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\"charitywater_vertical_white\"The following is a story provided by charity: water detailing a community\u00a0that benefited from OWC’s 25th Anniversary campaign.<\/i><\/p>\n

In the Sharmay Community<\/a> in Ethiopia, people used to travel long distances down into a river to collect water. This especially affected women like Alem, who used to travel more than an hour to collect water from the river.<\/p>\n

Now that Alem has a water point in her community, she spends no more than 10 minutes walking to get water for her and her family. She says that time she saves every day helps her focus on taking care of her children, three of whom are in school during the day and three who are still at home. What\u2019s more, she now has time to earn extra income by starting a vegetable patch in her backyard and joining in the village’s soil and water conservation efforts.<\/p>\n

When describing the changes the project has made in her life, Alem exclaimed, \u201cthere is no good thing more than water!\u201d<\/p>\n

The community’s WASH (Water and Sanitation Hygiene) Committee agrees. They also shared the impact the well has made by decreasing the number of illnesses \u2013 especially amongst the community’s children \u2013 now that they no longer collect water from a river shared with their animals.<\/p>\n

Here’s Alem using her community’s new project, funded by OWC’s 25th Anniversary campaign<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Alem_CharityWater\"<\/p>\n

Here are other villages that have benefitted from OWC\u2019s campaign:<\/p>\n

ADIJEMBAL COMMUNITY<\/strong>
\nCountry:<\/strong> Ethiopia
\nPeople Served:<\/strong> 275
\nProject Type:<\/strong> Drilled Well
\nCompleted:<\/strong> Aug 2014<\/p>\n

SERDITSIFRO COMMUNITY<\/strong>
\nCountry:<\/strong> Ethiopia
\nPeople Served:<\/strong> 300
\nProject Type:<\/strong> Drilled Well
\nCompleted:<\/strong> Aug 2014<\/p>\n

MISTAY CHEW COMMUNITY<\/strong>
\nCountry:<\/strong> Ethiopia
\nPeople Served:<\/strong> 250
\nProject Type:<\/strong> Drilled Well
\nCompleted:<\/strong> Aug 2014<\/p>\n

GEREB HASLE\/GOLAGULTO COMMUNITY<\/strong>
\nCountry:<\/strong> Ethiopia
\nPeople Served:<\/strong> 300
\nProject Type:<\/strong> Drilled Well
\nCompleted:<\/strong> Aug 2014<\/p>\n

These villages now have access to safe and clean drinking water and have been trained on safe hygiene practices and basic maintenance of their water project. But there are still many, many people in need of safe drinking water. To find out more on how you can help, visit\u00a0charity: water<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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