Raising income for 70 single Mom's living in slum

Dear all respected partner,

This is a project report on raising income for 70 single mom’s living in slum

We are grateful for what you are doing in our project, without your support we couldn’t have an opportunity of changing others life.

Background

Yengat Birhan Charity Organization is an indigenous humanitarian organization established by a volunteer health professional that represent a family committed to assist disadvantaged family especially marginalized women and child. The family has a long story of supporting disadvantaged children and their family for over four years using their own financial and material resources plus rich experience in humanitarian service. Since February, 2016, the organization approaches friends and individuals who share the vision of the founder and able to get financial, material and technical support and continued operating in collaboration with Yeka Sub city Woreda 08 and the surrounding community; in the area of women economic empowerment, improve school enrolment of disadvantaged children and improve the health seeking behavior of disadvantaged family.

Our mission is to empower poor and disadvantaged individuals, family and communities, by helping to actualizing their latent potential through integrated family development programs.

Currently the organization works in Yeka Sub City, woreda 08, with 76 women/mothers, who are selected from very poor households for socio-economic empowerment and supporting 135 needy school children by providing school materials and tutorial class which focused on English and Mathematics.

The ongoing activities that focus on: women economic empowerment, school children support and preventive health care brought a visible improvement in the lives of orphan children and single mothers.

What we did so far?

Under Economic Empowerment

• The women are able to discussing  every weekly for one hour on their problem and important issues

• They saved money on weekly basis in order to engage in income generating activities by using it as startup capital, so as to improve the family income and life.

• The groups started giving loans for their members so that some members started small business by using the money; others use the loan to improve their existing business.  

• The organization also provided short training on self-help group concept, group management, record keeping, and how to start small business.

• Learning and discussing of the family need and related intervention on the family level done

Activities performed in this quarter under Economic Empowerment

• Objective: Assisted mothers to engage in income generating activities and to earn income to cover cost of their family’s basic needs.

In this quarter the ongoing activities under the economic empowerment division keeps going by focusing on the socio economic of the mothers/women. On this moment we are just working with 67 mothers under Economic Empowerment by facilitating weekly meetings in order for them: to discuss on their important issues, to save money and to teach them on important topics by an invited guest. It is to bring change in the mothers and on their families’ life, by assisting the women to engage in income generating activity so as to improve the family’s income. In the last three months, the project could facilitate to have 48 meetings for the women, within four self-help groups/SHG (4 group, one group contained 15-20 women) for a total of 67 women, by using Self help group approach as a women empowerment model.

Dear,

Till now Yengat Birhan Charity organization managed its activities almost all by par timer and volunteers from all professions and the organization did not have any foreign donation, but only supported by few concerned individuals just like you. Therefore, in order to continue its support and to expand its reach, the organization needs you to share our vision for others to support us in-kind, professional contribution and in cash. Our organization is ready and willing to work jointly with other organizations and individuals.

Attached please find our Brochure, to share for others

With best Regards!

Meseret Tesfaye

Project leader of Yengat Birhan Charity