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_kindergarten for 600 students

_kindergarten for 600 students

milking cow for the poor of the poor family

milking cow for the poor of the poor family

harvesting potatoes

harvesting potatoes

,GSDA has invested on kitchen gardens, support with milking cows for women

,GSDA has invested on kitchen gardens, support with milking cows for women

training  for 100 the marginalized girls on Vocational technical courses

training for 100 the marginalized girls on Vocational technical courses

Skills training for underprevilaged girls at college

Skills training for underprevilaged girls at college

oxen Purchased for poor farmers

oxen Purchased for poor farmers

dry season Maize, potatoes and different crops ploughed by rural at Wando Farm by 67 household farme

dry season Maize, potatoes and different crops ploughed by rural at Wando Farm by 67 household farme

seedlings at Sorga site for afforestaion program

seedlings at Sorga site for afforestaion program

Village school teachers supported with teaching gowns

Village school teachers supported with teaching gowns

potatoes farm at Wondo site

potatoes farm at Wondo site

rural road pavment by youth group

rural road pavment by youth group

	Training given for 113 village women on micro finance, credit and saving, home care and food secur

 Training given for 113 village women on micro finance, credit and saving, home care and food secur

harvest season

harvest season

farm field preapration

farm field preapration

technic school orphan girl supported

technic school orphan girl supported

soruma primary school

soruma primary school

soruma priamry school with a teacher

soruma priamry school with a teacher

contour farming by youth at Fayinerra

contour farming by youth at Fayinerra

farmers day at Wondo

farmers day at Wondo

basket ball plot for Bekumsa Biya high school

basket ball plot for Bekumsa Biya high school

underprevilaged  women supported by miiiking cows

underprevilaged women supported by miiiking cows

Biology laboratory building at Bekumsa Biya high school

Biology laboratory building at Bekumsa Biya high school

donated cow for a family

donated cow for a family

family based simple toilet built to avild open defocation

family based simple toilet built to avild open defocation

dr. ulrike and her good foster parents supported girls learn to earn

dr. ulrike and her good foster parents supported girls learn to earn

planning green with farm

planning green with farm

farmers donated trees and motivating them to plant anywhere and care

farmers donated trees and motivating them to plant anywhere and care

village school supported with a national  standard level

village school supported with a national standard level

rural  absed schools rennovated with simple construction materials as a means of commuinty particpat

rural absed schools rennovated with simple construction materials as a means of commuinty particpat

garuma Social Development Assoction in aprtnership with the uinveristy and the community building sh

garuma Social Development Assoction in aprtnership with the uinveristy and the community building sh

village poor families donated with pregnant cows to feed thier children with milk

village poor families donated with pregnant cows to feed thier children with milk

girls supported are given lap tops in the midddle of thier courses

girls supported are given lap tops in the midddle of thier courses

girls supported under graduation establsihed own buisness to generate income

girls supported under graduation establsihed own buisness to generate income

famers supported to prodcue vwegtables

famers supported to prodcue vwegtables

village school supported with a national  standard level

village school supported with a national standard level

eye treatemnt by Swiss doctors supported by Blindenhilfe Aethiopien

eye treatemnt by Swiss doctors supported by Blindenhilfe Aethiopien

school pit latrine built for male stuents

school pit latrine built for male stuents

kitchen garden where over 40 households are involved to increase family nutrition

kitchen garden where over 40 households are involved to increase family nutrition

happy children

happy children

locally built irrigation canal made by famers

locally built irrigation canal made by famers

local bridge cheaper , quicker , commuinty early solution

local bridge cheaper , quicker , commuinty early solution

children lined up for feeding at school complex

children lined up for feeding at school complex

swiss doctors supporting poor patient at no cost with operation and medication

swiss doctors supporting poor patient at no cost with operation and medication

school libarry supported by room, books and required materials

school libarry supported by room, books and required materials

farmers donated trees and motivating them to plant anywhere and care

farmers donated trees and motivating them to plant anywhere and care

comunities of Guto Gida Distrct planting trees

comunities of Guto Gida Distrct planting trees

land maintenance

land maintenance

partners witnessing thier support reached the actual benificieries

partners witnessing thier support reached the actual benificieries

feelings of women supported with hsoues, cows, plants , seed and trainings

feelings of women supported with hsoues, cows, plants , seed and trainings

math enhancment program

math enhancment program

girls supported to work on the pblic toilets and shower place built by GSDA in the town

