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Ethiopia: programs & priorities

ChildFund Australia's affiliate organisation in Ethiopia assists over 280,000 children and families in 34 urban and rural communities.

In addition to ChildFund in Ethiopia's health, nutrition, sanitation, micro-enterprise, education and early childhood development programs, ChildFund is implementing a number of programs to improve family incomes, with farmers being trained on modern agricultural production, including bee keeping, sheep and goat breeding and vegetable production.

Due to the regular occurrence of drought, ChildFund in Ethiopia provides emergency assistance to children, including supplementary feeding, restocking livestock in agricultural communities, and implementing water catchment systems, to improve crop yields.

Development in progress

In the regions of Wonago and Siraro, ChildFund in Ethiopia is in the process of building two new schools and bringing hope to the children of Ethiopia. ChildFund will expand its Child Education Projects in two districts of Ethiopia where communities are in the greatest need of help; bringing the benefits of literacy and learning to thousands of children and their families.

Each school will have four furnished classrooms, a library, teachers' resource centre, toilet facilities and a ramp for disabled access. The schools will harvest rainwater during the wet months through roof catchment systems, and the schoolyard will include a substantial vegetable garden to teach the children modern farming techniques and supplement children's diets.

ChildFund in Ethiopia is also working with local community leaders to highlight the importance of women's education, and the enrolment of girls at the new primary schools is now on the increase.