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Menschen für Menschen provides aid for self-development in Ethiopia – integrated, sustainable and at eye level. Our aim is to make the people independent of outside support in the long term. We have already been successful in our efforts for over 43 years, and propose to continue in future in the tradition of Karlheinz Böhm.

Together we can help, as Menschen für Menschen.

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“ “There is no first, second or third world. We all live on one and the same planet, for which we bear joint responsibility.” “

– Karlheinz Böhm

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Our work…

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Food security through improved methods of cultivation and animal husbandry, together with terracing and afforestation measures to combat soil erosion.

Agriculture

Hand dug wells and spring developments to supply the population with clean drinking water, awareness-raising for better hygiene.

Water

Construction of schools, provision of training facilities in vocational schools (TVETs) and literacy courses.

Education

Equipment of health centres to improve the standard of medical care, training of nursing staff and organization of awareness-raising campaign.

Health

Promotion of small-scale enterprise to combat poverty, microcredits and education to improve the social standing of women; development of infrastructure for better access to markets.

Income

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… works:

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New life on Mount Kundudo

900 kilometres of terracing, about 10 million seedlings: Menschen für Menschen is implementing a huge reafforestation project on the Kundudo plateau in eastern Ethiopia. It is representative of the Foundation’s goal of restoring the livelihoods of the people of Ethiopia and securing them in the long term. In this way, we can prevent emergency situations such as the severe food shortage being experienced by parts of Ethiopia as a result of the continuing drought.

Self-woven future

In the community of Hochecho in the central Ethiopian highlands there is a shortage of many things: more and more people must share the limited fertile soil. There is a lack of food, job opportunities and money to live. Many young men and women move to Addis Ababa or flee to another country to escape their hopeless situation. Menschen für Menschen, however, is striving to provide a new perspective in their home country – as demonstrated by a visit to the carpet weavers in the project region Wore Illu.

Back into the light

In rural Ethiopia there is a lack of adequate primary health care and well-trained professional staff. If people become ill, they often have to walk for days to get to a doctor or a hospital. For many, medical help is not available at all. We equip rural health centres with materials, give people advice on questions around health care and family planning and explain about HIV. We also train medical staff, organise vaccination campaigns and provide operations – for example, for cataracts

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Our success in numbers

470

Schools (newly built or extended)

70.692

Eye operations

2.839

Water points

31.053

Women who have taken up microcredits

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Our achievements

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Stories of Ethiopia

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Accompany five people from rural Ethiopia a few steps in their lives. “Stories of Ethiopia” portrays the work of our foundation in the five focal areas of agriculture, water supply, education, health and income generation in Ethiopia using emotional stories from our project areas.

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