girls supported to work on the pblic toilets and shower place built by GSDA in the town

children given clothes

children given clothes

commuinty elder blessing the eye doctors for thier kindness and support to heal the needy

commuinty elder blessing the eye doctors for thier kindness and support to heal the needy

given a cow

given a cow

students donated with toys

students donated with toys

top three students for math club

top three students for math club

equipped with science tools

equipped with science tools

open air training

open air training

school rennovation scheme

school rennovation scheme

receiving teaching aid to develop sc20170531_093511

receiving teaching aid to develop sc20170531_093511

Village women training on home econo

Village women training on home econo

Giving a caw is assuring hope, calf

Giving a caw is assuring hope, calf

bulid houses

bulid houses

beehives

beehives

Graduate class of 2018

Graduate class of 2018

schools dry latrine for both girls a

schools dry latrine for both girls a

poor families model village hosues w

poor families model village hosues w

math enhancment program

math enhancment program

kitchen garden at village level

kitchen garden at village level

toilet and shower places for girls t

toilet and shower places for girls t

village hosue and fencing under cons

village hosue and fencing under cons

a village women after training to pr

a village women after training to pr

Diga kolobo school library

Diga kolobo school library

General Assembly meeting

General Assembly meeting

staff honored for thier services

staff honored for thier services

Best of the staff with golden cup

Best of the staff with golden cup

amputated leg with artifical foot

amputated leg with artifical foot

women for change

women for change

clean water storage

clean water storage

eye specialist from Europe sitting o

eye specialist from Europe sitting o

women after training

women after training

top three students for math club

top three students for math club

students donated with toys

students donated with toys

discussions with families & students

discussions with families & students

Quarter meeting with our sponsored g

Quarter meeting with our sponsored g

math enhancment program

math enhancment program

school rennovation scheme

school rennovation scheme

equipped with science tools

equipped with science tools

open air training at school compound

open air training at school compound

Village women training on home econo

Village women training on home econo

receiving teaching aid to develop sc

receiving teaching aid to develop sc

teaching students how to manage comp

teaching students how to manage comp

income creation for building their s

income creation for building their s

model village for community particip

model village for community particip

Students supported playing in a scho

Students supported playing in a scho

Community needs assessment, meeting

Community needs assessment, meeting

Students at Chemistry and science cl

Students at Chemistry and science cl

receiving milking cows

receiving milking cows

children are able to build their sch

children are able to build their sch

acknowledging contributions of the l

acknowledging contributions of the l

2017 General Assembly meeting to dis

2017 General Assembly meeting to dis

school hand pump

school hand pump

skill developments for girls educa

skill developments for girls educa

ladies training focused group

ladies training focused group

kids in need of support

kids in need of support

women training held for 130 ladies o

women training held for 130 ladies o

community training on progress

community training on progress

investing in children is investing i

investing in children is investing i

a new public toilet & shower

a new public toilet & shower

community training on progress

community training on progress

discussions about environment

discussions about environment

new pump , supervised

new pump , supervised

classrooms, a new block building in

classrooms, a new block building in

poor lady , big family , needy

poor lady , big family , needy

improved water scheme

improved water scheme

ladies with their donkeys

ladies with their donkeys

Road side Plantation

Road side Plantation

women supported

women supported

ladies, supported donkeys

ladies, supported donkeys

Sponsored Girls before Graduation

Sponsored Girls before Graduation

discussions with students

discussions with students

normal classroom ,

normal classroom ,

Holding Laptop

Holding Laptop

Environmental Protection

Environmental Protection

strengthening communities

strengthening communities

feeding and clothing beggers

feeding and clothing beggers

mass eye treatment campaign

mass eye treatment campaign

spring capping underway

spring capping underway

laddies , wood sellers given blanket

laddies , wood sellers given blanket

drinking water,cattle trough:

drinking water,cattle trough:

internal disease treatment training

internal disease treatment training

eye care treatment in nekemte by bli

eye care treatment in nekemte by bli

washing basin

washing basin

school gardening, coffee sedlg

school gardening, coffee sedlg

demeksa students , morning

demeksa students , morning

school hand pump

school hand pump

general assembly, meeting

general assembly, meeting

land magt, greening the land

land magt, greening the land

spring ready for capping

spring ready for capping

spring under construction

spring under construction

school renovation & trough

school renovation & trough

school building renovation

school building renovation

New Desks, happy kids after

New Desks, happy kids after

a new hand pump , 1000 stud.

a new hand pump , 1000 stud.

