What
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Communities worldwide depend on water for
survival, yet more than 1 billion people lack proper access to
clean drinking water. Impacting health, food, climate,
transportation and local markets, inadequate water resources and
their management can lead to disease, malnutrition, poor economic
growth and conflict. Ethiopia’s central areas are drought-prone,
and inefficient use of fuel has depleted available resources,
creating a chronic water crisis for more than 14 million
Ethiopians.
Activities
CHF's programs in Ethiopia are training women
about proper hygiene and water usage, fostering effective usage and
management through local associations, and building infrastructure
such as deep-wells, hand-dug wells, and rehabilitated springs.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $14,046
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $10,954
Total Funding Goal: $25,000
Additional Documentation
This project
has provided additional documentation in a PDF file
(projdoc.pdf).
Resources
Why
Potential Long Term Impact
Better water usage can improve the environmental
conditions that cause drought. Access to clean drinking water frees
the women and children, who are forced to carry water from distant
sources, to pursue education and income-generating activities.
Project Message
In the past we had to walk for 4 hours to get
water and we still never had enough. Now we have water to drink,
water to wash with, time to take our children to school, and
finally time to weave again.
- (Anonymous), CHF beneficiary
When
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 01,
2007.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving
project catalog on February 10, 2006.
Latest Update from the Field
Fatima's Story
By Tseday Bizuayehu - CHF Ethiopia Staff,
November 01, 2007 04:20 PM
For the last year, Mrs. Fatima Ali has been living in the Somali
region of Ethiopia with her pastoral community. She had no choice
but to drink water directly from unprotected shallow wells and the
Shabele river. She knew nothing of water treatment and water
purification systems, and she and her family suffered from diarrhea
and other water borne diseases as a result. Thanks to the
LIVE-WATER program, CHF International provided Fatima with training
in hygiene and sanitation and in the use of water purification
systems, such as Pur and water guard. Now, knowing the importance
of water treatment, Fatima always makes sure to purify her water
before drinking it. With her new set of water treatment equipment,
she has greatly improved the hygiene and sanitation of her own
home.
Fatima feels that CHF’s programming in the Somali region has opened
people’s eyes to the possibility of a brighter future by
strengthening the disaster response capacity of some of the most
vulnerable households in the region. Fatima now shares the skills
which she has obtained from CHF International and holds local
workshops on hygiene and sanitation in her neighborhood so as to
help her neighbors share in the better quality of life as
well.
“I am safe from diseases & I underst[and] that the cause was
drinking untreated water.” Fatima said.
Fatima believes that CHF has done good work for both the water
supply and hygiene and sanitation of the Somali region. She points
to herself as proof. Fatima, a mother of two daughters and a son,
lives in the Dud’ade, Gode region of Ethiopia. She is just one of
the beneficiaries whose health has improved dramatically as a
result of the water and sanitation aspect of the LIVE-WATER
program.
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