This project aims to provide support and training, and work with local schools, local government and community leaders to make education accessible and adapted to children facing geographical, linguistic and physical barriers to attendance, including local children living with disability.
A collection of interviews with some of the people involved in our project to improve women and girls’ health and wellbeing by tackling harmful traditional practices in Malga, Ethiopia.
This project set out to achieve a shift in behaviour and attitudes through interconnected community interventions to reduce the prevalence of harmful traditional practices affecting women and girls.
Meet Abera, a 45 year old religious and community leader who had no knowledge about harmful traditional practices like FGM, but now works for their eradication.
Senior officials at Manicho Health Centre are pleased that DDP and BL have intervened to address the prevalence of harmful practices in Malga.
One of many Community Conversations across Malga District, changing public attitudes towards harmful practices.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, when restrictions on travel and gatherings were in place and schools were closed, our partners at Berhan Lehetsanat kept the momentum of the Improving Women and Girls’ Health project going through FM radio broadcasts in the Sidamic language – reaching people in neighbouring areas as well as in Malga woreda. Below […]
(2019) Yeamlak is 8 years old and deaf. Bisrat, her father, travels 20km to school with her by bus every day and stays until school is over. The school operates a shift system to cater for over 4,000 children and is the first school in Adama to have special needs education and teachers, supplemented by […]
DDIA is a Deaf-led Ethiopian NGO that aims to improve the lives of young deaf people through education, training, information, awareness, Sign Language and support.
Berhan Lehetsanat (‘Light for Children’) is an Ethiopian NGO based in Addis Ababa,. Their work is primarily with disabled children and focuses on education, health and livelihoods using a community-based development approach.