 
 Major actvities leading to change in the areas we are engaged to make a difference basing SDG but not limited 

 

GSDA has a vision of Ethiopia where:

 

 

"Poverty is alleviated, and the people lead a dignified life in an enabling social and natural environment."

 
"Enabling Communities to help themselves"

 

Garuma Social Development Association, GSDA, is a voluntary organization, based in the city of Nekemte (western Ethiopia), which focuses on improving family livelihood  the disadvantaged, as well as marginalized rural, communities to enhance their quality of life while at the same time enabling them achieve economic self-sufficiency.

 

The association was established in July 2012, to fighting poverty by growing the capacity of communities through individual care, family strengthening and enabling the communities to help themselves.

  • Recent Activity & News
  • Village high school gardes 9 to 12 built and equipped with laboratory equipments, computers, furnitures, books, desks, tables, shelves, cupboards, and etc 
  • kitchen garden devloped for 40 house holds with vegetables, plants, trees, and animal fattenings 
  • Over 100 poor girls are regsitered for vocational teachnical courses for 3 years term
  • Over 200 families those underprevilaged and children at school got milking cows 
  • By 2021 over 3 000 exotc and indegenoius trees were planted in the schools compound 
  • Over 20,000 patients were treated with curative and preventive priamry and secodary eye care servcies 
  • More than 50 springs and 55 hand pumps were installed /protected to give clean water access to schools in the village and communities for the population over 100,000 as supported by Rotary Clubs Osterholz and others in Germany
  • More than 20,000 patients were treated from for blinding eye disease in April 08-19,2019 in partnership with Blindehilfe Aethiopien in Davos
  • Weekly tutorial class for over 100 students struggling to cope academically in the areas of etc . going to colleges/universities in computer skill, research techniques and language
  • Public health care service innovations.............for a marginalised etc  part of the community in Nekemte towns
  • Uke and arjo gudetu towns with population over  70,000 were supplied with clean water .
  • 8 village school with students school rennovated, desks , computers , toilets supported  
  • Over 5000 were supplied with desks ,computers ,toilets, additional classrooms and books buit at 6 sites .
  •  8 families houses for poor family at diffrent site buit .
  • at 2 major sites establish kitchen garden for rural families 
  • Establish scince group for village schools and gave material support for students 
  • Live animals such us donkeys, oxen and milking cows for families supported at large including home econmics training at villages 
Future Projects

  • Enhance sanitation and Clean Water Supply Improvement

  • Empowering many unemployed youth with basic eduction leading to self employemnt and job creation 

  • Focus agriculture producing fafmers to help them prodcue more food for family consumptioon and commercial purposes 

  • Work on reducing the blinding eye disease through prevantive and curative measures. 

  • Build many hosues for the poor village people and equip it with soalr electrification, toliets, and kitchen garden 

  • Dstribute simple technologies as much as possible at rural settings 

  • Promote community Awareness Projects on Harmful traditions Environmental protection and effects of Plastic Bag Usage  and removal

  • Nekemte  town waste products Recycling and give job to the jobless

  • Produce and introduce Hollow Block Madhouses , better environment 

  • Access  micro Finance Support Scheme for Girls and Women through self governed small business holdings 

  • Mentor education for Disadvantaged Girls (Rural and Urban)

  • Incorporate elderly Support directions 

  • Introduce Solar Rural Electrification

  • Model complex  village for poor families 

  • Green  area closures 

  • Support of milking cow, farm tools, seed, fattening, sheep, goat , beehives, and home economics for families below poverty line 

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village model hosue for the underprevilaged at three sites to accomodate over 80 persons with ten houses each holding kitchen, toilets, washing basin, clean water supply pump and kitchen garden  

