Save the Children United States in Ethiopia

 

Save the Children Federation, Inc. is a leading international, non-profit, child focused organisation working in over 40 countries worldwide, The Agency's mission is to make lasting, positive change in the lives of children in need. Founded in the United States in 1932, Save the Children US provides community development, emergency relief, and transition assistance to millions in need around the globe.We envision a future where children, their families and communities realize social equity and dignity; have access to basic physical, emotional and development needs; and are protected from the vagaries of natural and man-made disasters. The following strategic objectives provide a framework for the preparation of detailed program plans:
  • Increased access to higher quality basic education.
  • Improved health status of children and their families.
  • Enhanced food and economic security, and mitigation of man made/natural crises.
  • Reduced impact of HIV/AIDS and STDs among children and their families. 
Save the Children US's Ethiopia field office supports programmes in seven sites across four regions of the country, as well as in neighbouring Somaliland and Djibouti. The EFO's fiscal year 2004 budget of about $25 million supports more than 400 staff working on 16 grants and other programs. As reflected in our strategic objectives mentioned above, the EFO's areas of focus are: Health, particularly of women, children and adolescents; Education, focusing on especially hard-to-reach and marginalized groups such as pastoralists, refugees, and girls; HIV/AIDS, with a focus on orphans and vulnerable children and the transportation corridor between Addis Ababa and Djibouti; and Food Economic Security, essential in a country where about five million people are chronically food insecure, and where in 2003 about 14 million people were in need of emergency food distribution. We provide some details of interventions in each of these areas below.Save the Children US began working in Ethiopia during the famine of 1984 (Save the Children Denmark, Norway, Sweden and UK also operate in Ethiopia, and we collaborate with them; SC Canada and Finland also have small presences). Today, our programs are estimated to reach more than two million children and adults in Ethiopia, Somaliland and Djibouti. In Ethiopia, Save the Children works in the urban centres of Addis Ababa, Nazareth and Dire Dawa as well as in the rural areas of Dollo, Gode, Hargelle, Negelle, and Woliso in Oromiya and Somali Regions. Our Emergency Health and Nutrition Program has significantly increased our activities in rural areas of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Regional State (SNNPRS). SC US is considered a pioneer in innovative cross-border programming in the region and is currently working with transportation and sex workers along the Ethiopia-Djibouti trade corridor, pastoralists along the Somali-Kenyan-Ethiopia Southern-tier border, as well as with refugees and returnees in the Refugee and Resettlement Camps along the Somaliland-Ethiopia frontier.Save the Children US have the following projects:  
  • Every Mother Every Child - Development
  • Child Survival 17 (CS 17)
  • Saving Newborn Lives (SNL)
  • Orphans and Vulnerable Children Affected by HIV AIDS
  • HIV/AIDS High Risk Corridor Initiative (HRCI)
  • Supporting Communities through Partnerships for Education (BESO-SCOPE)
  • Partners for Innovations in Education (PIE)
  • DA/DAP Pastoralist Livelihood Initiative (PLI)
  • Southern Tier Initiative (STI) - Livelihood Enhancement for Agro-Pastoralists and Pastoralists (LEAP)
  • Children in Emergencies and Crisis - Humanitarian Response
  • Protection and Support of Refugee Children at Risk Community-based Schools and School Health and Nutrition