{"id":24,"date":"2019-11-15T15:16:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idrb.wpengine.com\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2021-04-12T14:31:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:31:24","slug":"ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/idrb.org\/?page_id=24","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Windmill wheel assembly in Northern Ethiopia<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Young men from the village lend a helping hand moving the water storage tank into place<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Community gathered around the new water distribution point<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Dedication of new windmill water system<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Opening day of the new windmill. The local ladies try out the new water distribution point<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Young girl filling her water jug at a water distribution point<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Local boys taking the opportunity to wash up and try out the new water distribution point<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Testing water distribution point<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Mixing concrete for water distribution point<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Testing solar pump installation in Abergele, Ethiopia<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Hand pumps like this are plentiful throughout Ethiopia, although many are broken and prevent access to the water in the well.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    This hand pump will be removed and replaced with a windmill pump water system<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    During project proposal development, officials from the local water department meet with IDRB staff to discuss a potential development site<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Water storage tanks ready for connection to the windmill<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Young men from the village unloading the water storage tanks<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Women and girls wait for the opening of water distribution point<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Overview of the well and solar pump system at Abergele, Ethiopia<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Water Department technicians posed next to the completed solar pump system installed at Abergele, Ethiopia<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Young boys from the village volunteer to unload sand from IDRB's truck<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Windmill in Asketema, Ethiopia successfully raised<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Windmill tower and gearbox assembly in Asketema, Ethiopia<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Local workers assemble the concrete form for the water distribution point<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Installation of a windmill tower anchor system<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Successful removal of a broken submersible pump. A new solar powered pump system will provide 22,000 liters of water per day to a country side town<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    A line to a water distribution point being flushed and tested. After being flushed and valves installed, water collection will be as easy as turning the handle on the valve<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n

    During 2013, IDRB-Ethiopia operated two medical clinic\/nutritional feeding projects in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia. The Dire Dawa Health Initiative Project the Dire Dawa Health, Nutrition, and Community Health Education Project were concluded on May 31, 2013. In the fall of 2013, IDRB entered into its third year as a partner with Voice in the Wilderness Development Organization (VWDO) as a funding-partner for the operation of two elementary schools in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. In February 2013 IDRB completed implementation of the Melkadida Refugee Camp Schools Supplies Project.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    One of the most critical needs of rural communities in Ethiopia is access to clean drinking water.\u00a0 Contaminated water is a leading cause of illness and infant mortality.\u00a0 Some communities lack clean water because they do not have a well to provide it, so they use local surface water sources, most of which have biological contaminates from livestock.\u00a0 However, IDRB-Ethiopia has observed that many communities have borehole wells with hand pumps that no longer work.\u00a0 The broken pumps prevent community access to the clean water in the well.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    The daily task of water collection falls primarily to women and girls.\u00a0 For many, this requires a walk of up to three hours to the nearest well where they must wait in line for their turn to fill their yellow jerry cans with water.\u00a0 Because of the time required to complete this daily task, many girls are unable to attend school.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    Since 2015 IDRB-Ethiopia has been working to resolve these water issues.\u00a0 Ethiopia is blessed with abundant wind and solar resources and IDRB-Ethiopia is replacing hand pumps with wind-powered, gear-driven windmill pumps and solar- powered submersible pumps to provide reliable, long-term solutions to water pumping needs.\u00a0 The system delivers water to a distribution point that has four water faucets.\u00a0 This allows four jerry cans to be filled at one time and significantly reduces the time and effort required to collect water.\u00a0 Another benefit is less wasted water compared to the traditional hand pump since the water stream from the faucet can go directly into the jerry can without unnecessary spillage.\u00a0 At one former hand pump site a mother stated, \u201cBefore the windmill my daughter could not attend school because she didn\u2019t have time to collect water before school started.\u00a0 Now, because the windmill provides the water so much faster, my daughter has started attending school.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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    As IDRB-Ethiopia introduces these new pumping technologies, we are working with the Zone Water Bureaus to train their technicians on the installation and maintenance of the equipment.\u00a0 The long-term goal is that the local water departments will have trained technicians capable of installing and maintaining the wind and solar pumping equipment on their own.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    During 2013, IDRB-Ethiopia operated two medical clinic\/nutritional feeding projects in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia. The Dire Dawa Health Initiative Project the Dire Dawa Health, Nutrition, and Community Health Education Project were concluded on May 31, 2013. In the fall of 2013, IDRB entered into its third year as a partner with… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idrb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idrb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idrb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idrb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idrb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idrb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idrb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idrb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}