BETHSAIDA SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH

ASSOCIATION

Project proposal on

“Support 70 Street children and women at Hawassa, Ethiopia”

MAY 2017

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Table of Contents1. Introduction.............................................................................................................32. Project Beneficiaries...............................................................................................4

2.1. Criteria for selecting Beneficiaries..................................................................43. Project background and justification......................................................................44. General objectives of the project............................................................................6

4.1. Specific Objectives..........................................................................................65. Expected Output of the project...............................................................................66. Major Project Activities..........................................................................................67. Implementation Strategy.........................................................................................78. Role & Responsibility of Project Stakeholders......................................................89. Sustainability and phase out strategy......................................................................910. Monitoring and Evaluation................................................................................10

10.1. Monitoring of the project...........................................................................1010.2. Evaluation of the project............................................................................10

11. Indicator of the project......................................................................................1111.1. Process level indicators..............................................................................1111.2. Impact level indicators...............................................................................11

12. Project Budget...................................................................................................1213. Bethsaida Support for Children and Youth Association case studies................13

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1. Introduction

Ethiopia illustrious with diversity of culture, religion and ethnicity accommodated

historically famous resourced land for Africans, 60% of the Nations and Nationalities

settled in Southern part of the country with unified and diversified 56 Nations.

Hawassa is the capital of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region and

is a special zone of this region. The city lies on the shores of Lake Awasa in the Great

Rift Valley, on the Trans-African Highway 4 Cairo-Cape Town, with a latitude and

longitude of 7°3′N 38°28′ECoordinates: 7°3′N 38°28′E and an elevation of 1708

meters. The city is located 270 km south of Addis Ababa via Debre Zeit, 130 km east

of Sodo, 75 km north of Dilla and 1125 km north of Nairobi.

Hawassa is the center and mosaic town of the region more than 259,803peoples live

(CSA, 2007). Being a capital of the region and a tourist attraction area with desirable

environments, Hawassa has a high daily influx of people from Addis Ababa and from

surrounding areas. The city of Hawassa is divided in to 8 sub cities (32 kebeles)

namely Addis Ketema, Baheladdarash, Haykdar, Mehal, Menaheria, Misrak, Tabor

and Tula. The major economic activities of the residents of Hawassa city include petty

trade, daily labor, construction, transport, fishing around Lake Hawassa. The city is

known with high migration and children trafficking problems, currently from the total

population of the city 1030 (around 0.4) % community members are believed to live

in the street and make the street as their home. The number of people engaged in

commercial sex work a practice which makes female and male vulnerable to HIV

infection is also growing. HIV and AIDS have contributed to the increase of AIDS

orphans in the city. The studied cause for increasing of street community we had listed

based on the severity level extreme poverty, HIV/AIDS, Orphan, addiction of drugs

and peer pressures as well as high expectation are the most and assured.

To reduce the exposed problems of street children we strongly implement the project

entitled with “Support for 70 Street children & women at Hawassa, Ethiopia”.

The project specifically implemented under Hawassa city administration in selected

two sub-cities, namely, Bahladarash and Tabor sub-cities, in a total of 2 Kebele's

(lowest administrative unit in a sub-city): Harer kebele and Tillte kebele, respectively.

The two Kebeles vulnerability is high.

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2. Project Beneficiaries

The project will directly target and benefit a total of 70 (40 children 15 male 25

female and 30 women under IGA. Indirect beneficiaries will be family members of

the targeted children and women in the project area and estimated to be 240 people.

2.1.Criteria for selecting Beneficiaries

The OVC will be identified in participation with the community and concerned

government bodies. Targeted criteria will be age under 18 years, severity of the

problem, disability, not have relatives. Priority is given to the most affected victims of

malnutrition and sicknesses. The OVCs will be considered for support if they are not

supported by any other project/ organization.

3. Project background and justification

Under Hawassa city administration, one of the most migrant peoples living places,

routine causes which are exposing the children to street life are described below.

