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Annual Report
2012

Letter from the board
2012
This year has ended on yet another high, with 120 new children and 200 new women joining our growing
projects in Addis Ababa. From its beginnings working with street children, Give A Future now touches the
lives of whole communities in the Ethiopian capital, encouraging education and growing the economy.
We now support over 30 young adults studying at universities
across the country. This is testament to our approach that
focuses on the individual needs of the children we work with.
What we call our ‘one child at a time’ policy is at the core of how
we run our projects. We support each child from the moment
they enter our care until they get a job, setting them free from
the poverty cycle.
In September we opened our third school, a secondary school
teaching students from grade 5 to 8. This is an important step in
educating the children who graduate from our primary school
– before they can move on to our scholarship programme.
200 women have signed up to our micro-finance programme.
In total, we’ve now extended loans to over 400 women. Again,
our policy of working with one family at a time means that
only one percent of these women default on their loans.
Furthermore, we estimate that each loan we extend benefits
at least five people.
We’re deeply moved by the unwavering dedication and
enthusiasm of our team on the ground, who continue to grow
our projects and add extra services every year. All of the ideas
for our projects stem from listening to the people we work
with and providing what our communities really need. This
ensures that every penny is well spent and that the results
from our schemes are tangible.
Economic development is at the heart of what we do. In the
coming year we’ll continue to work to make our projects more
sustainable and start projects that tick three important boxes:
1) Creating employment in our communities
2) Furthering economic development
3) Creating a revenue stream for Give A Future to sustain
the charity
Next year we’re launching our first export business - “Lalibella”.
It will sell home accessories made by local Ethiopian artisans
in Europe.
We’d like to give special thanks to our Ambassadors, who give
so much of their time to supporting our projects.
Carmen Borgonovo has recently come on board as our
Accessories specialist. Without her expertise and adventurous
spirit, we wouldn’t have been able to start Lalibella.
Our communication strategy is improving. Sometimes we get
so busy with the day to day running of the projects – that we
haven’t always kept everyone abreast of developments. This
will change. You - our supporters - are instrumental to what
we do and we want to show you exactly where your time and
money are going.
We must also express our deepest thanks to Barclays Bank,
who have been major supporters for several years. The team at
Barclays has consistently gone above and beyond and we can’t
thank them all enough. As Barclays doesn’t have a presence in
Ethiopia, the bank is withdrawing its support in 2013. Barclays
- we have learned so much from you that will help us run our
projects better for many years to come. We are indebted to you
for your support.
As Barclays relinquishes its funding of Give A Future - we’re
looking to fill the gap the bank has left as our main sponsor.
We’d like to appeal to all of our supporters to help us to spread
the word about the charity, to introduce us to their friends and
networks who might be interested in getting involved. This will
ensure we can continue to spend no money on fundraising,
and keep our administrative costs to a minimum. All of our
UK staff are volunteers and we use the cheapest and most
effective marketing tool available – word of mouth.
Many thanks to Phil and his team at Zest Ideas for our new
website launching in January, please visit:
www.giveafuture.org.uk
The Board of Give A Future hopes you enjoy reading about our
achievements and challenges over the past year in the coming
pages.
So many thanks to all our supporters, we couldn’t do our work
without you!
Yours sincerely,
Stephanie Ferrario, Matteo Ferrario
Amelie von Wedel, Sophie Pongracz
Stefania Calice, Alexis Calice
- The Board of Give A Future
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Overall Situation
Homes for Orphans
2012
Give A Future runs educational projects for children and young adults and economic development
projects for women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, benefiting over 5500 people.
... one child at a time. We have successfully opened our third group home this summer for our older girls.
We now run four homes that care for over 40 orphans.
We run:
• Three Homes caring for around 30 orphans
• Three schools educating over 450 children
• A daily lunch programme feeding all of our school children
• A scholarship fund propelling 230 children to the next stage of their education
• A vocational training programme for 120 young adults
• A micro-finance programme funding over 400 women
• Community programmes teaching people about their health, nutrition and HIV/Aids
• “Lalibella”, a line of home accessories to be sold in UK retailers
What we do
We aim to paint a brighter future for everyone we work with –
one child and one family at a time. Our programmes support
children and adults on an educational pathway until they
can stand on their own feet, find a job and break the cycle of
poverty – for good.
Vocational training
Our vocational training programme gets unemployed young
adults back into the job market by teaching them a trade.