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introducing a kichen garden at village level for the purpose of training commuinty . with the poor rural people those who do not have houses 

children at school learning without desks . This are  the problems of many of the village schools in East Wollega zone of Oromia Regional state besides being crowded at each classroom numbering over 60 students at each class , dusty floor, etc,,,,, over 400 desks were purchased and donoated to six schools during the year 2017 

Nekmete private school supported with toys and games for kindergarten and grade one ( year one Students) as donated by the charity 

childeren and commuinty discuss teaching learning problems with the teachers and commuinty. on this special day families contributed  in cash and kind to build one block with four classroms , fencing, and public toliets construction was approved as priority in 2017 

Nekmete physcial rehabilitation center to make artifical legs for amputated people coming from the radious of over 200kms are  donated machineries, equipments, supplies , parts and basic tools with over half a million Birr in 2017 and now the capacity of the firm is increased to serve over 20 patients per day which includes physical excersise in 2017 . blindenhilfe Aethiopian made a remarkable contributions to ease the problem 

Oromai Regional State Arjo Hospital mass eye treatemnt carried out in partnership with Blindenhilfe Aethiopia based in Davos Switzeralnd for ten day  helped us to treat over 4000 paitents with medication,. surgeries and training to staffs involved. The crew was with 20 people intensively working for 12 hours daily in April 2017 

Arjo Gudetu town water storage tanker to feed 35, 000 people in the town in a remote area is a prove to clean water suppliy to battle waterborne diseases  . This was carried out in partnership with the Rotary Clubs in Germany led by Dr Ulrike Hohmann in 2017 

purcashe of donkey and milking cows for poor families supported women in the zone were given medication and trainings how to care for animals , keep kitchen garden, sanitaion and hygiene , soil conservation and food security are the major topics for 113 ladies in 2017 

an opthalmologists from Switzrland , at Arjo hospital , after treateing 4000 patients getting blessings and honor from commuinty elder the *Abba Gadda* 

children and families, visotors and leadership attending Demeksa school day and closing cermony which managed to rasie over 20,000 Birr and facilitated the comperhensive servcies leading to forwarding for juniour secondary school planning in June 2017 

Tsehai Admasu, former student of the orgaization supported to study computer now employed since 2016 and managed to support her other sisters and brother with the good income she is earning as assistant expert of offcie 

Arjo hospital eye Treatment team working hard for ten days in a remote hospital . The result was wonderful and the preventive and curative Treatment measures developed a sustainable eye care servcies as a result of on job training in April 2017 

Chaltu tolera (Sr) midwife came to Garuma Charity Office to donate cash as an apperciation and thank you . She made a wonderful speech to the General Assembly as live witness counting the good work of garuma be a model for Transformation and ways to ease commuinty problems 

math club students being equipped with basic equipments after a day workshop with thier trainer and teachers to help them be equipped for the future science garduates need in Ethiopia . This program is developed at six schools in 2017 with a total of over 200 students 

teacher teaching in a poorly constructed school, dusty floor, old black Board, but highly motivated teachers and students 

junior secondary school front apperance , 20 years old, with over 2000 students in a village of sasiga district where eduction is at the highest demand . the charity donated desks and clean water but the demand is at the highest gear in 2017 95% of the students passed to the next classroom and the big question remains unanswered for female students who can not continue learning at Nekmete which is 30kms far

feeding and clothing of  beggars on streets 

feeding and clothing of 129 street beggars in nekemte town on may 1st 2016. annually we support the people twice and train  for attitude change 

skill development for girls 

Weekly tutorial class for over 100 students struggling to cope academically in the areas of etc . going to colleges/universities in computer skill, research techniques and language. girls will be taught computer skill, language,  and science related subjects 

special support :

over 115 women in the villages were supported with training on micro finance , home economics, saving & credit,  garden for nutrition , , food security and animal care.. more than 40 poor women in the villages were supported with donkeys to loose workload on them  and generate income to maintain family livelihoods 