No Routine causes Percentile

1 Extreme hunger 18.778%

2 High growth rate and unplanned family planning 11.938%

3 Poor Health facility 3.588%

4 Inefficiency of basic need 23.269%

5 HIV/AIDS, TB and other STDs 12.978%

6 Divorce and family disagreement 7.598%

7 Peer pressure, high expectation and child labor

practices

16.378%

8 Bad traditional practices 1.378%

9 Others 10.095%

(Sources: - Concern for street Children association, 2013 need assessment analysis

outputs)

Bethsaida support for children and youth association (BSCYA) worked for the last ten

years with the objective to contribute for the betterment of life situations for street

children especially in the southern region of Ethiopia. It is also BSCYA's observation

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that most of the street children at Hawassa are pushed to the street because of lack of

basic needs and care and due to parental pressures to contribute to their share to the

family income. Currently, the number of children migrating from rural areas is

escalating mainly due to poverty.

From our past experience we observed that some destitute children and youths are

observed in the city working on small scale petty trading activities such as shoe

polishing or ‘listro’ (mostly males) and selling gums and soft papers. Girls and their

guardians sale local bread or ‘injera’, cooked potatoes and roasted maize. Bethsaida

Support for Children and Youth (BSCYA) is economically strengthening some of

these boys, girls and their guardians in Hawassa through materials and limited seed

money support for IGA. BSCYA is also facilitating suitable work place for the

children in collaboration with some volunteer community. This activity is to be

promoted and scaled up in view of the change it brought in attitude of self-reliance in

children and youths. However, main limiting factors are inadequate funds to address

the material and financial needs of the children and families or guardians attached to

them. Moreover, most of the boys and girls engaged in petty trading activities lack the

necessary skills and awareness in saving and money management activities. They

need also secure places to run their businesses and to keep their materials during off-

hours of business activities.

Therefore, financial and technical support is required to encourage vulnerable

children, youths and families in collaboration with the community. Skills, capital, and

equipment should be made available to establish small scale business activities.

Communities should be sensitized to facilitate safe working environment, access to

supplies and markets to vulnerable children and youths at Hawassa. Bethsaida

Support for Children and Youth (BSCY) is working with the city administration,

communities and families to confront the diverse needs of children and youths at risk

in Hawassa city.

Therefore, the current project is intended to address the problems of street children at

Hawassa mainly through rehabilitation support with strong focus on the need of the

children and supporting them in sustainable manner and system wised support, under

this psycho-social support, re-integration, supporting the family in attaching the

children and by working strongly the system of GOs structure in collaboration with

NGOs and CBOs.

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4. General objectives of the project

The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the sustainable development and

poverty reduction program of the country by imparting gradual change of attitude and

empowering of street children and their guardians through street-focused (non-shelter

based) psycho-social, educational, health, basic need services and capacity

development.

4.1.Specific Objectives

To improve health status of 40 vulnerable children via provision of food/

nutritional assistances, medical care services, clothing and health related education

by the end of the project life

To create access to education for 40 vulnerable children via provision of school

materials, uniform and related necessary materials for schooling

To improve economic situation of 30 women’s in attached to the target children

via engaging in income generation activities

5. Expected Output of the project

40 OVCs received subsistence food support for 24 months

40 OVCs have access to education (via provision of educational material)

40 OVCs received clothing and related basic materials (one time a year)

40 OVCs received medical services

30 women skill trained and engaged in productive income generating activities

6. Major Project Activities

Provision of food support for selected 40 OVCs in every monthly basis.

Provide clothing and related facilities for 40 OVCs (cloths and shoes)

carryout home visit to target OVC for monitoring and follow up of their school

attendance and performance related to schooling.

Provision of medical services for 40 children through referral linkage.

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Organize awareness creation training for 30 IGA engaged women on

HIV/AIDS, STDs, Hygiene and sanitation, family planning and reproductive

health in collaboration with health offices.

Provisions of Educational materials (pen, Exercises book, pencil, rubber,

school bag and uniform) for 40 OVCs.

Provide training for 30 women on entrepreneurship, saving, basic business &

marketing skills.

Providing seed money/startup capital for trained 30 women attached with the

OVCs.

7. Implementation Strategy

The project will be implemented in an integrated approach focusing on street children

in non-shelter based supports in the following project components.

