Working to eradicate the hidden poverty in Ethiopia
Latest newsletter
Working with fistula cases, appreciating our volunteer counsellors and care-providers & tree-planting for the Ethiopian Millennium
June-Aug 2007 newsletter (PDF, 201kb)
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Featured Case Study
Leya, 22, was earning a living through commercial sex work. Mums for Mums has helped her move on and become part of a small business co-operative.
Download full case study (PDF)
New Building Update
See photos and more information about our new centre in Current Projects (which you can find in About Us).
HIV/Aids counsellors with Wzo Tebereh
Mums for Mums is an NGO based in Mekelle in the region
of Tigray in northern Ethiopia.
It is dedicated to working with some of the most marginalized and
forgotten members of Ethiopian society - young single women
and people living with HIV and AIDS.
Find out more about our objectives and our activities.
Find out more about our organization.
Find out how to donate to Mums for Mums.
In pursuit of our goals, the main activities of Mums for
Mums are as follows:
1. Providing skills training to young women
to enable them to become financially independent and self-reliant.
2. Addressing under-nutrition in Tigray by teaching people
the value of cactus, which grows freely, as a nutritious food for human
consumption.
3. Providing HIV/AIDS counselling and awareness building through door to
door visits and group sessions in Mekelle and other districts of Tigray
(such as Maichew, Adigrat and Adua).
4. Running a
free VCT (Voluntary
Counselling and Testing) centre for HIV/AIDS.
5. Home-based
care for AIDS sufferers and training family members to continue this
care
6. Providing
reproductive health counselling and a family-planning service.
7. Providing a family support programme to allow single
mothers to support themselves and their family until they become
financially independent.
8. Providing an
education support programme to enable young women to get further
education.