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WE PREVENT VULNERABILITY OF CHILDREN, WOMEN & YOUTH!

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How we come to be.

It was established by the founder late Mrs.ALMAZ ASHEN in 1991 tosupport children abandoned by loss of their parents by fire arm explosion happened around Shegoleduring the downfall of “Derege” regime, The founder of the organization has pay due attention and become emotional at a time when children lost their parents and become abounded, and decided to take commitment for the survival of kids by her own resource in her private home and compound. The founder further expand the NGO in full recognition of the magnitude of the problem of women, children and youths in the country.

Objectives

    • Improving the life of potential street, abandoned and vulnerable children by maintaining their physical, intellectual and moral wellbeing.
    • Empowering young, girls and women by providing life skills,business, vocational skill trainings as a means of creating job opportunity
    • Contribute towards gender equity and equality;
    • Creating community based child care service through child sponsorship and Promote and provide community based support to address needs.
    • Encourage volunteerism by working with experience and trained volunteers Locally and internationally
    • Create networking and partnership among stakeholders ;

VISION

AACFSA wishes to see EthiopianChildren,Youths, womenand other venerable once free of disease, poverty and productive and self – reliant society.

Mission

Committed to the most vulnerable and disadvantaged community groups to have access to better quality life by improving access to health, education and economic empowerment.

GOAL

Build sustainable livelihoods for the poor and the disadvantaged of the targeted communities.

VALUES

  • Responsible to ensure equality for all target groups
  • Accountable for the resources at our disposal
  • Recognition of local skills and indigenousness knowledge
  • Share learning and experience with and learn from stakeholders
  • Practices equality among all members of the society and thus operates without discrimination on the basis of religion, sex, age and social status
  • Enhances mutual respect between and among stakeholders.

STRATEGY

  • Community based child care& Institutional child care
  • Women and youth empowerment through awareness creation & livelihoods
  • Focus on Community’s needs and priorities through Asset Based Community Development (Participatory) Approach.
  • Community Capacity building
  • Establish and strengthen strong Partnership and net workings with stakeholders
  • Participation of all end users of target groups and recognition of local knowledge and skills as essential drivers of innovation and positive changes in our community.
  • Learning and interactive environment among different segments of the society to improve the quality service delivery ,

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT

  • AACFSA has more than 28 years of experience working with destitute children , women and as well withgrass root community
  • 650 children served in the project while they live with their relatives/extended families. The project provides: school fee, educational materials, medical treatment, clothing, and supplementary food, counseling, psychosocial, shelter, etc.
  • 240Guardians/women have been trained on business skills and entrepreneurship and organized in Self Saving Groups and started saving after they have been given trainings.
  • Vocational skill training has been given on skills like, basic computer skill, sewing, embroidery, automotive, electricity, driving and food preparation. A total of 1,220 destitute women and youth have been benefited from the training.
  • 78 orphans and other vulnerable children are being provided institutional day care services
  • 600 orphans children had been adopted locally and abroad
  • 668 orphans and vulnerable children had been supported through sponsorship programs and provided care at kindergarten.
  • Two primary and secondary schools have been contracted in Addis and in the region with collaboration of the community.
  • 10 houses have been contracted for people with disabilities in Ambo town
  • Public library has been constructed in Ambo town
  • 200 households have been supported in hygiene and sanitation (WASH) which includes contraction of public latrine and clean water
  • School girls club has been establish focusing on better academic performance to minimize school dropout and absenteeism of girls

Target groups

  • Orphans and vulnerable children's
  • Destitute Women/widows
  • Youth
  • Community based organization's
  • Migrate and returnees
  • People with disability
  • Community in general

AACFSA Child daycare center

Tailoring training

STORY

Remedan Mohamed

Remedan is the third born child living with his three sisters and three brothers, and Leyla is the Biological mother and the only means of income for such large sized family in Gurage Zone, Kebena Woreda. She needs to travel 36 KM round trip to wolkite from her village three market days a week to bring bread for sell in her surrounding locality as an income. According to Remedan for whom we found on the street, large family size which is challenging him to have a meal a day at least, and housing that he lives in, with very old roofing and entirely hole the walling around but still very limited single room to cook, sleep and to live in was another challenge that push him out and an able to attend his schooling in his birth place.

After six month life on the street Remedan enrolled by the project and had stayed for about four months in our rehabilitation center, having the holistic approach service intervention.

As a result of the service he received in the center, Remedan decided to be back to his family and motivated to continue his school at his birth place. Due to his exit plan process we as an organization able to tress his family, we have got a chance to meet the concerned government social affairs office head and other professionals in our tracing process so that we reflect all the challenges that have Renedan and his family coming through. Because of strong reasoning & justifications we explained the officials; we come up with consensus to organize a session to mobilize resource for new and conducive house of Remedan family in their birth place. And the new housing is the exceptional support which is not included from Remedan rehabilitation budget; rather it was the community and government integrity with our initiative. By Now Remedan and his family have got 42m2 house with three rooms from the a resource mobilized @ local level, that is 27 pieces of iron sheet and nails for roofing and walling which is entirely the government support, whereas 17 iron sheets and all the woods for roofing and walling is a contribution of community including the labor. In the process of the house construction a man living in the area with carpentry skill charges Leyla only 50 percent of his expenses. Of course the doors and windows for the house were covered by AACFSA. According to Wolkite Social and labor office the cost of the house may value equivalent to 350,000.00 to 400,000.00 birr in the current price in that locality. And handover inauguration will be held in the following three weeks maximum right after plastering of the wall is over. Remedan has got a school material with school bag, both day and night wears with shoes, and three pregnant goats for rearing in kind support and cash deposit of three thousand birr from his rehabilitation grant from UDS project. Finally if you don’t mind please hesitate to join us the inauguration day of Remedan family house.

Finally it is possible to say that we as an organization are success but still the intervention keeps us with learning mentality