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              Supporting persons with disability

            Nun Agere Assefa

The Inclusive Health, Economic and Social Development program (IHESDP) project, with an allocated budget of Birr 92 million and funded by Hope and Healing International /HHI, is being implemented for a five-year in South Gondar Zone of Guna Begiemidir & Andabet woredas. It is operated in fifteen / 15 / selected kebeles for livelihoods and health sector improvement in these two woredas. Nun Agere Assefa, aged 32, is among the beneficiaries of the project.

Nun Agere lives in Atsede Mariam Kebele, Andabet woreda. She has a disability problem in her leg since in her 4 age, and she is in difficulty doing heavy agricultural works. But now, she is running sheep rearing after she got two ewes and washera ram support.

“Previously I don’t have enough money to buy ewes and to make sheep rearing. So, the project supported me with one washera ram and two ewes. The ewes gave birth to four lambs, and I sold them. I got the sheep rearing job difficult in case of my leg disability. So, I planned to consult project experts about changing to cattle farming,” she said.