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Serge Sadzo, Ecover Belgium and Sadie Ramm, Ecover UK
Naomi Irving and Rona Higgins from WaterAid
Mark Pengelly and Marco Betti

Ethiopia here we come!

Posted by Sadie Ramm

Since Ecover embarked on our partnership with WaterAid, I was really excited about the prospect of visiting Ethiopia to see for myself the impact that water and sanitation projects can have on the communities that we'll be helping. We travelled out for a week in April, visiting some villages which had no access to safe, clean water, and others which had benefitted from projects.

Here you can read all about our trip, view photos and films, listen to interviews with people that we spoke to and find out all about the people who live in the area and how water effects their lives. We'll have regular updates from the people on the ground as the projects progress so you can keep coming back to see whats new.

Our group consisted of 6 people - I'm the Brand Manager for Ecover UK, Serge Sadzo, Senior Communications Specialist for Ecover Belgium, Rona Higgins and Naomi Irvine from WaterAid UK, Mark Pengelly, our cameraman and Marco Betti our photographer.

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