Turning Challenges into Opportunities: My Success Story
My name is Sisay Asfaw, a 32-year-old from Sanasabiya Kebele, Gondar City. After completing my degree in agriculture, I struggled with unemployment and uncertainty about my future.
With the support of my family, I invested 35,000 ETB to start a small poultry farm, beginning with 120 chicks. My turning point came when I joined the ADEY Project, where I received practical training in both technical and business skills.
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To: All Charities, Associations, and Donor Agencies: A Call to Uphold Humanitarian Principles
Subject: Ensuring Neutrality and Respect in Humanitarian Aid
Meet Seyid Mohammed — a beekeeping entrepreneur from Bati Woreda whose family legacy has grown into a model of sustainable rural development.
Ato Ermias Gebreye, Procurement and Finance Lead at Mersa Health Center in Habru Woreda, shares how the partnership with ORDA Ethiopia and UNICEF has transformed the center into a hub for nutrition education and improved healthcare. Through the Climate Smart Nutrition Project, the center received solar power, chickens, a fish pond, and vegetable inputs—enabling it to provide uninterrupted services, balanced food access, and weekly malnutrition screenings for children from 12 kebeles. The project has reduced power costs, improved medicine storage, and empowered mothers with practical nutrition knowledge.
Ato Suhali Wassie, a father from Kes Kebele, Habru Woreda, struggled to support his malnourished son through daily labor. With support from ORDA Ethiopia and UNICEF’s Climate Smart Nutrition Project, he received three goats—now 12—and began feeding his child goat milk, leading to full recovery. The project helped him build a sustainable livelihood, restore his child’s health, and sparked a vision to grow his herd to 600. Suhali now inspires others in his community and has abandoned plans to migrate abroad.
Read more: The Project is beyond improving nutrition and health status