We make sure that this turns into a job and a decent wage.
In addition, all of our students attend business courses, which
teach them life skills, financial literacy and business skills.
Mundai Messai Wondemagen Degafa
How we do it
Give A Future runs educational projects, which support
children and young adults in Addis Ababa, the capital of
Ethiopia. We also run economic development projects for
women in the city. Our aim is to make the 5,500 people that
we support more employable, by supporting their education
to a level that allows them to earn a decent wage, and a
secure future.
Education
Ethiopia’s economy is growing at more than ten percent a
year. Yet only one percent of its population goes to university.
More Ethiopian young people than anywhere else in the
world are poised to enter the workforce in the next thirty
years. They desperately need training to keep up with the
country’s burgeoning economy. We fund higher education,
to propel more young adults into this university educated
minority.
Microfinance
We help women with an entrepreneurial mindset to set up
their own businesses. The women who take part in our microfinance
programme learn life skills and financial literacy, as
well as the importance of saving money. With the small loan
that they receive, they’re typically able to significantly improve
their lives.
As with our vocational training programme, these women
attend a business course where they learn life skills such
as saving money and how to be financially literate. Typically
they create up to five times more profit once completing the
programme, than they did beforehand.
We house girls and boys from the ages of 5 to 20 years. Our
homes are loving safe-havens for children who used to live on
the streets. Many were orphaned by AIDS or abandoned by
parents living in poverty. We have one group home for our
older boys, one group home for our older girls and a central
home for our younger children.
Our homes are at the heart of all our work.
It is where we bring everyone together at the end of a busy day.
It is where we hold meetings, run our mentorship programme
and host visitors. It is where we spend time with our children
and quite simply show our love for them.
We have watched these children grow up over the past 6 years
and are so proud of their achievements. We know that we have
given them the most important grounding for their future: a
loving home to which they feel they will always belong.
and trusted friend. His influence has been phenomenally
successful in turning extremely traumatised children with
harrowing backgrounds into happy, trusting, curious children
that are full of hope and enthusiasm for their future. Having
completed financial training, Mamoush also works as our local
accountant. He’s also responsible for doing the shopping. He’s
careful to keep expenditure on food/clothes and materials to
a minimum.
As we are a small organisation, we’re able to take an individual
approach to care, which goes far beyond covering the
children’s basic needs. This is how we hope to have maximum
impact on their lives. We work to educate all of our children
until they leave us as grown-ups with a career.
Thanks to Mamoush and his team of social workers, teachers,
nurses, psychologists and volunteers we have 40 happy and
thriving children in our care.
And it’s not only at university level that education often falls
short in Ethiopia. Only half of all children in the country attend
primary schools. This number drops to a third in secondary
schools. We make sure that the children in our care complete
their education – and crucially have a solid career path at the
end of it.
In the first few years of establishing the project, some of the
children would run away from the home. But for the last two
years, we’ve had no runaways. In fact, we wish that we had
more space and funds to open many more such loving homes
that children want to run to.
The secret to the home’s success is our lead carer Mamoush.
He’s everything to the children. Family, confidante, teacher
Plans for 2012/13
Over the next year we want to continue our mentoring
programme, bringing in successful speakers to inspire our
children. We also want to take in more young street children
into the Home, subject of course to how much money we’re
able to raise over the coming months.
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Schools
2012
...educating one child at a time. We currently run three schools: a nursery school for very young children
aged 3 years and up; a primary school for children in grades 1 to 4 and a secondary school for children
in grades 5 to 8.
A headmaster oversees all three of the schools, who has 11
years of teaching experience and a BA in Education. We have
an assistant headmaster in each school, who also serves as a
teacher.
Our schools aim to:
1) Get children off the streets and into the classroom. We
aim to give children the education and skills they need
to break out of the poverty cycle.
2) Keep students in our schools until they reach grade 8,
and see them through either secondary school or
vocational training.
3) Help families to learn about health, hygiene and the
value of education.
4) Keep academic standards high and give extra help to
those who struggle in the classroom
Teachers
We have a strong staff and a high retention rate. In September
2011 we boosted the salaries of our teachers and support staff
to ensure they’re paid a living wage. We have started contributing
to pension schemes for the staff, following government
guidelines. We actively encourage our teachers to continue
their own education, and we provide money for them to do
so. Our teachers attend government-training schemes and we
organise a yearly retreat and team-building trip for the staff to
keep them motivated.
