Mrs. Almaz Kebede, Founder and Board chairwomen	Mr. Yayehyirad Hailu, Founder and Executive Director

Name of Organization: Nile Children and Family Support Organization

Acronym: NCFSO

Date of Establishement (G.C): 1995

Date of Registration: 1998

Affiliation: Humanitarian

Focus of Orientation: Child,women youth and development centered organization

Administrative Status: Indigenous/Non-governmental

Primary Target Group: Children, The youth,Women, HIV infected individuals

Second Target Group: Community

Organizational Structure

Decision Making Body: General assembly, Board and Executive Committee

Contact person: Name: Mr. Yayehyirad Hailu
Position: Executive Director
Tel: 251-1-715469
E-mail: ncfsoyh@hotmail.com
Fax: 251-1-652057
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia

Mission Statement

- Reduce the socio-economic vulnerability of mothers,children,families and communities.

- Promote the equality of all human beings, irrespective of their sex, ethnicity, creed and religious denomination.

Goal

General Goal

-To promote primary health care.
- To improve the economic status of poor households.
- To improve the economic status of the community at large.

Specific Goal

-To insure the continuation of educational opportunities for school-aged children.
- To promote the rights of children.
- To assist HIV positive individuals to be come self-reliant.

Objectives

- To decrease the prevalence of STDs in the target area.
- To decrease malnutrition.
- To increase the supply of clean water.
- To expand educational opportunities to children.
- To decrease the rate of school dropouts.
- To invole women in income generating activities.
- To improve the economic status of the community.
- To reduce the vulnerablity of flood-proven houses in the target area.

Startegy

- Encouraging beneficiary community participation in development programs.
- Conduct need-based training.
- Engage in income generating activities.
-Apply systematic monitoring and evaluation.
- Ensure efficient and effective utilization of resources.
- Mobilize local resources.
- Undertake impact assessments.
- Focus on possible resource mobilization.
- Organize the community through Delta/Colta training.
-Estabish networks with CBOs, KDCs,etc.

Area of Involvement

Development

- Integrategrated urban development
- Development in child care
- Child welfare and community development
-Water aid/development
-Employment genertaion

Health

- Clinic
-Sanitaion
- Immuniztaion
-Mother and child care (Parental and/or postnatal)

Education

-Vocational education/training
-Psycho-social education
-Non-formal education

Counseling

-Educational counceling
-Vocational counseling
-Health councelin

Capacity Building

-Material assistance

Special Groups

-Street children
-Working children
- Child prostitutes
-HIV infected individuals

Intervention

Advocay

- Child right advocay

Prevention Intervention

- STD/HIV
- Child mortality

Remedial Intervention

- Health services
- Income generating schems
-Educational facilities to school children

Rehabilitative Intervention

- HIV infected individuals
- Skill training for unemployed youth
- Non-formal education

Financial Summary

Source of assistance :Both external and indigneous
Source of Income: Donation

A few Achievements

1. Credit scheme

• Helped 150 women and their families living in Bahir Dar through group-guaranteed savings and loans. At present, they are able to met the basic needs of their families.

2. Education

• Since 1998, 400 potential street children have been provided with educational materials . The once street children are now engaged in different physical and mental development activities such as sports and arts.

• The organization has given vocational skill training on tailoring and bicycle repairing for 50 unemployed youth. They have been given the required hand tools and working capital and they are now running their own business.

• The organization has also made furniture and teaching aid materials support for different elementary and Kindergarten schools in which most of our children are learning.

3. Health

• Trained 68 community health providers-including 20 trditional healers, 12 traditional birth attendants, 6 village health workers and 30 village health promoters

• The organization together with local authorities and parents of children constructed different community water points, which serves many people. In addition, three communinal latrines were constructed. The people were also educated on environmental sanitaion.

• Provided essential medicines to two health care centers serving chilldren and their parents.

4. Reunification

• 50 orphans who had been assisted in the organization were reunified with their relatives.

5. Income generation

• Three different income generation groups were established for about 90 destitute women.

• Three diseal grain mill was installed for rural women

6. Child advocacy

• A number of panel dicussion forums about child right, streetism,harmful traditional practices and environmental sanitation were conducted.

Who Supports Us

Foster Parents (Sponsors)

Child Sponsorship is our primary source of funding and creats the channels throught which individual children and sponsors develop a relationship based on mutual respect and understanding.

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Project Supporters

NILE also seeks large and small grants and donations which help aspects of individual projects not normally financed by sponsorship. Generous individuals and firms, charitable trusts and foundations, and governmental and international agencies help NILE extend and enhance the impact of its work for children.

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