Lalibela Group
The group was established in 2012 through Sheila and Yossi Shalhevet from “save a child’s heart” organization who came back from the village looking for help with WASH issues (see Lalibel’s Rain harvesting system).
As the partnership continued the community mapped with the group another needs, those we wish to help the community address with our direct help or by giving them the tools and empower the members to initiate the change.
Partners; the community of Meskele Kristos, SYHLA, WFA.
Where: Meskele Kristos, Lalibela, Ethiopia
The group is working today with the community on two main issues; lack of clean water for drinking and sanitation in the local school and the issue of indoor air pollution caused by cooking.
The improved stove project is trying to address the second one. The traditional way of cooking in most houses is on open fire surrounded bricks by using wood or animal manure as fuel. This is done inside the family house or at a small separated structure near by. Inside that house, the cooking is causing sever indoor air pollution and by that many community members (mostly woman) have a verity of respiratory, skin, eye and other diseases.
The main aim of this project is to improve the community’s health, specially within women.
Status: Design
Video of making a mud brick from the group’s workshop in Mitzpe Ramon April 2018