Educational support- OVCs enrolling to schools and their material needs will be

identified based on their previous school experience or grade levels (pre-school,

primary, high school). Educational materials will be provided through monitoring

and regular follow up of their school attendance and performances in participation

with their families/guardians. Strong linkage will be created with schools and

community for the success of the program.

Medical Support- Selected OVCs will be provided medical support through

referral linkage with governmental hospitals, PLCs and NGOs. Organizing

awareness creation meetings and training for children and families on HIV/ AIDS,

STDs, Hygiene’s and sanitation, family planning in collaboration with government

sector lines, NGOs and community is the keys to sustainably realize the health

well being of beneficiaries.

Food Support- Needy families/guardians of vulnerable and at risked children will

be identified and monthly supported with foods (such as grain and edible oils) to

complement their children’s basic needs. Monitoring and regular follow up will be

made to ensure use of food supports for the intended children.

IGA Support- Skill trainings will be organized and seed money will be provided

as a subsidy for selected women’s based on their capacity and the nature of

business they are interested. Strong linkage/collaboration will be built with

business training centers and among agencies working with women under difficult

circumstances.

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8. Role & Responsibility of Project Stakeholders

For effective implementation of the project the following stakeholders will involves in

the project:-

No Name of Stakeholders Role of the stakeholders

1 Finance and Economic Development Bureau/BoFED/

Signing the project agreement Forward government policies and

regulations Mediate and provide the necessary

support if conflict arises Appraisal of the project proposal and

forward the comments on it Coordinate the charity and the

stakeholders Conduct monitoring; midterm and

terminal evaluation of the project with the concerned sub cities and line bureau and give necessary feedback on it.

Material support for the organization.

2 Hawassa city administration women, children and Youth Department /BoLSA/

Appraisal of the project proposal and forward the comments on it.

Signing the project agreement. Periodic supervision, Monitoring and

evaluation of the project performance Assist the project technically Create enabling working atmosphere Provide promising practice and

lessons learned. Shearing of resources.

3 Hawassa City Administration Participate in program planning, implementation, Monitoring and evaluation on project activities.

Participate in funding and allocating fund to participate and sustain the project.

4 Sub-city Administrations Participate in beneficiary selection and screening

Facilitate the integration of service with sub city level service

Participate in program planning, implementation, Monitoring and evaluation on project activities

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5 Regional Education and Health Bureau and offices in Hawassa city administration

Participate in program planning, implementation, Monitoring and evaluation on project activities

Assist the project technically and provide the necessary services for OVCs

6 Donors Securing the necessary fund to the project

Monitoring and evaluation of the project

Provide the necessary assistance

7 The local community and different social organization

Participate at different stages of the project

Help while selection of beneficiaries Integrate and make a referral linkage

in different support.

8 Local Private organization Contribute their own part for community development activities from the organization with kind or finance.

Follow up and get quarterly report about the progresses and performance of the organization.

Rune Ethiopian to Ethiopian support.

9 Volunteer individuals Contribute and involve supporting the community by their skill, labor, finance and materials.

Promote about the organization in the national and international wide.

9. Sustainability and phase out strategy

key issues considered among others to sustain support of the vulnerable

children is economic strenghtening of the families to enable them meet basic

needs of the children for schooling and related. In view of this project will

undertake income generation activities for mother and /or guardians of the

children during the project life.

BSCYA wills all possible effort in looking for sponsorship from institutions

and inividual to ensur long trm support for the targeted children. For this

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purpose it will share experience of similar minded organization especially

those already have good experience in child sponsorship program.

resource made available especially capital assests will remain property of the

organization for continuation of similar activities and purpose as per the

charitable organiztion rule and regulation issued by charities and societies

agency.

10. Monitoring and Evaluation

10.1. Monitoring of the project

Quarter base regular project activity follow up to ensure necessary project inputs

are supplied in required quantity and quality

Social works will conduct home visit and record feedback with regard to

schooling and other social aspects of children under the project support

quarterly review meetings will be conducted with IGA women groups to assess

the progress and challenges and to provide necessary support in areaswhere the

gap is observed

home to home visit, regular review meeting and other monitoring activities will

record and documented for further improvement and learning

There will be monthly and quarterly report for internal consumption and funding

intermediary organization, respectively.