 

cattle trough:

spring protected to feed more than 2000 households, washing clothes.  feeding animals in the dry land areas and people of the low land areas our major beneficiaries this year in East Wollega Zone 

eye care treatment in nekemte by blindenhilfe aethiopien : more than 8,000 patients were treated, given mass eye treatment in partnership with Nekemte referral hospital for 10 days April 05- 16,2016 to 2020  and it is carried out twice a year  . this support was implemented in October - November 2016  and supported  many other activities such as the Nekmete hospital medical ward ultras sound machines, gastro scope machine, orthopedy appliances full set 

school compound 

18 schools in the area were given training on compound beautification, gardening, shading with commercial plants growing scheme development. this year  a new strategy was designed to encourage schools contribute in April fort he demands of the schools such buildings renovation, desks, fencing, plastering, teaching learning equipment . Our organisation supported over 70% in cash to supply the demand as aprested 

internal disease treatment training

medical treatment and traning at nekemte hospital by Dr, kistler from Davos, switzerland to ethiopian intenist doctors  

Hand pump at school

A Standard spring capped with an overflow of 24hrs services which also waters vegetation/crops in vegetation of the area

Garden at school yard

is  to make the learning environment attractive for the society of the area.

General assembly meeting  

General Assembly meeting Founder members Board executives and supporters over 200 persons meet annually to discuss issues, raise funds, listen to achievements and future plans and review outcomes in partnership with all stakeholders . 

Washing basin

It was built for the community to keep their sanitation like washing their clothes on the washing basin.

Desks for students at school

Desks more than 700 desks to accommodate more than 2000 kids were donated to make the teaching and learning processeffective & inviting.

School building renovation

In the last year we renovated a lot of buildings. This project was designed to facilitate /provide the best learning environment for the children of this area.

Handpump 20/04/15

Giving clean fresh water to 450 children in just one day!

On Monday we went with our two contractors to a primary/secondary school in a very desolate area North-West of Nekemte to repair and assemble a water pump for the school. After having to overcome a few obstacles(a broken pipe 35m underground), we finally got water and where thus able to supply the 450 school children with clean water.

Handpump 20/04/15

 school classroom building

classrooms, a new block building in participation with the community with the local materials available in the village

  

 

 

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  • Get involved to alleviate the social, economic, environmental, and spiritual challenges of the marginalized people who we know are in need. join  the steps to reduce the risk of poverty with whatever you can,....

  • HOW YOU CAN HELP BY MAKING A DONATION FOR A SPECIFIC PROJECT

  • Educate a disparate girls at college /university with euro 30/month for 3yrs and help them be self employed 

  • Given clean water access to village with 100 households or students at school with above a thousand 

  • A four class rooms block for 200 students with desks for children sitting on dusty floor 

  • A Donkey , shelter  and or a milking cow for a widowed women with big family

  • Micro finance - small business holding for a desperate lady govern own small business holding  .

  • focus primary health measures  give care through providing a village community sanitation and hygeine project. This will reduce the risk of blinding eye disease.

  • Improve the rural referral hospital complex which has poor infrastructure   and equipment shortages. This will support 3 million people who may come to the hospital.   

  • Reduce youth unemployment by helping them become self employed by creating their own business through training.

  • Extend services to women , children , street beggars,  and the the aged .

  • build bekumsa biya high school  at rural areas 

  • establish kitchen garden group at two sites .with 40 households 

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Success Story of Luches’ Family

Ethiopia, Oromia Regional State, East Wollega Zone, Nekemte, Negassa 02 Kebele (sub city)

Luche Wagari, 45 years old, mother of 4 girls (onemarried, one dropped school due to poverty, one at school and doing excellent work at grade 7 this year, additionally taking care of a grandchild after her daughter has divorced her alcoholic husband and currently lives at her mum’s small room as dependent)

Luche is a strong lady, hard worker with big responsibility to care for the family by bring up her children and grandchildren from the income she is generating from the sale of firewood. Her husband is a daily laborer besides looking after his cows (4 with the new cuff). The cow produces enough milk 3 liters a day. Husband is a shepherd now and Luche tells him what to do.

           They are 6 in the family. The room is 3m x 4m, dust floor, mud plastered (see to the photo), all are healthy. The baby is so unclean and stinking and my staff had long time with her in helping her (teaching) how to clean a baby in a bad condition (baby care without a diaper). All are smiling. They offered us tea outside door because we did not get enough place in the house with the family.  We heard from neighbor that, Luche run to the nearest village and bought 9 pcs of creamed bread each at Birr 15. That is the power in for sharing in love unlimited we observed.

  • They have a plan

 

  • To build a new house to accommodate her all family members.

