Give the Gift of Sight In Ethiopia, 500,000 people suffer from preventable blindness due to cataracts. Most of these people have very restricted mobility, both at home and in the community, and are unable to be self-reliant. Blind people are easily burned using the...
Ethiopia, along with many other African countries, is facing a water crisis. 43 percent of Ethiopians lack access to safe water and 72 percent lack access to improved sanitation (www.water.org). These figures grow even higher in the rural areas where we work. Lack of...
After the trenches were complete, Richard Matanda, ENA Director of Africa Operations, delivered the water pipes to be installed.Once the pipe had been installed, community members worked together to join all of the pipes together and check for leaks. Clean water can...
Akako, Ethiopia is 80 kilometers from Addis Ababa. The population of Akako is approximately 8,000 and the village has never had clean water…until ENA installed a deep water well. Their former water source was a large pond which can be difficult to access due to...
