St Laurence’s CAFOD project: Walk for Water, supplying wells in Ethiopia

Notes on this Blog The articles below give some background to our parish project supporting CAFOD's 'Walk for Water' campaign to supply water wells in the arid Afar region of northern Ethiopia. The articles cover the following topics: Religions in Ethiopia, the Afar region and recent history Constructing & maintaining a deep water, solar powered well The blog was written by Jim Infield - feedback welcome to jim.infield1@gmail.com Religions in Ethiopia, the Afar region and recent history Ethiopia, an ancient home to Jews, Christians and Muslims Ethiopia, or Abyssinia as it was historically known, is an ancient country with a long and rich history and has been home to the earliest Jews, Christians and Muslims. It is one of the oldest Christian countries in the world dating from the first century AD when St Philip is said to have arrived in Tigray, in the north of Ethiopia. Many languages are spoken - the original being Gaez, which has one of the oldest written alphabe