Teacher absenteeism has not been an issue at our schools. This
is in stark contrast to teacher absenteeism rates in the rest of
Ethiopia, which were found to be a staggering 45% in 2004 –
according to the World Development Report.
Pupils
Our students come from extremely poor backgrounds.
Education is often too expensive for their parents and it isn’t
a priority for families who need their children to contribute
financially to the home. When children first join our nursery
school, we emphasise the importance of punctuality, of
regular attendance and arriving clean and dressed in the
school uniform.
Nursery classes experience a much higher absentee rate than
further up the school. This is because:
• Parents still require a lot of encouragement to send
their children to school every day
• Younger children are often sick and need to stay at
home
• Younger children are often used by their parents to
beg and earn money
Absences in our nursery school can be up to 30 pupils a month.
The number drops to less than 10 absences a month when the
children reach primary school.
The drop out rate in Nursery school was 2.8% in the last
school year, a constant in the lower years of our school. This
is mainly due to families having to relocate to the countryside
because of financial hardship or because the government is
dispossessing and relocating families from certain areas to the
outskirts of Addis Ababa. .Only one child dropped out of our
primary school this year, again due to the family moving to the
countryside for financial reasons.
Health
We’ve noticed that our students are becoming “healthier”.
They’re getting fewer skin problems, fewer runny noses and
fewer complaints of stomach aches. This is due to our introduction
of a de-worming programme, improved hand
washing practices, the lunch programme and the health
workshops. The longer the student has attended our schools
the more exposure they’ve had to these positive programmes
and practices. The trend towards better health could also be
attributed to a positive shift in the parent’s commitment to
education or to the mother participating in our microfinance
programme and a reduction in economic hardship.
Grades
Academic performance is a key indicator for how the students
are doing in school and whether or not the support we give is
adequate. Many of the students come from households where
the parents have little or no education and are unable to assist
with homework. In the younger classes, our main objectives
are to get the students used to going to school, learning to
play and making friends. We also teach them basic literacy
and numeracy in preparation for moving up to the first grade.
We’re very proud that all of the students in our schools have
managed to move up a grade this past school year.
97% of our nursery school children perform well above
national average. In primary school 72% of our students
achieved grades above the national average. Our objective for
the coming school year will be to have at least 90% of students
getting test scores above 65% (national average).
Lunch Programme:
The lunch programme feeds all of our students and ensures
that they receive at least one hot, nutritious meal every day. It
has now been running for the last three academic years and
is a huge success. Reports from both students and parents
indicate that it is greatly appreciated by all. We’ve noted less
absences, better health and higher academic performance
since it started.
School plans for the coming year
• Continuing engagement with the parents and the
community including running more workshops for
them
• Helping to identify students who are getting grades
which fall below 65%
• Developing after-school tutorials for these students
Student profiles
Negataw is 7 and goes to Kindergarten at our school in
Shiromeda. Negataw lives with her mother, father, four sisters
and two brothers in a small one-room house in the same area.
Her father is a weaver and her mother collects garbage,
for which she gets a small wage from the local community
government. Negataw says she is healthy but often has
stomach aches. The lunch programme at our school has been
life changing for her because she says there’s sometimes no
breakfast at her house and dinner is often just biscuits. The hot
lunch we provide can sometimes be her only real meal of the
day.
Her favourite subject is English and she likes to come to
school and play with her friends and study. At home, one of
her brothers helps her with her homework. He is older and is
one of the lucky ones who goes to school. Negataw hopes her
younger siblings will get a chance to study like her.
Mescarum Asrat is 10 years old and is a Grade 3 student at our
primary school. She began her studies at our nursery. She lives
with her mother, sister and brother in a small one-room house
in Shiromeda.
Her father passed away several years ago and her mother
makes a small living by selling handicrafts in the local market.
Mescarum says that her mother often falls ill. Her older sister
is a grade 7 student and her brother is in grade 3. They are
not students at our schools and the mother struggles to keep
up the payments for their education. As the youngest, there
wouldn’t have been enough money to send Mescarum to
school without Give A Future.
Mescarum looks healthy, although she’s tiny for her age. Her
only complaint is the occasional headache. For breakfast
she eats leftovers – if there are any from the night before.
Sometimes she says there’s no dinner for the family at all. She
says she’s very happy to have the lunch at school, as she knows
it will be there every day.
