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When spiders unite they can tie up a lion

- Ethiopian proverb

Recommended basic water requirement for drinking, bathing, sanitation services and food preparation is 12 1/2 gallons per person per day.

Average Ethiopian use: 2 1/2 gallons
Average U.S.A. use: 176 gallons

    "All peoples, whatever their stage of development and their social and economic conditions, have the right to have access to drinking water in quantities and of a quality equal to their basic needs"
                - United Nations Water Conference, 1977

Why Promoting Hygiene Matters:
  • Diarrhea kills 230,000 children under the age of 5 each year in Ethiopia.
  • Diarrhea does more than bring disease and early death, it brings loss of nutrition, malnutrition, and stunting of children's physical and intellectual growth
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Safe Water = significant reduction of waterborne diseases, 6% to 25% of diarrhea
Safe Water = ability to wash face and hands = significant reduction of trachoma


For as little as 7 pennies, you can help!
  • $4.70 for a school uniform
  • $1.63 for school supplies for a year
  • $0.07 for a bar of soap
  • $1 for a reading book
  • $35 for a triple desk
  • $10 for a bench
  • $2,300 for school well
  • $365 for piped water for a school well
  • $0.40 for drinking bottle
  • $12,000 for school latrine
  • $15 for soccer ball
  • $1 for jump rope
  • $17.50 for a white cane
  • $4.50 for a ream of Braille paper
  • $35 for a beehive
  • $2 for a sickle for the women or child to weed and harvest
  • $78 for a family latrine
  • $400 for a concrete floor
  • $2,100 for a village well

Safe Water

 

To see what Project Ethiopia has accomplished so far with the school and village wells - click here

 

Wells and Piped-Water Systems

 

Only 31% of rural Ethiopia has safe water*


Thanks to Your Generous Support:

Schools have safe water:
5 Wells

  • Walaji Elementary School (1,500 students)
  • Bacha Elementary School (1,233 students)
  • West Berayta Elementary School (452 students)
  • Girarghe Primary School (220 students)
  • Ziguda Elementary School (1020 students)

3 Piped Water
  • Dangla 03 Riverside Elementary School (1,963 students)
  • Abiot Godana Elementary School (1,485 students) - ready in 2012
  • Mengeshu Jemberee 9th and 10th grade (6,000 students)
6 Villages have safe water (wells):
  • East Berayta
  • West Dubta 
  • East Dubta
  • Bacha Neighborhood
  • North Girarghe
  • Central Berayta 

Village woman at a well
 
Awoke with two students at a school well.
 
Dennis checking out the new piped water system at Dangla 03 Elementary School (1,500 students).

 
Before the wells were dug, children got their water from these streams.
 
 
REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE of wells is done by the village workers. 
Digging the wells and installing the pumps has given Project Ethiopia workers the expertise to maintain and repair the wells.  Three of the wells developed problems that was quickly remedied because workers have this expertise.
 
WATER QUALITY is monitored by the Government, testing regularly for purity and adding chlorine when necessary.

Waterborne diseases cause 80% of illnesses and death in the developing world**

In Ethiopia 230,000 children under 5 die every year from diarrhea

 

 

*WHO. Report of the Joint Government of Ethiopia
**Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council website





You've made a big difference!
 

11/11/11 Safe Water since 7/1/05

5    School wells for 3,400 students $2,100
6    Village wells $2,100
3    Piped water systems for 2 schools for 7,963 students $365
2,000 High quality drinking bottles $0.50
 
A Great Beginning - Help Us Do MORE!
 
 
 
 
 
Project Ethiopia  c/o Interfaith Community Church 1763 NW 62nd Street, Seattle, WA 98107
Project Ethiopia has 501(c)(3) status so US donations are tax deductible