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If you are interested to help
children found under difficult conditions send your financial support to:
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
International Banking Division
P. O. Box 255, Addis Ababa
Fax 251-11-551-45-22 or
251-11-5517822 or 251-11-551-7866
Telex 21037A Ethiobank Addis
Swift reference
CBETETAAXXX
Branch A/C no.
01704-176132-00 Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia
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About
CHAD-ET
The Need
Around 3 million people in Ethiopia are currently infected with
HIV/AIDS. The rate of infection is increasing rapidly, and in
Addis Ababa, one in six adults are already infected. Street
children are particularly vulnerable to infection due to their
low state of health and their susceptibility to becoming
involved with sex work to survive. Children living and working
on the street are at great risk of abuse and exploitation, and
their susceptibility is worsened by a general lack of awareness
regarding HIV/AIDS prevention in the community at large.
The Project
CHAD-ET, ChildHope’s partner organization in Ethiopia, is
working in three areas of Addis Ababa, where around 5,000
children are at risk of sexual exploitation and other children
are living and working on the streets. The project aims to help
around 600 of these children at risk in the following ways:
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Aims
To educate children on the dangers of practicing unprotected sex
by training peer educators
To enable sexually exploited girls secure alternative employment
by helping them access education scholarships and vocational
programmes
To work with parents and the wider community to increase
awareness on HIV/AIDS, and the situation of street children,
through public drama performances and school clubs
To lobby the Ethiopian Government to make their HIV/AIDS policy
more child-focused
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The Addis Ababa based organisation CHAD-ET ‘Children Aid
Ethiopia’, is a key local partner organisation in Concern’s
HIV/AIDS programme. Concern was Chadet’s only foreign donor
until recently, when World Bank funding became available.
CHAD-ET's director, Ato Ananya, explains that the initial
support from Concern was the boost that CHAD-ET needed to grow
to its current capacity.
CHAD-ET's programmes concentrate on three key elements:
1-HIV/AIDS prevention through peer educators in the community,
through music, drama and public discussions and through the
provision of leaflets and the free distribution of condoms.
2-Care is provided for two client groups; people living with
HIV/AIDS and AIDS orphans. People who are infected with the
virus receive medical support, some household goods such as a
mattress, sheets and a blanket and when needed a small monthly
payment to cover rent and food expenses. Chadet also has an
extensive network of home-based care volunteers who are trained
by Chadet to provide support to bedridden patients and their
families. For orphans Chadet provides medical care if needed,
financial support to those who live alone or to grandparents or
other guardians who look after orphans, and school enrolment
fees and school uniforms.
3-Capacity building for local leaders. While this element is
often overlooked by other agencies, Chadet believes the problems
surrounding HIV/AIDS cannot be tackled without the buy-in from
local groups. Chadet has been instrumental in mobilising local
community leaders in the areas where they work, to find
practical solutions to a whole range of HIV/AIDS related
problems that only the local officials or local community can
help to solve.
The HIV/AIDS prevention work carried out from Chadet’s
sub-office in the heart of Mercato, the biggest open air market
in Africa, is targeted at the biggest risk groups in the area:
the male market traders and travellers who pass through
Mercato’s bus station and visit the many sex workers in the
area.
To provide both the sex workers and the clients with condoms,
Chadet has placed ten open boxes with condoms in strategic
places around the area; some are in bars, others outside the
kebele offices, and there’s even one box at a popular
barbershop.
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Address: Children Aid Ethiopia (CHAD-ET), P. O. Box 5854 Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia
E-mail:
Telephone:
25115156959
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