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Scholarship Programme
2012
...funding one child/young adult at a time. We believe education is the best investment we can make in
a child’s future – and when paired with individual mentoring, it can change the lives of individuals, their
extended families and communities, for good.
The Scholarship Programme funds
• 100 students from Kindergarten to Grade 12
• 30 students in College or University
• 40 students from our Home and Group Homes
• 60 NEW students enrolled in September 2012
• A parents’ committee to build community links
Our scholarship programme allows 230 children between the
ages of four and 25 to attend schools and universities across
Ethiopia. Our aim is that all children in our care end up with a
job. And every additional year in education adds about 10%,
on average, to the wage they can take home.
How it works
The scholarship programme has been running for several years
and is growing slowly to meet the demands of the community.
The programme started as a support for children going into
secondary school and for university students who needed
financial assistance to cover their books. However, with our
primary schools at full capacity we decided to expand the
scholarship program to assist young children in our catchment
area to go to private schools.
The registration process is carried out by our two social workers
who interview each student and conduct a home visit to
assess the level of their need. The students are then enrolled in
local private schools, uniforms are bought for them and school
materials supplied. Our two social workers follow the scholars’
progress, by visiting their schools to check their attendance
and to talk to the teachers about their performance.
Successes
Through our experience of running a primary school, we know
that parental support and encouragement is key to a child’s
academic success. We’ve established a Parent Committee
among the parents of the younger scholarship students and
they meet our social workers every two weeks. Furthermore,
all the parents of these students are split into two groups and
they meet once a month at our office. During these meetings
the social workers discuss any issues that have been identified
by the schools such as attendance and hygiene. This gives
the parents an opportunity to seek advice and share their
experiences. Two members of our Parent Committee are now
also serving on the area’s Development and Health Committee
and have helped 9 of our families to get access to water and
shower facilities.
Students who receive poor grades after their first term meet
with a social worker and their parents to discuss how to
improve their marks. The parents are strongly encouraged to
send their children to school every day and are advised not to
take their children out of school to go begging.
Our university and college students are mostly studying
outside of Addis Ababa and report to us regularly by email.
During the summer they have to provide us with their final
results. We then talk through the forthcoming year and any
challenges they have faced. Most of them spend the summer
holidays in the countryside with members of their families.
Those with accommodation in Addis, spend their summers
volunteering at our Home; teaching and playing sport with the
children we care for.
We’re continuing to provide home support to one university
student, Muna Fedlu, while she completes her Medical
training at Hyatt University in Addis. She is doing very well
and has begun her third year and will soon be starting clinical
placements.
Challenges
The main challenges we face are linked to the extreme poverty
in which our scholarship students and their families live. They
struggle to send their children to school on time, dressed
in a clean uniform and with enough to eat. These issues are
not new - but there is often little we can do to help, besides
providing encouragement, liaising with the school administration
on behalf of the parent and offering a space at our
monthly meetings for parents to share their hardships and
experience and offer each other support and advice.
Plans for 2013
• Continue to strengthen the parent committee
• Tutor students that fall well below grades of 65%
• Take in 60 new students
• Mentor our university students and build a reward
system for excellence in their studies
• Organise IT literacy courses for our university
students, as many do not know how to use
computers
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Vocational Training
2012
...One young adult at a time. With our vocational training programmes we teach young adults a trade
and make sure they find a job afterwards – that pays a decent wage. On learning a trade, students also
follow business courses, which teach them life skills and financial literacy.
We have 120 young adults in our vocational training
programmes. Many of our graduates earn 50-200% more
after a year in a trade, compared to what they would have
earned without this training.
How it works
Our vocational training programme is still in its infancy and
we’re learning as we go. It’s our most challenging programme,
because we only work with these young adults we take on for
a year. It’s a very short period of time to make a considerable
difference in anyone’s life.
All of our students get support in finding a job through career
workshops, which introduce the concept of job searching on
graduation. We have learned some valuable lessons from the
past two groups of students and our focus is on finding the
balance between providing support but not creating a sense
of dependency.
Our aim is to equip the young people we work with, with
the tools required to enter the job market and ultimately to
become financially independent.
Our students are doing things as varied as:
Electronics Maintenance, Food Catering, Videography & Film,
Hairdressing, Electrical Engineer, Plumbing, Computer Service
& Maintenance
Recruitment
We have two staff who assess the young people we work
with, make home visits and support the students through the
training.
