Raising income for 70 single Mom's living in slum

May, 2024

This is project report on raising income for 71 single mom’s living in slum area of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

 Report period from January –April, 2024

Introduction

 Dear as you know, Yengat Birhan Charity organization is a local non-governmental and non-profit organization that works on women Economics empowerment and health since 2016,

 Here under is some of our performed activities on this reporting period.

As we reported before, the organization was working in assisting 71 very poor women to engage in an income generating activities. 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, to help them to overcome the struggling life and to support them sending their children to school in a sustainable way.

The IGA women’s get together every week and the other every fifteen days, to discuss their progress, saving, and loan repayment. IGA Women's Passbook has printed; the passbook was prepared by sharing the cost both YBCO and the women. The group contributed 25% in birr 30 each women and the organization 75% in generally covered 1425 birr to printed passbook.

In order to make the work of the women effective and improve, an assessment was made for three different days to find out the situation of each of the women, and to identify the women who need training to bring about change according to their abilities, for whom need employed and also for whom need additional financial supports. We are working to do what is needed based on the assessment we did.

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 71 women with in five groups. One group contains in average 15 to 20 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 10 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 contents what, the time when, and the way how to use the social media and technologies to control their children. They had Habeshas bread with half litter of water as refreshment.
• Moms of the students’ parents were discussed on why they couldn’t pay back the money they borrowed, the economic inflation which affected their daily life and their business and also why they couldn’t came the discussion time of the team. They had Habeshas bread with coffee and tea for refreshment. They discussed freely about a lots of things and reasons finally they were appreciated the organization for the prepared discussion time to get the solution.
• 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 specially now is more difficult for them.
• Due to the ongoing national development, something is happening that disturbs their working and living conditions that is the place where our women are located is where people are raised for development which has made their situation and their roots difficult. Some are up and away, while others are waiting. It will be a challenge for them to find a suitable environment and for conditioning their work.

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