$64,000 Donation Goal
Lack of opportunity for these young girls, combined with the fact that only 15% of high school graduates in Ethiopia are accepted into universities, result in a huge population of unskilled and unemployed youth.
About This Project
Our plan is to seek out the poorest of young women and men before they turn to seek to make a living on the streets. The DevXchange New Livelihood Project is implemented through a local NGO “New Hope Integrated Development”. The committee carefully searches for candidates among the hundreds if not thousands of potential candidates for training in vocational skills. Demelash and Asdinek, the project managers, along with the schools the trainees attended, seek to help these young women to find employment and in some cases to start their own businesses.
Terengo
She was a house maid for 7 years for a private home where she earned 150 Birr per month. (Just to give you an idea for comparison—a simple guard would have made about 1,000 Birr per month at that time.) She had no way to get ahead or out. She told Demelash, our Project Manager, that her life was very hard and they ended up inviting her into Vocational Training for sewing. Someone from our team shared with her about the hope and purpose they had found in Jesus and she became a Christian. She graduated the course and went out to look for work. The team followed up with her a few years later to see how she was doing. She has married and her husband has also become a believer—they have 2 sons. They were able to purchase a sewing machine and were working together very successfully. They were making a family income of about 500 birr per day!

Yabsira
Yabsira is 19 years old and a recent graduate of Hairdressing Vocational Training.
She comes from a poor family and wasn’t able to finish high school. She lives with her mother and father and three sisters. Two of her sisters have husbands and children and they all live in one small house. She shared she couldn’t get any work so she just sat. Then she got the opportunity through Newlivelihood to receive Vocational Training in Hairdressing. Now she is employed at a hair salon and her life has gotten much better.

Change A Life
$65 a month for one year provides vocational training for an at-risk girl who might otherwise be pressured to enter the sex-trade.
Together with your support of only
$65/month for one year,
we can change a life.