Raising income for 70 single Mom's living in slum

September 29, 2022

This is the quarterly report on raising income for 70 single mom’s living in slum area of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Report period from June to August, 2022

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Introduction
As you know Yenegat Birhan Charity organization is an indigenous humanitarian organization that works on the very poor children and women. The activities includes: child education, women empowerment and health since 2016. The main support areas includes supporting women in income generating activates, creating awareness on some important social political issues and providing school materials with tutorial class along with snack for school children in order to perform better additionally creating awareness on health related issues on both group and help children to get health care in need of it.
For the last three months, the organization had performed different activities in assisting 76 very poor women to engage in an income generating activities including the newly added one self-help group, which contain 20 members.
By the grace of God, for the last three months we could perform the following activities:
For this quarter, on this project we kept doing all the ongoing activities to improve women’s life, our intervention brought a visible improvement in the lives of women and their children. As our main interventions focused area, income generating activities, YBCO is working to make a visible difference by way of introducing a sustainable community owned projects through building self-esteem and strong partnership to its stakeholders.

We were keeping doing the following activities in this quarter in the women project
By using Self-help group /SHG approach as a women empowerment model. We facilitated and lead the following activities with 76 women with in five groups. One group contains in average 13 to 17 members. In all their discussion, Yengat Birhan community facilitator was there to help them in their challenges.
We could perform the following activity for this quarter under women project:
• Provide training on basic business skill training that helps them to start and to improve their businesses.
• Discussed on their varies problems and issue on weekly basses for one hour in their villages
• Saved money from Birr 5 to 20 on weekly basis in order to engage/improves in income generating activities, so as to improve the family life.
• Some women starting new small business and others improving their business by using their group money, by taking loan from their capital.
• Learning and discussing of the family need and related intervention is continuing, In the discussion, the project team is learned specific family need and further discuss the type of future intervention, how it will be implemented and expected role and responsibilities.
• Till now all the five groups saved a total ETB of 175, 262.00 in their group bank account in order to use the money for start\upgrade their business and changed their family life.
As we all know, it is a cross cutting issue to improve the family life by helping the women to start their own businesses/income generating activities with equipping the skill and finance. During these three months, out of 76 mothers of both group, one school child mothers, have got special food items support to feed their children because she couldn’t feed them due to the current market situation.
There are many more mothers who are struggling daily to raise their children and sending to school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Keep sharing Yengat Birhan for others so that we can involve more in changing mother life.
We want to thank you since your support made a difference in the work we do.
Without you it is impossible to do what we accomplished.

With regard
Meseret Tesfaye, Project Leader
Yengat Birhan Charity Organization