  • Purchase a bigger filed for grazing land and production of kitchen garden. 

  • Support her daughter at least finish high school.

  • Help her divorced daughter stand on her foot and be able to care for her baby.

 

 

 Basic Informations

 

Assuming that, by holding arms with you, with the ability you have, we are trying to make change in the life’s of many disadvantaged elderly people, women/ girls/ children/ the aged/ rural people/ destitute/the poor or not having/   through education, eye care for the community, college of university education for girls from prostitution, raped, maids, returnees from middle east, poor, HIV AIDS orphaned, firewood sellers, school drop outs , village schools, clean water supply, micro finance, school buildings, irrigation, credit money, training for transformations and self employment , the aged, sanitation and hygiene measures, sport, agriculture, a forestation scheme, food security and so many other things…….

Yes!!!! You are able to make a difference. We highly appreciate your presence at our corner

We are all volunteers working towards improving the living conditions of the disadvantaged

people or the marginalised through education and basic support to help people help \

themselves.

  • visit our web site www.alemunega.wix/gsda for seeing what we have done last year

  • And write to alemunega98@gmail.com   general manager Revd. Dr. Alemu Nega, founder for

  • explanation and further query

  • If need arises Call to: ++ 251 932 50 9627 and or ++ 251 917 81 23 63

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  • Alemu Nega Family Care Association /Garuma Social Development Association

success stories 

Chaltu Tolera (former street girl and now a midwife nurse with reputation)

This girl has a touching story from her background. She was brought up in a desperate family with very poor living conditions.  She has two brothers and two sisters all above 20 years old. She is dependent on an Old father and mother above 80 years old. They all live in an old grass roofed not plastered wall & extremely old little hat. Unable to maintain family living and educate their children due to age related diseases, hunger and inability to farm.

Chaltu hence decided to do firewood selling, hair splitting and dressing, cooking for someone at lower wages and interring into the circle of prostitution to earn for living and support the big size family.  She had school education up to 11th grade. Thinking about furtherance of education needs was a troubling case which as it is difficult for her to continue her education which brought her into depression, illness and social and economical disturbances. Fortunately, she was a committed Christian in prayers continuously which encouraged her to visit Garuma Social Association office in Nekemte.  She brought her resumes, support letters from district government offices, three witnesses and luckily admitted into the program to study nursing course at the New Generation for three years.

After completion she was employed by the Oromia Regional Health Bureau to take up a job at the district in Kiramu Woreda health centre as a nurse in charge of the OB & GYN ward. She becomes popular by delivering over a thousand women in a year in the village. She was additionally trained midwife with better earning & higher post. Now she is called * a mother of many women*. She is paid good salary + top up+ over time+ position allowance which helped her to send back her brother and sister to school and she also built a new house for the family.

Chaltu attended the Garuma Social Development Association General Assembly meeting held January 14, 2017 as life witness. It was a great joy and an attendant fall on tears at the Assembly and is a big reward for the members at large. 

Thanks is due to Rotary Club Osterholz in Germany who relentlessly is supporting girls with education and we strongly value the effort leading to change in many ways ruled by Sustainable Development Goal directions of the global mission. 

  • Almaz Yadessa (a 16 years young paralyzed girl rolling on the ground                                                                                         since childhood)Three years ago her father brought her from a village & dropped her in the street of Nekemte town at night and disappeared. She found herself in tears, cried no one to listen to her, and ended up in begging to survive. She was on the street day and night without shelter. This girl has not been to school, no mother, in the village it is a curse and taboo to have such a girl. We tried to trace the whereabouts of her family all in vain. She is smiling, happy and always enjoying, everybody cares for her now.  What a wonderful mission to invest on education for the needy. Great work Rotarian

  • Firewood sellers (there are over 300 women firewood sellers around Nekemte town)                                                               GSDA has set up a strategy whereby we donate female donkey to each with tree plantation and chicken rearing support. The donkey is to help them loose workload on them, make better earning from the sell, rent donkeys when they are doing other works at home & earn same amount of money, husband could also replace them to transport the wood to town . This scheme went well and families living in poor conditions are improved very well. Family nutrition increased, garden developed, children to schools, colleges and even universities. Some mothers support their children at universities with a monthly pocket allowances for their children up to $USA20/month. The donkeys gave birth, planted over a  thousand – three thousand plants of commercial coffee, eucalyptus trees and other exotic and indigenous trees , renovated houses or built a new , dropped firewood selling and diverted their business to grain selling, learned saving at bank and iqubs, chicken, milking cows,  and other many outcomes.

