A happy and hopeful old man- Ato Assefa Nigussie
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85% of Saga small scale irrigation scheme completed
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ORDA Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security (SFNS) Project financed with 55 million birr by Federal Ministry of Germany for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Welthungerhilfe and the Amhara Regional Government, is aimed at increasing productivity of farmers in various components.
The Project targets to improve the livelihood of 13,284 benefitiaries in selected rural kebeles of Farta, Estie and Fogera and Guna Begemidir woredas from 2018 to 2020.
ORDA through Funding partners have been successfully carrying out Saga small scale irrigation scheme under Estie woreda in South Gondar zone. The Zonal administrators, ORDA higher officials & experts visited the project on 23/6/2020 to be completed sooner to benefit farmers.
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The project supplies farmers improved crop varieties like, tef, wheat, faba bean, potato, cabbage, and onion in a clustered approach and livestock resources like improved washera breed and egg laying hens etc for better productivity.
The project delivers improved crop & livestock resources, construction of safe water supply & irrigation canals, establishing village economic & social associations /VESAs/, creating job (like fattening) for youths, forming value-chain, gender mainstreaming, protection, promotion and support of healthy maternal, infant and young child feeding, encompassing infant and young child feeding, micro-nutrients and women's nutrition, and food security programs for improving nutrition practices among pregnant and lactating mothers and children under the age of two.
ORDA develops 172 safe water schemes & benefits more than 54 thousand people in North Shoa Zone
The organization also supplied PPE /materials to prevent COVID-19 pandemic and water scheme maintenance which worth over 4.7 Million Birr
The organization for Rehabilitation & Development in Amhara (ORDA) develops 172 safe water schemes which benefit more than 54 thousand people in Siyadebirana Wayu, Basona Worana and Angolelana Tera woredas of North Shoa Zone of Amhara region from 2019 to 2020.
In 2019 alone, ORDA built 84 water schemes (83 shallow boreholes & a spring development) and 3 ventilated pit latrin which benefited more than 25 thousand people in Siyadebirana Wayu & Basona Worana woredas.
In 2020, ORDA carried out 88 water schemes (83 shallow boreholes & 5 spring development) and 4 ventilated pit latrin which benefited close to 29 thousand people in Siyadebirana Wayu, Basona Worana & Angolelana Tera woredas. Hygiene and sanitation awareness trainings were also given to bring about change of behavior in order to create a healthy & productive citizen.
ORDA through a fund secured from Charity Water benefited 54 thousand 126 people who have been suffering much in water shortage for longer years. Water schemes will serve from 20 to 25 years if users together with concerned government bodies ensure for its proper management and sustainability
North Shoa Zone Water and Energy Department Head, Ato Kibruyisfa said the problem of safe drinking water has always been a basic public issue of woredas in North Shoa Zone. He said it was unable to answer all community requests as the budget is too small secured from the side of the government. Acknowledging ORDA and the funding organization Charity Water, he calls for respective woredas to work in harmony with ORDA & Charity Water.
Along with the supply of safe drinking water, hygiene and sanitation activities in the zone, ORDA funded by Charity Water demonstrated for a genuine partnership in combating COVID-19 pandemic. ORDA handed over a worth of over 4.7 Million Birr equipments like water scheme maintenance tools (1.1 Million Birr), alcohol, sanitizer, face-mask, liquid soap, a 20 liter jerrycan, hand gloves, infrared thermometer, megaphones/sound amplifiers to aware people in rural kebeles.
Generally, ORDA has provided various materials which worths over 43 million birr through its projects implemented in the region to prevent the spread of Corona virus/ COVID-19 pandemic.
#ORDA gratefully appreciates Charity Water for its generous support on behalf of beneficiaries. Thank you for the genuine partnership.
Improved Life in Dingima village
Eyayaw Adane, aged 25, lives in Dingima village, Wonberoch woftoma kebele, Ebinat woreda. He is married and has one child. He leads his livelihood in small agriculture.
Likewise, his colleague farmers who live in Dengima village, Eyayaw gifted one-hectare farmland from his family, and tries to cultivate crops once a year to accommodate his family food consumption. However, the crop earned from his agriculture was used for consumption only, and it did not cover other social expenses. It was due to a lack of inappropriate use of his resource, land. On this occasion, when ORDA’s improving youth employment through soft skill training and other supports project was launched in 2018, Eyayaw had been recruited to be a beneficiary.
The project has been working to benefit 200 jobless youth by budgeting Birr 5.2 million secured from Gafat Endowment & ORDA.
First, the project gave technical training in titles of business entrepreneurship & money management.
Then, Eyayaw prepared a business proposal and got Birr 90 thousand loans with an interest rate of 8% from the project. He joined in a cattle fattening & horticulture development and he improved his livelihood.
“I completed my high school education with the insufficient result, and then I became jobless. My family gave me one-hectare farmland, and I was producing wheat & legume ones a year only. But ORDA’s improving youth employment through soft skill training and other supports project recruited me and became beneficiary, while it recruited jobless youths. First I got Birr 90,000 loan from the project. Then, I bought one water pump generator and started irrigation work in the dry season, winter. I bought 3 quintals of Garlic seed & 4 quintals of Potato seed, and I sowed. Finally, I earned 15 quintals of garlic product and sold Birr 150,000â€, he said.
Now Eyayaw is paying back his loan principal & interest. Currently, he has bought two oxen with a cost of Birr 32 thousand for fattening. Besides, he deposited Birr 100 thousand in his bank account, and he has planned to cultivate Garlic for the next dry season, winter in Ethiopia.
Since ORDA’s improving youth employment through soft skill training and other supports project targets on creating youths who have the initiative to create their own job got a success, the Ebinat woreda should give due attention for the remaining revolving fund to accesses more jobless youths.
