Children Aid - Ethiopia (CHAD-ET)

Mission

CHAD-ET exists to create access to basic services for vulnerable children and to promote the rights of the child.

CHAD-ET

Children Aid- Ethiopia (CHAD-ET) is an indigenous non-governmental organization that is involved in protecting the rights and welfare of children found under difficult circumstances.  Established 1995, CHAD-ET is registered by the Ethiopian government as a not for profit NGO. 

Vision

CHAD-ET wants to see a society in which the needs of children are fulfilled and their rights respected.

Values

Focus on the marginalized, focus on children, respect the individual, be gender sensitive, hold a non-partisan position, support equality, be impartial, be relevant, acknowledge realities, assimilates ourselves into the community if necessary, commit to personal development, promote self-reliance, share decision making, be transparent, be accountable.

Strategic Objectives

 ·   Prevent the sexual exploitation, abuse and neglect of vulnerable children,

·  Promote the development of positive behavior that protects children and youth form risk that expose them to HIV/AIDS and other STIs,

· Increase access to reproductive health services for adolescents/youth groups,

· Create access to school aged vulnerable children to alternative basic education,

· Build the capacity of children at risk and their families through income generating schemes and trainings,

·  Promote the development of policies that endorse the well being of children affected by the AIDS epidemic, sexually abused and exploited children through advocacy, undertaking research and networking.

NEWS                              

CHAD-ET launches TV spots CHAD-ET in collaboration with like-minded NGOs launches TV spots aimed at addressing the impact of sexual abuse of children. Please click the links below to watch the spots (5 spots, 6.3 minutes) that are being aired via Ethiopian Television.  Spot 1   Spot 2 Spot 3 Spot 4 Spot 5 Chicago Public Radio 8/4/2008 Global Activism: Preventing Sexual Exploitation of Children in Ethiopia It’s Thursday and time for our Global Activism series. Each Thursday we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place. In March 2007, we featured the Vocation Training for Children at Risk in Ethiopia project on our Global Activism series. Founded by two former Peace Corps volunteers, the organization provides vocation training to sexually abused and destitute teens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Today, we’ll hear from the organization that helps choose the children that participate in the Vocational Training for Children at Risk project. Children Aid Ethiopia, or CHAD-ET, helps over 4,000 homeless and orphaned children in Ethiopia. They provide the children with health services and education, and work to stop the sexual exploitation of children on the streets. Anannia Admassu Sahle is the Founder of CHAD-ET and told Jerome how CHAD-ET got started...click here to listen

 

Scott Morgan and John Kulczycki were previously interviewed about CHAD-ET and the RPCV Legacy Project Vocational Training for Children at Risk. To listen to these nine-minute interviews click the following link  of the website of Social Edge, a program of the Skoll Foundation.

http://www.socialedge.org/features/peace-corps-entrepreneurs/archive/2007/05

Morgan’s is listed under May 1, 2007, and Kulczycki’s under May 15, 2007.

 

Board members

Ato   Getachew Demissie            Chair person

Ato   Debebe Moges                     V/Chair person

W/ro Yewoineshet Masresha        Member

W/ro  Konjit Seyoum                    Member

Ato    Daniel Siyoume                   Member

Ato   Anannia Admassu                   Member