The power of women uniting for the well-being of their children is not only universal but also unstoppable.
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Close your eyes and think of a photo that puts a smile on your face.
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Ten WEEMA-supported beekeeping cooperatives are thriving in the Tembaro and Hadero-Tunto Zuria regions, thanks to the generous support from donors like you.
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Water is flowing and reaching more people who previously had no access to clean water.
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The top 8 students from Tembaro have now joined Higa Boarding School, which is one of the most competitive schools in Kembata-Tembaro.
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Increasing access to education is one of the main pillars of our community-led development.
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Did you know that 153 million people worldwide live with visual impairment due to uncorrected refractive errors? This cause of blindness can be easily corrected with glasses. When it comes to Ethiopia, refractive errors are also very common.
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Degale Public Library serves thousands of people in the community. However, some schools in Tembaro are far from the library. So to ensure these students get access to the free resources available at the library, we had to get creative. Working with the community, we came up with the “Mobile Library Service”.
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Wolayta Sodo University is one of the largest universities in the Southern region of Ethiopia. The University recently organized a disability inclusion training for their staff and administration and we were honored to be a part of it.
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Meselech Jatano has found hope again after losing her sight and being forced to drop out of school 6 years ago. Meselech was one of the top students in her 8th-grade class when she lost her sight suddenly in the middle of taking national exams.
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Three more schools in Tembaro now have brand new inclusive education resource centers available to their students.
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Young people are an important part of raising awareness on the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse as well as gender-based violence (GBV).
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Ayelech is a member of one of our self-help groups (SHG). She and her fellow members chose to name their SHG “Edget Beandinet” which means “Growth in Unity”.
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The Ethiopian Minister of Health has recently been digitizing healthcare systems, especially in rural Ethiopia. The current paper-based system can be bureaucratic and inefficient. The digital systems will ultimately increase accuracy, efficiency and reach for health care providers.
Read MoreSix WEEMA supported beekeeping cooperatives have harvested close to two thousand lbs of honey in 2021 alone.
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Tsefab, now 19 years old, credits his success in his high school career to the resources and space provided by the Degale Library.
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Bogalech has served the Tembaro District as a healthcare worker for the last 16 years. She, along with one other healthcare worker, provides frontline medical care for a community of more than 7,000 people.
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From no modern beekeeping skills, to being one of the active members of a modern beekeeping cooperative. From owning only one beehive to 20 hives. From no savings to ten birr monthly savings in his cooperative and 200 birr per month of personal savings. This is the story of Markos Lintiso and how his life changed for the better after he joined one of the beekeeping cooperatives that WEEMA supports.
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At 16 years old, Yisak Bekele came to WEEMA’s first ever school-wide eye-sight screening with high hopes. When Yisak was five years old, he contracted an illness that resulted in the loss of most of his vision.
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When you invest in our Self Help Groups, you enable women like Amarech to invest in themselves and their families.
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