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OUR ACTIVITIES
At Mary Joy Ethiopia, we are committed to transforming lives and empowering communities through innovative and sustainable programs. Our work focuses on addressing the root causes of poverty and vulnerability, ensuring that individuals and families can thrive with dignity and hope. Through our holistic approach, we tackle key areas such as education, health, livelihood, and child protection, creating long-lasting impacts that inspire positive change.
Discover more about our core programs and the transformative work we do in partnership with communities across Ethiopia.
1. Livelihood Enhancement
Objective:
Supports caregivers of vulnerable and at-risk children, returning irregular migrants, aspiring migrants, unemployed young individuals, and socio-economically disadvantaged women.
Activities:
Vocational training, support for small-scale businesses, and the provision of agricultural technologies. Business Development Services. life skills, mentorship, experience and knowledge sharing, and the provision of initial capital in cash and kind to support start-ups.
Impact:
Many families have secured sustainable income sources, resulting in improved quality of life.Many families have secured sustainable income sources, resulting in improved quality of life.
2. Education Support
Objective:
To enhance access to education and expand learning opportunities for children.
Activities:
Improving the quality of education through both soft and hard initiatives. Capacity-building interventions. Providing school supplies, meals, tutoring, and advocating for school fee exemption, scholarship programs, and school infrastructure development.
Impact:
Many children have gained access to education, opening doors to better opportunities for their future.
3. Health Improvement
Objective:
To provide access to basic healthcare services and improve overall community health.
Activities:
Impact:
Increased health awareness and successful disease prevention within the community.
4. Economic Strengthening
Objective:
To diversify income sources for economically vulnerable families and individuals, promoting financial independence.
Activities:
Microfinance initiatives, entrepreneurship support, and vocational training. Operate an injera production factory that provides income-generating opportunities for local women
Impact:
Participants have successfully achieved independent and sustainable incomes.
5. Public-Private Partnership
Objective:
To foster collaboration between public institutions and private sectors for sustainable development.
Activities:
Implementation of joint projects, resource sharing, and policy advocacy. Promotes citizen engagement, encourages private sectors to fulfill the corporate social responsibilities by supporting Orphan and Vulnerable Children (OVC) and socio-economically vulnerable elders.
Impact:
Efficient resource utilization and effective service delivery have been realized.
6. Child Protection, Participation, and Empowerment
Objective:
To safeguard children’s rights while promoting their social participation and self-realization.
Activities:
Child protection programs, leadership training, and workshops for children.
Impact:
Many children are growing up in safe environments and actively participating in society.
7. Medical Centers, Care-Rehabilitation Centers
Objective:
To implement both preventive and curative health care services in the community.
Activities:
MJE clinic Asco, Hawassa and through referral linkage with government health facilities.
Impact:
Our target communities, such as highly vulnerable children, caregivers, women, youth, destitute elders, PLHIV, and other vulnerable groups have been served with integrated services.
Education
The education program of Mary Joy Ethiopia focuses on two main components:
Improving the quality of education through both soft and hard initiatives. This includes facilitating separate toilets for girls and boys, constructing girls’ dignity rooms and expanding classrooms, and strengthening school libraries.
Capacity-building interventions involve training school teachers on various issues, establishing or strengthening Parent-Student-Teacher Associations, enhancing access to education for vulnerable children, and improving their academic performance and competencies.
The program offers educational support such as providing school supplies, meals, tutoring, and advocating for school fee exemption. It also provides non-formal education for children who have not accessed formal schooling, supports and promotes girls in school, reduces dropout rates, conducts educational assessments, and addresses gaps to enhance academic attendance and performance. Additionally, the program aims to provide psychosocial, medical, and legal support for girls at schools who are victims of rape, abduction, and other gender-based violence.
Health Component
The interventions focus on both curative and preventive aspects. The curative interventions are carried out within the MJE’s two health centers and through establishing partnerships with government health facilities to provide specialized services such as prevention, treatment, and palliative care for cervical cancer. We also support adolescent girls with comprehensive services within the law and provide support for girls seeking help with unsafe abortion, including medical and psychosocial support through referral mechanisms.
Another goal is to improve the community’s awareness and health-seeking behavior on RMNCH/FP (Reproductive Health, Mother, Neo-Nate and Child health including family planning), Nutrition, Tuberculosis, WASH, Malaria, Cervical Cancer, Lung Cancer, and HIV/AIDS including PMTCT.
Adolescent Youth Sexual Reproductive Health (AYSRH) interventions are essential as they aim to provide information, knowledge, and services related to AYSRH. The goal is to enhance the utilization of Adolescent Youth Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (AYSRHR), as well as to improve awareness surrounding Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) among school children, parents, peer mothers, Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), and religious leaders in the community.
Economic Strengthening
Economic strengthening interventions are the cornerstone of MJE’s program, and over the years, MJE has gained extensive experience in economically empowering the target community.
The program aims to engage women and youth in income-generating activities with the goal of uplifting vulnerable community groups from poverty.
The intervention focused on assisting people living with HIV/AIDS, socio-economically marginalized women, unemployed youth, and caregivers. This included vocational skill training, organizing Community Self-Supporting Saving Groups (CSSGs) and Village Level Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs), as well as providing training on business development services, small-scale business development, financial management, entrepreneurship, and offering startup capital.
Street CHILDREN program
This program addresses a cross-cutting issue by aiming to involve children in matters that affect their lives. As child-centered organization, MJE works to empower children to influence development initiatives and make them more child-friendly. MJE also aims to nurture future leaders for the nation.
public-Private-partnership
Mary Joy Ethiopia is a pioneering organization that runs a Private-Public-Partnership program to mobilize the private sector, the government, and the wider community to fund its programs. The program engages artists, media professionals, and celebrities as volunteers to rally resources for social causes. It aims to ensure the organization’s sustainability, foster a culture of giving, and provide a platform for Ethiopian citizens and philanthropists to fulfill their social responsibilities in an organized manner.
Additionally, it focuses on local and international resource mobilization, impacting both state and non-state actors’ partnerships. The Private Public Partnership Program (PPPP) seeks to empower citizens to support Highly Vulnerable Children (HVC), Orphaned and Vulnerable Youth (OVY), and disadvantaged senior citizens to facilitate sustainable development.
WE WORK FOR
- Orphanand Vulnerable Children and their care givers
- Destitute elder persons
- Unemployed youth
- People Living with HIV/AIDS
- Children in general on capacity building and empowerment)
OUR MAIN TARGETS
- Schools
- Health institutions
- CommunityBased organizations and Faith Based Organizations
- Factories on mainstreaming of HIV and AIDS and other socio-economic problems
- Local government structure
WHERE
WE WORK
In Addis Ababa MJE operates in six sub cities: Kolfe Keraniyo, Addis Ketema, Arada,Gulelie, Yeka and Bole covering 25 Woredas.
Yirgalem, Town, Hawassa, Boricha Woreda, Malga Woreda, Wondo Genet Town,Wondo Genet Woreda, Aleta Chuko Woreda, Aleta Chuko Town, Dara Kebado Woreda,Darara Woreda, Dara Otolicho Woreda, and Bilate Zuria Woreda
Mizan Aman and Tepi towns
Hadiya zone, Guraghe zone, and Mareko special woreda
Arbaminch, Dilla, Sodo, Jinka
Dodola, Hassasa, Bishoftu,