Once a student is accepted into the programme and the registration
is complete, new students have an induction that
outlines their roles and responsibilities and what they can
expect during the course and after. This is an opportunity for
us to manage their expectations and to say what we expect in
return.
In addition to paying their tuition fees we also provide the
students with travel money to get to and from their classes. If
classes require specific materials, we’ll also supply that.
Challenges
Vocational training has the potential to make a huge
difference to young people’s lives. However, it is challenging
as it requires a strong commitment to following them - and
relies on the strength of the job market. Many of the students
have been unemployed for some time and they lack discipline
and motivation. Other students are constantly looking out for
other job opportunities and when they spot one, they grab it –
and leave the programme.
Retention has been an issue so far with students leaving for
various reasons including:
• Lack of interest in the course
• Finding a job elsewhere
• Family problems
• Moving home
In the programme’s first year, we had a 50% drop out rate. This
past year we had an 25% drop out rate and hopefully next year
we will have even less.
We want to improve our recruitment process to identify those
young people, who are genuinely motivated and already
making an effort to find work. We also want to provide more
business and financial literacy training beyond the 12 months
of official training. We will focus on young people who are truly
motivated and trying to better their lives. We have also taken
steps to improve our programme by trying to establish links
with local businesses in the community to understand how we
can assist our students to find jobs.
We are now trying to develop an apprenticeship programme
that will place our graduates in local businesses for a few
months of work experience. This would include a small salary
for the student to help with subsistence - and in return the
student would work for free, developing skills and making
contacts.
Plans for 2013
• Extend our financial and moral support to students
having difficulty in finding a job for 6 months after
they graduate
• Organise workshops to help them find jobs after
graduation
• Take in 40 new young adults in 2013. Work on
building internship and apprenticeship opportunities
Student profiles
Sonite Mulgeta is 22 and following a ten month Catering
programme.
Sonite lives with her five sisters in a small house in Shiromeda.
Her parents live in the country working as subsistence farmers.
The girls moved to Addis to get an education and earn money.
Three of her sisters are studying and the other two are working
to pay the rent and food. She attends evening classes as during
the day she works as a cleaner. Sonite is really enjoying learning
how to cook. Her favourite dish is the traditional Ethiopian tibs
but she’s also learning to make Western food. Sonite is positive
about the future. Once she has completed her course, she will
introduce herself to local businesses and hopes to be hired as
a cook in a restaurant or hotel.
Fikerta Mekonnen is 27 and following an eight-month hairdressing
course.
Fikerta lives with her aunt in Shiromeda and they earn a
small income from renting out a room. Fikerta was trained by
a charity to make clothes and she earns a small amount by
selling them locally. She completed her primary education and
sat the Grade 12 National Exam but didn’t do well enough to
go to university. Fikerta is really happy to have been given the
opportunity to learn how to cut and style hair. Her favourite
activity is straightening hair and she has been practicing on
her peers. When she completes her training, she wants to
get experience working at a hairdresser. She plans to start as
an assistant hairdresser and work her way up. Eventually she
would like to have her own salon.
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Micro-Finance Programme
2012
...lending money to one woman and her family at a time. The women who take part in our finance
programme learn to save money, learn life skills and become financially literate.
With the small loan that they receive, they’re typically able to
set up a business and to raise their family above the poverty
line after one or two years. Over 400 women are enrolled in our
programme – many who’re now on their fourth funding round.
Our women typically have up to five people in their families,
meaning almost 2,000 people in total benefit directly from the
businesses they set up. The loans programme helps them to
take better care of their families, to provide food and education
for their children and access health care and better housing.
Almost all of the women we fund, repay the loan within a year.
How it works
The Women’s Business Programme enables us to work directly
with women in the community. Often the mothers of our
students, it helps to strengthen their economic situation and
make them and their families more resilient. Teaching them
basic business skills, as part of our 2 week course, gives them
the tools to grow and run a successful small business while
building their self-confidence. Our loan gives them access to
capital that’s otherwise out of reach.
Most importantly, from the minute the women join the
programme they are encouraged to begin saving a very small
amount each week. By fostering a culture of saving, we aim to
provide a financial cushion for the women we work with and
make them think about their financial future. We bring the
businesswomen together regularly to share their experiences
with one another.
