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Why Ethiopia? |
| There are more people in Ethiopia without clean water than any other country in Africa. There are 70+ million people living in the country, and 75% of the population lacks access to safe, clean drinking water. This April, we visited 33 communities in Ethiopia in need of clean water. We heard stories of leeches, droughts, women carrying water for 3 hours and children dying of diarrhea from drinking polluted pond water. We promised to help every single one of them. | |
| Facts & figures. |
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FACT: There are more people in Ethiopia without clean water thanany other country in Africa. 75% of the country lacks access to clean, safe drinking water. |
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1 in 4. Only one in every four people in Ethiopia have access to clean water while just 13 percent have access to basic sanitation. |
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WHY DON'T THEY BOIL THE WATER? |
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water and walking. Collecting water is a back-breaking chore. Many women walk up to 3 hours, carrying 40-pound jerry cans filled with polluted water that is likely to make them sick. |
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LOW RAINFALL AND FAMINE. The country’s persistently low rainfall is a major factor in the extreme poverty that exists in rural areas as well as periodic famines that affect millions of people. |
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water and education. Many girls never get an opportunity to go to school because the responsibility of collecting water takes precedence. |
A Glimmer of Hope is charty: water's implementing partner in Ethiopia. Since its inception in 2000, A Glimmer of Hope Foundation has helped more than one million people improve their quality of life by managing multi-purpose water projects that include protected faucets for drinking water, showers, latrines, basins for washing clothes, dishes and utensils, and separate drinking troughs for animals. For more information, visit aglimmerofhope.org
Past charity: water projects implemented by A Glimmer of Hope:
Past charity: water projects implemented by A Glimmer of Hope:
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Bukite Village
population: 300+ people | GPS: N11º39.722 / E 036º55.210 In January, we saw Achenef, 18 years old, standing ankle-deep in mud. He showed us the leech that had almost snuck into his drinking water. charity: water local partner AGOH (A Glimmer of Hope) constructed a spring protection in Bukite Village, building a spring box with three taps, the community's first shower, and a cattle trough downhill. Pure, clean water now flows in Bukite. |
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Gasi Springs population: 300+ people | GPS: N 11º39.474 / E 036º55.761 Health worker Guday, 21 (left) will live in Gasi for 5 years and work with the village. Because they are now equipped with a fresh water supply, she has begun training the community in sustainable sanitation and hygiene practices. “When the people got water before, half of it was mud. People were often sick and paying for clinic visits.” She says. She expects the community to be much healthier now with clean water. |
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