Water & Sanitation
Since 2004, nine springs have been capped and twenty wells constructed, providing safe, clean water for over 12,500 people.
A total of thirteen toilet blocks (benefitting 8,700 pupils and staff) have also been constructed and training days stressing the importance of Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) have been run in these communities.
See one of the wells in action.
Cattle troughs have also been constructed at many sites to provide for livestock.
Water from natural springs is often harmful to health for those who drank from it. By capping the spring and building a storage tank, clean, safe water is available for more people.
Communities are equipped with the training and tools to maintain their water collection points.
Using simple, appropriate technology, For-Ethiopia ensures the sustainability of its projects.
Five hand-dug wells have been completed using money raised by the charity.
With the help of a water engineer, a suitable location was identified to construct a well. The well was hand-dug before being lined with concrete rings. A plastic pipe was then inserted and connected to a hand-pump.
The well provides fresh, clean water to many households.
We have employed drilling engineers to oversee this work and see this has proved to be a great opportunity to provide fresh, clean water to areas where a hand-dug well would not be able to reach the water table.
Latest Water & Sanitation News
February Newsletter
In November our team of six visited Ethiopia, partly for a trip to the historic North and a trek in the Simien Mountains, partly to take part in the Great Ethiopian Run and raise money, but the highlight of the tour was the visit to Addis Alem. There, they visited the...
Water water everywhere…
News from Ethiopia We have just had word from Ethiopia that two of our water projects have been completed at the northern villages of Besso and Liti Gulit. These are both what is called ‘spring caps’. Spring capping does not require a well to be dug. On the hillsides,...
Help fund our water projects!
Since 2004, For-ethiopia have carried out a number of water projects. These have been in the form of spring cappings, hand dug wells and drilled wells providing clean safe water to over 25,000 people. Since 2011 we have been very fortunate to have received funds from...
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As a small charity, we have the benefit of very low overheads. We do not hire professional fundraisers or rent expensive offices.
Because of this we are able to put more of the money directly to projects to benefit those who need it!
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