Plan Ethiopia: what we do

Plan Ethiopia’s work to break the cycle of poverty covers the following areas:

• child survival and development
• quality education
• food security and nutrition
• child participation and protection
• HIV and AIDS.

We work to improve the health of communities by implementing programmes to tackle childhood illnesses and improve safe motherhood services.

Water, sanitation and hygiene is another core part of our work - more than 250,000 children die every year in Ethiopia due to unsafe water. We implement projects to construct water supply schemes, train communities in sanitation and hygiene education, as well as support the construction of latrines.

We also work to strengthen community based organisations, government and local non-government organisations to help them participate effectively in health development issues.

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Plan Ethiopia

Plan first started working in Ethiopia in November 1974, helping poor children gain wider access to health, education, protection and participation in the districts of Lalibela and Arba Minch. Having closed in 1977, Plan resumed operations in Ethiopia in October 1994. Since then Plan has maintained a consistent presence in the country.

As a child-centred community development and humanitarian organisation, Plan works extensively at the grassroots level to promote the healthy development of all children.

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Playing hard and dreaming big in Ethiopia

5-year-old Hennock wants to be a pilot when he grows up. “I want to go anywhere I like,” he said. “I want to take my friends to the countryside!”

It’s an ambitious goal for a little boy who lives in one of the poorest countries in the world. Ethiopia is a country where 36 million people are struggling to survive, and a place where most children are denied their right to participate in school. Instead, they spend their time fetching water, tending to crops or caring for their siblings at home.

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Dreaming big in Ethiopia: Meet 9-year-old Bezawit

Every child should have the right to dream, like 9-year-old Bezawit. She dreams of going to school and attending class with students every day. But Bezawit learned early that not all dreams are meant to come true.

When Plan’s field workers met Bezawit, she was living in a slum on the edge of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She lived there in a tiny shack with her mother and two sisters. Inside her home, there was no running water or furniture, just cardboard strewn across the dirt floor.

Much worse, there wasn’t a single flushing toilet in her entire community. As a result, disease was widespread and poor health all too common.

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Let It Bee

Beekeeping Creates Buzz for Ethiopian Honey Farmers

Four Hundred and thirty-five miles north of Addis Ababa, the route climbs into a harsh, mountainous landscape where ancient rock-hewn churches appear out of nowhere. This area is known as Lallibela.

Some of Ethiopia’s best honey producers can be found in Lallibela where high-altitude bees whip up a prized white honey that can only be made from the flowers which blossom on this region’s most vertiginous peaks. The bees and their keepers are part of an ancient honey-making tradition that dates back to medieval times.

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