Previous Beku Golba Situation

The community had to collect water from an open spring, sharing the same water source with animals that was often used as a toilet. This left the Beku Golba community easily open to illnesses such as bronchitis, tonsillitis, diarrhoea, eye and respiratory infections as well as the deadly malaria.

The Beku Golba Community's Role

The community provided and collected wood and stone needed for the project’s construction. Community members also helped to dig and then cover the ditches for the steel pipes as well as storing materials during the construction period. In addition they took part in a week long sanitation and hygiene training program. We involved the community in as many aspects as possible, to help them to take real ownership and satisfaction from their successfully completed project.

Current Project: Gura Ferda water supply in the Bench Maji zone

Currently we are raising funds for the Gura Ferda water supply project to begin construction in January 2011. The Gura Ferda project is found 600kms South West of Addis Ababa and is going to be a series of hand-dug wells and capped springs to help an estimated 15,000 Ethiopians over 4 years. Currently the clean water coverage is just 14%, with the residents drinking from collected rain water for 4 months and consuming contaminated spring, unprotected well, or stream water for the remaining 8 months of the year.

Please visit our website again in November to see the full project proposal.

Current Project: Saglie Spring Development

Water4Ethiopia has recently launched the Water4Ethiopia Bottled Water range. Each bottle sold provides 1 Ethiopian with clean water for 1 year. To find out more about the Saglie Spring Development on the back of the Bottled Water range, please click here to visit our Bottled Water page.