  • Two towns clean water supply February – March 2017 Rotary Clubs in Germany;-This year 2016/17 we mainly focused ( Rotary club Germany) feeding the people of Uke town (population 30,000) & Arjo Gudetu town (with 35,000 people) are targeted to supply clean water in partnership with East Wollega zone Water, Mineral and Energy office. Currently the people have already started enjoying the clean water as pipelines are extended and main reservoirs are assembled to improve their health status against water borne diseases affecting the lives of many dwellers in these both towns.  On the parallel many other schools and town also got hand pumps and springs protected which will add up the number of beneficiaries to over 200,000 populations.  

           who we are?

   Garuma Social Devlopemnt association, registered Chrity in Ethiopia, bearing a licence number 2828 

what we do?

Supporting women, children, girls school drop outs, supporting with donkeys for firewood sellors, miliking cows for poor families, priamry and secondary eduction for girls leading to employemnt, clean water for rural & urban commuinties, agriculture & food security, soil conservation, irrigation, eye preventive and curative care, hospitals and linics support, schools rennovation , desks, teaching & learning aid, buildings, bridges, the aged, the blind & disabled, afforestation, enviroment, housing for the poor, honey & beekeeping, sanitation & hygeine, and many others 

Our vision 

to reach the unreached areas by expanding our current activites and reduce the risk of poverty and create a stable commuinty by the year 2030 

stories

over half a million people were directly or indirectly supported by clean water, formal & informal edcution, learning to earn, family economic & nutrition deamnd increased by basic supplies, trees planted & soil conservation secured, healthy and productive society number increased by 75% amongst the targeted population in East Wollega zone at the end of 2017 , many children/ girls  got eduction for best academic status

 

get involved

the little amount you shre in cash & kind will make lots of changes in the life's of the many disadvantaged families in need 

 

transparency 

please get our detailed informations on demand by wiriting to us at the above mentioned addresses  

international Partners

There are individuals, organizations, churches, Rotarians,national and international friends of the charity, government and beneficiaries made lots of effort to help the underprivileged people of east Wollega Zone and its surrounding district to bring change in their living conditions.

Accordingly,

  1. Long standing partnership supports

Rotary clubs Osterholz trusted longer time commitment , family Hohmann including personal support from family, RC club 1850, R. Club Bremen, Bingo group, Rev. Prof, Oddvar and his friends of Ethiopia and love for the needy girls education, Rev. Anders, Rev. Wesley Dunbar and his congregation at large , Prof Anna, One World shop, Mr. Richard King, Rev. Michael Schwekendiek and Dr. sigi, Dr. Richard Hayes & Emile,EnlanceEslepona, Family flo, Mrs. Else,and many national individuals made a remarkable efforts through cash and kind contributions to help the communities’ get clean water supply, poor families houses, school building renovation, primary & secondary schools equipment and furniture , blind students support, public toilets and shower places, milking cows& oxen for the poor,

Primary and secondary school renovation with local materials, and support of basic infrastructure development at 8 sites, Kitchen garden development at two sites for 120 farmers additionally support over 300 girls at colleges and universities Plant over 20,000 trees for environment protection, , farming tools, seeds, introduce land area closure.

  1. Blindenhilfeaethiopien , Dr Mark & Dr. Carolin

  2. DrChristain & Dr. Uwe Press & family,Dr.monaSaad -Demeler

Basic eye treatment for over 100,000 poor people since 2003 with basic primary & secondary eye care services which included free medication, operation, cash and kind, hospital equipment’s and furniture’s, vehicles, water pump for university and eye hospital, springs and hand pump clean water supply chains, public toilets and shower places, computers for school hospital endoscope machine, water reservoir, Wilo pump for university, guest house for eye clinic and equipment, running costs, bringing eye medication and operation consumables , drugs, and surgical kits and on job trainings by attending twice a year at their personal cost

Supporting sanitation and hygiene and support to underprivileged families

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