When 20 women express an interest in taking part, we start
a new training session. The feedback from those we train is
extremely positive. Almost as soon as the women start the
training, you can see a clear change in their confidence and
ambition.
The women we fund hold their meetings at our office, which
also serves as the weekly collection point for their cash. Our
staff and an accountant are present when the loan papers
are signed and the money is handed out. One of the major
benefits to having credit lines in the community we work in, is
that our women don’t have to travel far to make their weekly
deposits or collect money.
Challenges
Despite the many challenges our beneficiaries face, the vast
majority still manage to make a success of their business, save
money and re-pay the loans they take. For a few though, the
challenges are too great to overcome. We can authorise delays
in loan repayments, to allow a woman time to get back on
track and continue re-paying their loan.
Only four women in total have decided to default on their
loans. In these cases we issue warning letters and then we
follow up with the Community Courts to retrieve the money.
Plans for 2013
• Take in 200 new women
• Work intensely with women who are on the cusp of
defaulting
• Bring in some of our success stories to talk to other
women and inspire them
• Hire an extra liaison officer
Beneficiary Profiles
Genet Eshete is 47 years old and joined our programme at the
beginning of this year. Before joining she had earned money by
baking traditional Ethiopian bread. She fell ill, and had to use
her savings to get by - so she was unable to buy the ingredients
she needed to carry on baking. Once she registered for a loan,
she started saving and took up business training at our office.
The training has motivated her to restart her baking business
and to make it a success.
Genet lives in a house near our office. It is spotless and she
is clearly proud of it. She has one daughter who is 9 years
old and is one of our scholarship students. Her husband left
many years ago and she has been on her own ever since. Her
business is thriving and she’s won a contract with a local shop
to supply them with bread. She sells the rest outside her house
to passers by.
On average she makes a profit of 100birr (£3.40) each month.
She’s eager to pay the first loan back and take a second, so
she can buy larger quantities of raw materials and bake more.
When asked what impact the programme has had on her life,
she replies “More then just making money, I have learned so
much about how to manage my house and my life”.
Tsehay Beleta was one of the first women to take part in our
business scheme in 2009. She heard about our programme
because her two children went to our primary school. With
the first loan Tsehay started a small charcoal business. With
the second, she expanded and began renting a small storage
unit in the local market so she could purchase and store more
charcoal, cutting the number of times she needed to travel
back and forth to buy more.
Her husband began working with her to manage the growing
business. She now has three children, a daughter in Grade 4, a
son in Grade 2 and a new addition to the family - a little boy
of 7 months. They have moved house and now have a larger
two-room house with bunk beds, a couch and chairs, TV and
radio and a separate room for cooking and food storage. They
have expanded the business and now also sell grain. She is
currently paying back the third loan of 2000birr (£68) and
plans to take a fourth. She says everything has changed since
she took the first loan “We can manage paying our rent and for
food. We can buy things when we need to”.
Yelfin Mesfin is 25 - and has been blind from an early age. She
lives in Shiromeda with her husband and child, who is on our
scholarship programme. Her husband ekes out a living selling
small items here and there. Before joining our programme,
Yelfin would do the same, selling lottery tickets on the streets.
She took out a loan in early 2012 and began building up her
savings week by week. After she started business training, she
was inspired to start her own business. She has been actively
running her business for the last month, selling soap and other
household products on the side of the road in Shiromeda.
She says business is good, though she’s regularly moved on by
the police, as she is not licensed to be a
street seller. Her blindness is a huge hurdle, and some customers
take advantage of her. Yet she is determined to succeed.
in the future, her plan is to take a second loan and offer a wider
range of products to her customers.
Tebe Tega is 30, and again one of the pioneers of our microfinance
programme. With the cash she got, she set up a mobile
business selling sandwiches around local bars and offices.
During this time her husband had on-off work as a laborer.
They lived in a small house, with their 3 children who attend
our schools.
She was doing well and repaying her loan regularly, when
after five months she suddenly became ill and was unable to
continue with her business. We suspended her payments until
she recovered. But just as she had got better, her husband died
in an accident, followed by her mother-in-law just two weeks
later.
The funeral costs left her penniless – and unable to get her
business back off the ground. Now, Tebe is healthy and working
washing clothes in the neighborhood and has resumed the
loan payments. Once she finishes paying back the first loan she
plans to take another one and begin baking bread to sell. She
has only a small amount left to pay and is looking forward to
getting a business set up again.
