Hope for Children Organization (HFC)

About us

Hope for Children Organization (HFC) is an indigenous, non-political, non-faith-based local NGO, established in November 2000 G.C with the key objectives of sustainable and comprehensive community-based care and support for children and families affected by HIV/AIDS. HFC is registered as an Ethiopian resident charity with registration No. 0016. The organization has been successfully undertaking HIV/AIDS prevention and control programs since establishment through raising funds from multiple source: international and local as well.

Strategies:
• Provision of educational support for needy children
• Provision of psychosocial care and support to OVCs and their families,
• Operation of Group homes for OVCs
• Peer education to address sexual and reproductive health needs and rights of young community members.
• Community sensitization and entertainment to raise awareness.
• Capacity building of CBOs (Iddirs and youth clubs) and
• Promoting VSLA groups
• Promoting Income Generating Activities
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• Education: Formal education: involves provision of the following support: Uniform, school materials, School fees and tutorials . . .
• Health: HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support; Sexual and reproductive health education; Primary Health care information and services
• Psychosocial care and support: This program area mainly deals with addressing social and psychological needs of OVCs and their families.
• Livelihood: To build the livelihood of children and young people who were under HFCs custody and got beyond OVCs age limit and to motivate youth in the program. This includes: Skill training to OVCs; Support to higher education (OVCs above 18); Starting capital for IGA; Saving and credit scheme; Sewing
• Capacity building: Support to community; Capacity building of Community Based Organizations (CBO) s: like iddir; Support to Anti-AIDS clubs; Working on the improvement of citizen human and democratic rights, good governance, transparency and accountability, conflict resolution , peace building and so on; Environmental protection and greenery activities

Projects:
• Social Accountability Project: By creating closer relationships between service providers and the general public, increasing the number of responsible service providers; the changes in basic services had been brought by HFC clear and efficient project implementation system.
• Life skill project: This project initiated to capacitate OVC in life skill development to create self-awareness, self-esteem, self-sufficient and problem solving practices among OVC
• Youth Enrichment Center: A center where OVC get access to various small scale vocational skills ,trainings that includes computer, hand craft, sewing, basketry, language and drawing skills. With this project thousand of community children benefited and their educational as well as interpersonal communications developed. They got an access to different trainings and skills by professional trainers.
• Group Home Care: This is a project designed to provide care to OVC through family-like home environment of group home. We have 20 years profound experience managing group homes. As the result hundreds of OVC benefited and become productive citizen by this project. At a time we were managing 12 group homes having 120 children so far. But, due to house rent increment and other factors we reduced the group homes time to time.

Zelalem Mamuye is the Executive Director of Hope for Children Organization (HFC).

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