Ethiopia

2000
Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Africa, after Nigeria, with more than 110 million inhabitants and an area of more than one million km2. With a low HDI of 0.448, Ethiopia ranks 173rd and remains one of the poorest countries in the world. It has a predominantly agricultural economy, weakened by droughts, food shortages and political conflicts, but is now moving towards an industrial and export economy. Since the 2000s, its GDP growth has been one of the highest in the world at around 10% per year (10.9% in 2017). This has enabled a large proportion of the population to escape extreme poverty, from 55.5% of the population in 1999 to 26.7% in 2016. In 2007, following a trip to Ethiopia by HSH Prince Albert II, the Debreberhan and Omorate projects were born, supervised by the Sisters of Divine Providence. MAP financed the construction of the “Princess Grace” nursery and primary school for 200 children, a refectory and kitchen for the Debreberhan school, and the drilling of a well in Omorate. In 2009, in Omorate, with support from the Monegasque Directorate for International Cooperation and UNOCHA, MAP completed a subsurface dam upstream from Lake Turkana. Since 2007, MAP’s assistance and presence has continued with support to the nutrition department of the Mendida clinic, the construction of classrooms in Aleltu and the funding of the Trampled Rose programme since 2014 to prevent early marriages and provide education for 130 girls.
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Mission

Regular visits by Ms. Loretta Cointe, project manager at Aleltu. Field mission by Ms Brunella Pastorelli and Mr Ryter in May 2023 to Addis Ababa, Debre Berhan, Ankober and Aliyu Amba.

Supporting the education of 140 Ethiopian girls

MAP has been funding programmes to support Ethiopian girls run by the Trampled Rose Association since 2014. In rural areas of the country, girls lack access to education and are prone to early marriage. This not only reduces the chances of success, but also perpetuates the cycle of poverty for the family and the whole community. The overall programme aims to ensure that girls attend school, avoid early marriages and thus prevent obstetric fistula, a real scourge in the region.
Through this project, beneficiaries receive direct assistance covering one or more of the following items, depending on individual needs: housing, food, school uniform, school supplies, primary health needs (including supplies for menstrual care).

Objectives

Ensure the schooling of 140 young girls, to prevent early marriage and childbirth, the main cause of obstetric fistula.

Beneficiaries

  • 130 young girls
  • Their families

Activities carried out

  • Direct economic assistance in the form of monthly transfers to the account of each beneficiary
  • Participation in school fees to enable them to receive a quality education
  • Establishment of a complete sponsorship for 10 girls from very poor villages
  • Dissemination of information and awareness raising to the wider community on the risk of forced marriages and obstetric fistula

Recent funding

  • Since 2018: 62.080 €
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Ensuring the smooth running of Aleltu Schools
  • Aleltu
  • Education
  • 01/01/2022
  • 14,277
Aleltu is a village located 55 km north of Addis Ababa on the national road, in a region that lives mainly from agriculture and livestock. Its primary school is the only one in the area, and serves all the surrounding villages. The number of pupils continues to increase year after year, with over 900 children in 2022. In 2013, MAP financed the construction of a block for the Aleltu primary school with 4 classrooms. The following year, a second block of 4 classrooms was built, as well as two offices for the teachers. In 2016, MAP also contributed to the construction of a kindergarten, and since then has been providing these schools with school equipment or furniture every year, depending on the needs on site.

Objectives

To ensure the proper functioning and meet the needs of the schools.

Beneficiaries

  • 931 pupils
  • 34 teachers
  • The educational team

Activities carried out

  • Improvement and maintenance of the existing buildings
  • Purchase of 200 desks and a copier for the classrooms
  • Supply of materials, books and textbooks
  • Construction of extracurricular structures (canteen, library)

Recent funding

  • Since 2018: €39,577
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Nutritional support for 620 students

In 2007, MAP financed the construction of an elementary school in Debre Berhan, a town some 100 km from the capital, Addis Ababa. Since then, the school has grown considerably and now welcomes 1,200 students: 580 in junior high/high school, and 620 in kindergarten/primary. Most of the pupils come from underprivileged families, who cannot afford to feed their children before school. Through this project, 620 primary school pupils receive breakfast every day, and 100 of the most disadvantaged also receive lunch. In addition to providing nutrition for pupils, this project also helps to prevent school drop-out, by encouraging parents to send their children to school and obtain a quality education.

Objectives

Ensuring nutrition and education for 620 primary school pupils

Beneficiaries

  • 620 primary and nursery pupils

Activities carried out

  • Purchase and distribution of food to 620 children before school
  • Comprehensive care for 100 pupils from disadvantaged families

Recent funding

  • Since 2023: 12.580 €
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Support for Mendida Center
  • Mendida
  • Health
  • 01/06/2023
  • 6,978

Since 2007, MAP has been running the dispensary in Mendida, a village 130 km from the capital, in the Oromiya region. Every day, the dispensary welcomes the most vulnerable families in the village and offers medical care to around 100 malnourished women, children and babies. During the first wave of Covid-19, the dispensary team was responsible for delivering meals, food baskets and medicines to families, to avoid any risk of the virus spreading.

Following a field mission in May 2023, an additional classroom at the Mendida elementary school, located within the center’s grounds, is being built to accommodate an additional 40 pupils, for a total of 288 students.

Objectives

Ensuring the running of the Mendida Center

Beneficiaries

  • 70 women, babies and children
  • 288 primary school pupils

Activities carried out

  • Distribution of food and medicine to 70 most vulnerable families
  • Provision of prenatal, delivery and postnatal care, vaccinations
  • Monitoring of children attending nursery school and their mothers
  • Construction of an additional classroom for 40 pupils at the elementary school

Recent funding

  • Since 2018: 24.678 €
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