Love for Children

Year of Establishment

May 1999

Year of Registration

October 1999

Type of Organization

Local Non-Governmental Organization

Branch Offices

None

Vision of the Organization

• To see Ethiopia being a place where children can grow-up in a conducive environment and with promising opportunities to become self-reliant and productive members of the society

General Objective

• To ensure the well being and promote understanding and acceptance of children's rights by building and strengthening institutions to support them
  Specific Objectives:
  

Specific Objectives

• To assist economically disadvantaged families and enable them provide their children with opportunities of self development
• To create better life and future for disadvantaged children, especially orphans and street children
• To improve existing health service institutions and environmental sanitation in the target area
• To create access for information and raise community awareness about HIV/AIDS
• To create access to formal & non-formal education
• To create employment opportunities for the youth
• To create educational & recreational opportunities for disadvantaged children
  

Strategy

• Strengthening Community Structures
• Promoting Community Participation
• HIV/AIDS and Gender mainstreaming
• Peer Education
  

Activities of the Organization

• Income Generation Project for Mothers
• HIV/AIDS Project for Street Children & Street Mothers
• Skill Training for Youth
• Women Empowerment Project
• HIV/AIDS Information Center
• Child Participation Project
• Care and Support for PLWHAS and HIV/AIDS patients
  

Publication

• Calenda
• Brochure
• Poster

Beneficiaries

• 3000 street children
• 1000 street mothers
• 20 youth
• 86 destitute mothers
• 150 children
• 60 PLWHAs & HIV/AIDS patients

Plan of Expansion

Areas of expansion

• Five Kebeles of Woreda 22 in Lideta Kefle Ketema

Address

Love for Children
Tel:251-1-52150
(09) 228836
Address: P.O. box 40646
Email:lovechildren@lycos.com
Contact Address:
Kefle Ketema :Lideta
Kebele :15
House Number :087
Contact person :Lemlem Tekuye (Executive Director)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

 

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