Another pioneer, Twebech Gonje used the money she got
from her loan to set up a weaving business with her husband.
They moved away from Addis where the rent was cheaper and
they could afford a larger house for their looms. After taking
a second round of money, she joined a local weaving co-operative
that was being supported by a government initiative
which gave them free space in which to work.
Twebech continues to produce other products at home with
her husband which they sell independently in local markets.
She is almost ready to take another loan to grow the business.
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Economic development
....investing in one business at a time. Give A Future supports local business ventures, by investing in our
vocational training graduates.
We are in the process of investing and opening more
businesses in Addis Ababa. With our new export business
“Lalibella”, we have started working with local craftsmen.
The aim is to produce home accessories to be sold in the
UK, which will create employment in Ethiopia, contribute to
economic development in Addis and generate revenues for
our charitable projects.
Nobody made a greater
mistake than they who did nothing
because they thought
they can only do a little.
We are pushing hard to make our projects more self-sustaining,
and less dependent on donations. This will take us some
time, so please keep supporting us - as you do so generously
year after year.
Plans for 2013
• Launch Lalibella internationally and get our products
on the shelves
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Thank you 2012
We cannot thank all of our supporters enough, you all make a world of a difference to 5500 people!
We couldn’t do it without you!
Barclays Bank
Henkel MIT Foundation
Nando Peretti Foundation
Miles Morland
Alys and Jim Garman
Goldman Sachs Matching Program
All Barclays Pay as you earn donors
Mark Dearlove
Matthias and Stefania Calice
Dan Meyer
Matteo Ferrario
William and Richard Noortman
Fabrizio and Natalia Boaron
Wolfgang Graf von Maldeghem
Brambleski
We also want to say a very warm thank you to all our volunteers,
both in London and Addis Ababa for giving their time and talent towards our projects.
You make an invaluable difference to our children and women in Addis Ababa.
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Budget Report 2012
Budget 2013 Yearly ETB Yearly GBP
HOMES
Rent 216,000 7,714
Salaries 265,200 9,471
Food 216,000 7,714
Children’s Programmes 24,000 857
Children’s Needs 60,000 2,143
Medical 6,000 214
Transport/Utilities/Admin 111,600 3,986
Group Home 1 - Boys 87,600 3,129
Group Home 2 - Girls 180,000 6,429
TOTAL 1,166,400 41,657
SCHOOLS
Rent
KG compound 108,000 3,857
GR 1-4 compound 216,000 7,714
GR 5-8 compound 168,000 6,000
Salaries 530,400 18,943
Tax/Pensions 19,200 686
Teaching Materials 48,000 1,714
Cleaning Materials 30,000 1,071
Maintenance 30,000 1,071
Utilities/ Admin 49,200 1,757
Uniforms 96,000 3,429
Special Events 36,000 1,286
Lunch Programme 590,760 21,099
TOTAL 1,921,560 68,627
COMMUNITY AND WOMEN’S
BUSINESS PROGRAMME
Rent 60,000 2,143
Salaries 246,000 8,786
Utilities/Transport/Materials 38,400 1,371
Transport 12,000 429
Pensions 21,600 771
Sponsorship Programme 28,800 1,029
Women Business Loans and Training 406,200 14,507
TOTAL 813,000 29,036
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME
Salaries 60,000 2,143
Home students fees 84,000 3,000
Primary students fees (KG-Gr 8) 336,000 12,000
Highschool students fees (Gr 9-12) 3,600 129
University/College students allowance 199,500 7,125
Home support students 102,000 3,643
TOTAL 725,100 25,896
VOCATIONAL TRAINING
Salaries 90,000 3,214
Tuition Fees 120,000 4,286
Transport 84,000 3,000
Training and Materials 24,000 857
TOTAL 318,000 11,357
TOTAL COSTS 4,944,060 176,574
Expenditure in 2011 and 2012 have been very close to budget in Ethiopian birr (ETB). Because of ETB continuing devaluation,
we have made some savings that are being reinvested in 2013. The 2013 budget of ETB 4.94 million is about 30% higher than
the 2012 budget of ETB 3.85 million. This is because of increasing rent and salary demands due to high inflation in Ethiopia.
The continuing devaluation of the birr will likely lead to less than a 20% increase in the Sterling budget. Please ask if you are
interested in more details on the budget.
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We can’t thank you all enough!
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