Raising income for 70 single Mom's living in slum

Dear all respected partner,
We are very grateful for your contribution to change others life. Without your support we couldn’t get an opportunity of changing women’s life
It is the quarterly report from January – March 2020, on raising income for 70 single mom’s living in slum.
Short description of the implementing organization:

Yengat Birhan is an indigenous humanitarian organization established by a volunteer health professional who envisioned bringing a long lasting change in the living standard of disadvantageous families especially headed by women with children through improving the socio-economic status situation and thereby building their self-esteem. The founder family has a history of supporting disadvantaged children and their family for over six years by sharing their own financial and material resources plus the rich experience in humanitarian service. Since September 2014, the founder approaches individuals who share her vision and able to get financial, material and technical support and continued operating in collaboration with Yeka Sub-city Woreda 08 community and local administration office.
Yengat Birhan is evolved based on the rapid situation assessment made in 2013, following the continuous demand. Both the rapid assessment and the founder observation revels that how a little support from a single family could change the condition of households through small business activity that encourages extending the support in a more structured and organized way. As a result, the organization is formally established, elects the board of directors. In June 2016, Yengat Birhan registered formally as a resident charity with registration number 3645 and re-registerd with new proclamation on May24, 2019, with the mission to empower poor and disadvantaged individuals, family and communities, by helping to actualizing their latent potential through a holistic and integrated development program.
Vision: Yengat Birhan Charity Organization aspires to see society enjoying healthy life.

Mission: Yengat Birhan Charity Organization working towards ensuring healthy family and community through supporting and encouraging peoples to know and release their potential in the integrated programs.
Objective: 1. Assisted mothers to engage in income generating activities and to earn income to cover cost of their family’s basic needs
Goal
The overall goal is to contribute for changing the living standard of marginalized and disadvantageous family especially headed by women with children and child headed family (Orphan) through building their capacity and self-esteem in a continuous improvement of life.
Currently the organization works in Yeka Sub City, woreda 08, with 70 very poor households on order to help to start and improve their own income generating activities.
Activities performed in this quarter are:
The women able to discuss on the weekly meeting for one hour on their problem and its solutions
Perform weekly saving that help to engage and to improve in income generating activities by using it as startup capital, so as to improve the family income and life.
The groups member improved their businesses by taking loans and others start new businesses
The ongoing activities under the economic empowerment division in this quarter going good. It was to make changes in the mothers and on their family’s life by assisting the women to save money on weekly bases so as to engage in income generating activity, to increase the family income. We also created opportunity to them to discuss on their problem and to find solution by their own on weekly basis. For the last three months, from January to March 2020, the project facilitate to have 40 weekly meetings for the four self-help groups/SHG (4 group, one group contained 13-17 women).
All the four group called: Tesfa Lenge, Yenge Fery, Edget Lefray, and Edget Behbret saved on their weekly meeting from 5-10 birr in order to start or improved their business. Together with Yengat Birhan donated birr for the 4 groups, in this quarter they have a total of birr100,000.00 it helps to initiate them to engage in businesses activities and to improve their small businesses. Many mothers’ improves their business by taking loan from the group capital.

A very small support which we gave to the mothers to engaged in income generating actvities help the life of the family to live better. Therefor we encourage you to support us conuntinualy to do more to improve the activities of income geneating activities to bring more changt on others life.
With best Regards!
Meseret Tesfaye
Project leader of Yengat Birhan Charity Organization

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