By Tsegay Wolde-Georgis | Project Manager
Dear Supports,
The focus of the quarter has been on responding to the current drought due to el nino. The summer rainfall in the village has been very disappointing. If it was not for the safety net program of the country there could have been famine. In the villag of Atebes there were only 6 adequate rainfall days in the summer leading to the collapse of agriculture.
As reported earlier, the water harvesting systems the project developed have been very useful as storage of water relief coming from the government. The two 20,000-liter capacity roof water harvesting system in the church are cleaned and serving as collection of drinking water being delivered by trucks. The 65 cubic meter concrete surface water harvesting tank is being used to store water form the trucks for animals.
Another important activity by the community and the local development agents is the construction of soil and water conservation systems on the slops. This is to help any rain in the futue to be recharged and capture the soil that is often eroded. This will contirbute to future soil fertility and imrpoved stream system for the people.
Again, we will keep you updated about our activities in the future.
Thank you for your support and for becoming change agents.
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