Raising income for 70 single Mom's living in slum

                                                                                                                                                     September, 2024

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

 Report period from May –August, 2024

 Introduction

Yengat Birhan Charity organization is a local non-governmental and non-profit organization that works on women children education, Women Economics empowerment and Health since 2016,

 Here under is some of our update, in which activities performed on this reporting period.

The organization was working in assisting 71 very disadvantages women to engage in an income generating activities. One of the main support areas in our 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 some groups in every other fifteen days, to discuss their progress, saving, and loan repayment and other social issues too.

In order to make the work of the women effective and improve, we made an assessment for three different days in order to find out the situation of each of the women who engaged in IGA, 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. Based on the assessment we made one mom went to vocational training, almost on final Stape for graduation.

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:   

• We Keep the discussion of women IGA groups on their varies problems and issue on weekly basses in the one hour meeting 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.   
•  The family of the students were given health education on the topic hypertension and diabetics and they had Habeshas bread with tea/coffee as refreshment.
• We provided training for about 18 moms on life skill and business, we also provided money for them from birr six thousand to fifteen thousand according with their business plan in order to sustain their income generating activities. On the other hand, we could provide vocational training for one mom as her interest, they were happy because the training and the money helped them to generate income for this challenging time.  The economic inflation makes most of mom’s business affected, including their daily life. 
• 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 city development activities, some of our mom’s business disturbed and the living conditions is affected. There are many more mothers who are struggling to raise their children and sending to school in the slum areas of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Please keep sharing Yengat Birhan charity work for others so that we can change the life of moer moms and school children life. 

With regard

Thank you again!

Meseret Tesfaye,

Yengat Birhan Charity Organization