10.2. Evaluation of the project

The project will have two valuations-midterm and final (by the end of the project life).

The outcome of the valuation will be documented for future use and can be

disseminated among the relevant project stakeholders. The purpose to have this

valuation is to access progress with respect to achieving anticipated outputs and

purpose of the project. Midterm evaluation on the other hand will have a purpose of

looking back and forth to come with the ideas that will strengthen or redirect the

project for the remaining period. All monitoring and evaluation activities will employ

participatory method and approach to ensure active participation of the project

stakeholders. This again will demonstrate that the view and decisions of the

stakeholders are given due consideration in the process.

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11. Indicator of the project

11.1. Process level indicators

# children get educational material

# children promoted to next class

# children fully attended education

# children get clothing and school uniform

# children get food support

Amount of food item issued per child

Types of food items issued during the project period

# of children get medical services

# women engaged in IGA

11.2. Impact level indicators

Health status of the children under project support

Academic achievement of the children under project support

type of effective IGA operating

Incomes accrue per women from the IGA

Capacity of the target women in running IGA

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12. Project Budget

Name of the Implementing Organization: Bethsaida Support for Children and Youth Association (BSCYA) Project location (Hawassa city, Tabor and Bahladarash sub cities and Tilte and Harer Kebeles)Total Number of Beneficiaries 70 (40 Children and 30 Women)Fiscal Year: September 2017- August 2018  

Description Total Cost in Eth Birr

Total Cost in USD

ADMIN COST EXPENSES    staff salary 60,000.00 2,640.00 staff Pension Contribution 10,800.00 475.20 Volunteers expenses 6,000.00 264.00

Sub total 76,800.00 3,379.20 OFFICE RUNNING COST AND OTHERS   - Office rent 36,000.00 1,584.00 Communication (tel. int. postal) 6,000.00 264.00 Stationery 4,800.00 211.20 Motorbike Fuel, Lubricants and mainteance 3,600.00 158.40 Monitoring and Evaluation 4,000.00 176.00 Annual Audit 5,000.00 220.00 Staff perdiem and travel cost 6,600.00 290.40

Sub total 66,000.00 2,904.00 Total admin cost (max 30%) 142,800.00 6,283.20 DIRECT PROGRAM EXPENSES   - Program staff salary and benefit 36000.00 1,584.00 Staff pension/PF 3,960.00 174.24

Sub total 39,960.00 1,758.24 PROGRAM ACTIVITY COST   - Training for Women (IGA) 5,000.00 220.00 Seed money for women IGA group 60,000.00 2,640.00 Purchase of school material (exercise books, pens,school uni-form & bags,etc 20,000.00 880.00 Health Support (sanitation materials, medical expenses) 15,000.00 660.00 Food and clothe support 192,000.00 8,448.00

Sub total 292,000.00 12,848.00 DIRECT PROGRAM TOTAL (Max 70%) 331,960.00 14,606.24 GRAND TOTAL 474,760.00 20,889.44

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13. Bethsaida Support for Children and Youth Association case studies

1. Mignot Pawlos

Mignot Pawlos is a 12 years old boy and grade six student. He lives with his 85 years old

grandmother. His father has passed away at his childhood due to HIV AIDS. His mother

also died recently after suffering from long term mental disordered and paralysis.

Fig. 1 Mignot with his grandmother Dalgite.As Mignot spoke Life was too hard for him to survive. Most of the time He had been

going to school without breakfast and inadequate exercise books and other educational

materials. BSCYA is supporting Mignot and his Grandmother since 2013 with some

nutritional, education, clothing and medical services with limited money from member

contributions.

2. Sofoniyas Mekonnen

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Sofoniyas Mekonnen is 6 years old boy and 1st grade student at Hogoba primary school at

Hawassa. He lives with his mother and younger brother. His mother Senayit is one of

PLWHIV. life was worst for her due to absolute poverty added with social discrimination

make the life of the family miserable. Eating twice a day was a miracle for them. Due to

this her health situation is at risk and Sofoniya's and his brother were also got sick

repeatedly due to lack of better nutrition.

