by Esayas Meskel | Aug 23, 2021 | Ethiopia, Youth Empowerment
In July, an inception workshop for the project ‘Enhancing the Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) and Livelihood Prospects’ of youth was held at a DSW youth development training center. The team discussed the detailed implementation modality of the four-year project...
by Esayas Meskel | Mar 11, 2021 | Anniversary, Covid-19, Ethiopia, Youth Empowerment
While observing Covid restriction measures, more than sixty stakeholders came together to help launch a newly extended project in Ethiopia. During the launch, a brief pause was arranged to honor DSW’s 30th anniversary. This event spells the first (of many!)...
by Esayas Meskel | Nov 3, 2020 | Ethiopia, Female Empowerment, Youth Empowerment
DSW presented its experiences at an advocacy workshop that it organised in collaboration with the Planning and Economic Development Commission of the Oromiya Regional State. The two-day workshop took place in Adama, 80 miles southeast of Addis Ababa, and called for...
by Esayas Meskel | Aug 25, 2020 | Covid-19, Ethiopia, Youth Empowerment
Encoy Kebede, 21, of the Bilechta Youth Club shares her experience of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected her community. The Bilechta (Bilichta) Youth Club is located in Aleltu, Oromia region, 55 km north of Addis Ababa. How are you feeling during the COVID-19...
by Esayas Meskel | Mar 16, 2020 | Ethiopia, Female Empowerment, Global Health
“My three-year-old daughter and I were still nestled together when we arrived at the Bahir Dar Hamlin Fistula Centre about a year back. I would spend the next three months in the centre along with my daughter. I realized then three months was quite time enough to...
