Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This project will improve access to school for girls. The program focuses on girls from poor households. By helping them stay in school, you give them a chance at an education and to escape poverty.

Project Message

When I was selected to receive 170 birr per month from the Amhara Women’s Association, together with another school mate, I stopped selling nuts on the streets and concentrated on my education.
- Mulu Berhanu--Amhara region, a student who received a scholarship

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Tilahun Giday,
Country Representative, Pathfinder-Ethiopia
Bole Sub-city; Kebele 02
House No. 2446
Addis Ababa, 12655
Ethiopia
(251) –011-661-3330
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Learn more about Pathfinder International-Ethiopia and the project team.

Pathfinder International-Ethiopia's Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Income Generation for 5,000 Poor Ethiopian Women

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Ethiopia and can also be found under Women and Girls.

For more information about Ethiopia, read the Human Development Report on Ethiopia or the Wikipedia entry for Ethiopia.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 05, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 03, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

Update on Scholarship Beneficiaries

By Tilahun Giday - Pathfinder Ethiopia Country Representative, August 05, 2008 07:29 PM

Thanks to the generous donations from GlobalGiving donors, five female students – Helina Kebede, Samrawit Engdashet, Rediet Abebe, Yematawork Bezawork, and Chekolech Tegegne –have been given the opportunity to complete their secondary school education. These girls were selected because they are all either orphans, disabled, or from a single-parent family. They are also from resource-poor families that would not otherwise be able to pay the school fees for their daughters to continue attending, and the girls have proven themselves to be smart, ambitious students. Beginning in May 2008, Pathfinder’s Ethiopia Office has provided each student with a 6-month allowance of US $94.20. Pathfinder will continue making payments every 6 months to support the girls’ education for the entire three years of secondary schooling. The Addis Ababa Women’s Association has helped the scholarship recipients open bank accounts, into which Pathfinder’s payments will be made. The Addis Ababa Women’s Association is monitoring the accounts to make sure that each student is using the funds appropriately – for tuition, school supplies, housing, and/or food.

By finishing their secondary education, these girls will have more economic and educational opportunities available to them, and will avoid early marriage. In addition, because university education is paid for by the Ethiopian government, Pathfinder hopes that, by helping these girls complete secondary school, at least some of them will go on to the university and achieve even more success. Below are profiles of the young women who have been selected for Pathfinder’s scholarship assistance program, made possible by the generosity of GlobalGiving donors (Photos by Azeb Feleke).

Name: Chekolech Tegegne
Age: 14
Grade: 9
School: Karaaalo, Yeka Sub-city
Class Rank: 2nd out of 65 students
Background: Orphan, living with her caretaker.

Name: Yematawork Bezawork
Age: 18
Grade: 9
School: Dilber, Gulele Sub-city
Class Rank: 3rd out of 56 students
Background: Disabled, with no relatives; she boards with a woman she knows.

Name: Rediet Abebe
Age: 15
Grade: 9
School: Yekatit 66 Secondary School, Arada Sub-city
Class Rank: 3rd out of 57 students
Background: Comes from a very poor single-parent home; her mother works as a maid in another household.

Name: Samrawit Engdashet
Age: 13
Grade: 9
School: Millennium Secondary School, Kolfe Sub-city
Class Rank: 4th out of 45 students
Background: Orphan, living with her aunt.

Name: Helina Kebede
Age: 16
Grade: 8
School: Kolfe Junior, Kolfe Sub-city
Rank in class: 1st out of 57 students
Background: Orphan, living with her brother.
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• From left to right: Rediet Abebe, Yematawork Bezawork, Samrawit

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