Two water boreholes for Dassanesh communities

During our various projects in Ethiopia, we have always been struck by the difficulty of access to drinking water for tribal populations. We therefore decided to focus on this sector for our 2024 project.

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On the border between Ethiopia and Kenya, the populations targeted by this project live on the northeastern shores of Lake Turkana, which has its own delta and 15% of its surface area in Ethiopian territory. In addition to the bacteriological nests that the warm waters of Lake Turkana represent, they have become salty due to evaporation over the years, making them totally unsuitable for consumption.

Adding to this already precarious situation, the semi-arid region we support through our actions is notably the site of droughts prolonged by climate change. The result is major water stress, which we hope to alleviate through this project.

We are focusing on this hamlet of around a thousand people, whose unsanitary conditions are exacerbated by increasingly harsh climatic conditions. This clean water point will enable them to stabilize their living conditions and drastically reduce the infant diseases currently caused by the only perennial source of water, the waters of Lake Turkana.