Location: Lemo District

Project 1: Shurmo Education and Livelihood Development (SELD)

Project 2: Improving Maternal and Infant Outcomes in Remote Lemo Woreda

Partner: Bole Bible Baptist Church (BBBC)

Agriculture is key in Ethiopia, employing around 80% of the population, contributing 47% to the national income and accounting for roughly 90% of exports. According to officials, about 56% of Lemo’s rural areas do not have primary schools within villages. Lemo is one of the most densely populated weredas of the region, with rapidly increasing population.

Project One: Shurmo Education and Livelihood Development (SELD)

Goal of the Project

SELD is funded by ChildLink supporters, SHE supporters and an ANCP (Australian and Nonprofit Cooperating Program) grant through DFAT (Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade). This project began in 2012 in partnership with BBBC across three kebeles.

Phase 1 was designed to get vulnerable children to school and healthy, while laying a foundation of good development awareness. The focus will shift to economically empowering households to enable them to be self-sustainable.

Phase II Shurmo Education and Livelihood Development Project will address the issues on food insecurity and income generation.

Increase income of farming households, widowed mothers and Self-Help Groups.

Progress Update (from July’21 until June’22)

To help vulnerable children attend school and improve food security for farming households, donate today.

Project Two: Improving Maternal and Infant Outcomes in Remote Lemo Woreda

Goal of the Project

This one-year project is funded by Fullife Foundation and an ANCP (Australian and Nonprofit
Cooperating Program) grant.

The project’s objectives are to: 

  1. Deliver in a facility staffed by a skilled birth attendant,
  2. Attend more antenatal and postnatal visits at their Health Post, and
  3. Improve mother’s nutrition (in the antenatal, perinatal and postnatal period) and that of her infant.

Progress Update (from July’21 until June’22)

To help strengthen health services, encourage women to birth babies at a health post and provide a building where they can stay before their due date, donate today.