the
harvest.
Intestinal infections are quite spread especially among children
and mainly due to polluted water. |
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| The well
which has been hand dug is operated by a hand pump meets the requirements
of approx. 700 people and twelve hundred students of Wora Atle school.
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. |
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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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