Raising income for 70 single Mom's living in slum

                                                                                                                      September 24, 2023

This is project report on raising income for 76 single mom’s living in slum area of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Report period from May –August, 2023

Introduction

Yenegat Birhan Charity organization is an indigenous humanitarian organization that works on women empowerment, child education, and health since 2016. It is a report in one of the projects that supporting women in income generating activates and creating awareness on some important social issues. The organization providing school materials and tutorial class with snack for school children in order for them to perform better at school and creating awareness on health-related issues and cover health care cost for those who are in need of it.

On this quarter, the organization was working in assisting 76 very poor women to engage in an income generating activities. We were able to identify 20 women’s who needed training for their business after completing the form that assessing their status, they were providing a five full day Basic Businesses Skill Training in order to improve their income and business.

The main support areas in the project are supporting women to engaged in income generating activities and to create awareness on some important social issues and to support them sending their children to school in a sustainable way.

As our main interventions focused area, income generating activities, though 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, lack of working places for the women’s business is making it difficult for them to improve their income still.

We assisted all 76 women in their respected groups by providing training and by providing startup capital which was Birr 6000/mom’s.  Both the training and the start-up donation help them to start the business.                                                       

The following activities were accomplished in this quarter in the women project

We were keeping to follow the moms in their Self-help group /SHG approach as a women empowerment model. The following activities are the performance of 76 women with in five groups. One group contains in average 13 to 17 members. In all their discussion, Yengat Birhan community facilitator is there to help them in their challenges.

We could perform the following activity for this quarter under this project:  

• Keep 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 in income generating activities, so as to improve the family life.
• Women starting small business and others improving their business by using their group money, 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.
• The five groups saved money regularly and that helps to use for improving income generating activities, the women are using the savings to start\upgrade their business and changing their family life.   
•  Moms of the students’ parents were given health education regarding the definition, risk factor, symptoms, complication and preventive measures of diabetes. They had Habeshas bread with coffee and tea as refreshment.
• Moms of the students’ parents were given child protection and parenting training. They had Habeshas bread with coffee and tea for refreshment. They took lots of lessons and were appreciative.     

There are many more mothers who are struggling to raise their children and sending to school in the slum areas of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Keep sharing Yengat Birhan for others so that we can involve more in changing others school children life. 

With regard

Thank you again!

Meseret Tesfaye,

Yengat Birhan Charity Organization