As Senait spoke this complex life problem had forced her to try committing suicide

repeatedly. However, Bethsaida Support for children and youth association met her at this

critical situation. BSCYA is supporting Sofoniyas with some nutritional, education,

clothing and medical services. Senayit involved in income generating activity by making

and selling injera (local bread).

Fig.2 Sofoniyas with his mother Senayit

Now senayit speaks the present and the past with tears since today her resistance (RTA) is

increasing day to day and the nutritional support given to Sofoniyas is not supporting

only him but benefiting the whole family.

3. Tigist Bekele

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Tigist Bekele lives with her mother and three sisters. Her father has passed away at her

early age, following his death, absolute poverty entered to their home.

Her mother was unable to feed, send to school and cloth her daughters properly. Due to

this heavy family problem Tigist and all her sisters forced to terminate their education

and remain at home. They usually didn’t get food even some times once in a day,

Fanaye, Tigist’s mother said. It is too difficult to express the condition of poverty that was

existed at their home. It was very painful to see the children of neighbors going to school

while one self's child being at home. Generally survival was hard before the intervention

of BSCYA. Today Tigist had returned to school and attending her education diligently,

now she has no question regarding educational materials, food, cloth, school uniform, and

for medication if she get sick. Now Fanaye speaks as she is relatively feeding her

children better. Indirectly the whole family is benefited from the nutritional support given

to Tigist and life is become much well than before. Tigist’s mother on behalf of her

children provided great thanks to those who have supported her.

Fig.3 Tigist (on the left of her mother) and with two other sisters on the right

4. Sara Dawit

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Zenebech Gia is the mother of Sara Dawit and other three boys. She and one of her son

are live with HIV and started taking medicine. Zenebech remember the past life of herself

and her children as follows. I didn’t have something to feed my children. I had been

crying to God for long period of time even I decided many times to commit suicide but I

worried the future fate of my children and change my suicide idea. When things got dark

to me I got support from BSCYA for me and one of my child through our kebele (local

Government administrators). called and recruited to BSCYA project and told me as got

the chance to be supported .i never forgot the feeling I felt at that moment .

Now a thing are changed and looks new. I am participating in the income generating

activities, I make enjera and sell vegetables at the village and saving 10 birr per day as”

ekub”( it is the traditional saving ways of money).

Today my children are eat as like as my neighbor children and I will not intimidated and

worried if my children ask me food. Be cause I can provide them.

Before when my children go to neighbor to see television, they were insulted and talld to

leave the house. This is due to the infection of me and my son with HIV. But today thanks

to God and Bethsaida’s IGA program I bought television and other materials, now my

children are freely see television at their home.

Finally I like to say something to those donate us, oh! no words. What I have to say just I

can say let God bless the rest of your life.”

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Fig.4 Zenebech (at center) is the mother of Sara (on the right of her) and other boys, on the right of Sara is staff from BSCYA

5. Robel Meja

Robel Meja is 10 years old and 4th grade student he lives with his mother and sister. His

father has passed away due to HIV. Her mother lives with HIV and do not have job. She

had been leading her life with very heart breaking condition since the death of her

husband. Her children sometimes go to their neighbor to feed themselves and she has

been crying to God every day and night to change this condition. BSCYA contact her and

added her and Robel in to the project of IGA and overall support respectively.

Now she speaks as life is much better than before the nutritional support given to Robel

has been feeding the whole family and she sow evry morning confidence unlike with

fear as before. With the money given to her to involve in the income generating activities,

she is striving much to change her life. Now she is saving 300 birr per month as ‘ekub’

(traditional saving system).

Robel also benefited from the BSCYA in food, education ,cloth and medication. There

was a problem at the left eye of Robel, due to his mother financial limitations, he

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couldn’t got medical treatment but after he joined BSCYA he make surgery at the referral

hospital and the whole cost was covered by the BSCYA.

Senayit and her son Robel sent highest thanks to those donate them through BSCYA.

Fig.5 Robel with his mother and lovely sister

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