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Towards Better Sanitation and Hygiene Practice – An Initiative by Amref Health Africa’s RAIN project
Ali Ahmed, 36, is a father of eight children (4 males and 4 females). He lives in Afa Genaro kebele, Bambasi woreda of Benishangul-Gumuz region, where Amref Health Africa through Coca-Cola Africa Foundation funded RAIN project implements water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) intervention.
The Afa Genaro kebele where Ali lives in had very poor hygiene and sanitation, as a rampant practice of open defecation wouldn’t stop. Locals kept on relieving themselves in bushes and it was common to see children and
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Advancing Solid Waste Collection One Step Ahead
Mohammedsani Mustefa, 25, lives in a rented room with his mother in Addis Ketema Sub-City of Addis Ababa. Two years ago, he quitted working as a daily laborer at construction sites due to the back breaking nature of the job, heavy work load, and long working hours with minimal wage. Stayed unemployed for some time, he, together with nine of his female friends, established a solid waste collection small scale enterprise association called ‘SET’ (ሴት - Amharic term for ‘Female’) in 2013, with support obtained from woreda Small Scale Enterprise Development offi
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WASH Flagship – Menstrual Hygiene Management
Living in a rural Hagugeta Kuni kebele of Shameshemene district in the Oromia Regional State, Woyitue had very little information about the COVID-19 pandemic as well as its preventive measures. Lack of adequate information on COVID-19 contamination and its prevention measures had left Woyitue and her community members defenseless to the virus.
As the global community suffers from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, community members in Arsi Negele and Shashemene districts of Oromia Regional State had very little informati
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From Open Defecation to Improved Household Latrine
Rahel Tareke, a mother of four in Adama city in the Oromia Regional State, recalls the tiring challenges that she had endured due to the lack of household pit latrines. “Imagine having no household pit latrine while living at the heart of one of Ethiopia’s major cities,” Rahel shrugged, as she stressed the health and social trauma that she suffered for lacking a pit latrine.
“Even the community latrine that we relied on for years, went out of service ahead of time due to a growing number of users on the absen
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Challenges are Now a Thing of the Past
Amina Aman, 60-years-old, recalls the dire situation concerning access to potable water in her small vicinity of Faji Gobe Kebele in the Shashemene District of Oromia Regional State.
The old, yet vibrant, Amina endured enormous challenges as she had to fetch water from a small stream traveling in excess of 3-km every day to fetch water from a small stream and fulfill the water needs of her family of five.
Amina and her fellow local women often had to leave their ho
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Youth Engagement
Amref Health Africa Partners with Youth Network for Sustainable Development and Hiwot Ethiopia to Empower Youth
Amref Health Africa partnering with Youth Network for Sustainable Development and Hiwot Ethiopia launched a youth targeted project that empowers young people to advocate for inclusive decision-making and gender equality. In alignment with Ethiopian government priorities, the project will ensure adolescent girls and young women from underserved communities are supported to strengthen their voice and agency in the public arena such that they can claim civic space and enable them to address sexual and gender-based violence, child marriage, female genital mutilation/cuttin
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Using Mobile Based Training to Support Community Health Workers Champion COVID-19 Prevention in Rural Communities
Equipping frontline health workers with the required knowledge and skills to respond to COVID-19 at the community level is one of the priorities of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health.
Degsew Mezgebu, 30, is a clinical nurse, working in Bahirdar town of Amhara Regional State. She is among the tens of thousands of health workers who stand firmly in the fight against the pandemic. She was among the first cohort of health workers to take the mobile phone-based training rolled out by the Ministry of Health in collaboration w
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COVID-19 in Ethiopia – Timely Response at a Wider Scale Through Mobile-Based Training
Health extension workers (HEW) are a critical health workforce in the Primary Health Care Unit (PHCU) in the Ethiopian health system. They are currently leading the nation’s community-level COVID-19 response through creating awareness, conducting house-to-house active case finding, and referring suspected cases to health facilities. Supported by the mobile based training they received, they are also supporting contact tracing efforts conducted by the Rapid Response Team (RRT), and coordinating and leading the efforts of community volunteers such as women’s groups,
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Maintaining the Momentum of Widening Public Awareness on COVID-19
September 13, 2020 marked six-months since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Ethiopia. Collectively, many of us have felt a wide range of emotions including fear, suspense, and uncertainty. Many of us have felt confined by the restrictions imposed, and frustrated by not knowing what may come next. Six months later, we find ourselves still fighting to stem the pandemic. We are doing the best we can to keep ourselves and those around us safe, while we await a clinical breakthrough.
To recognize the six-month
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Back to Basics: Enabling WASH to Stem the Spread of COVID -19 in Ethiopia
Like other countries around the world, Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous nation, is reeling from the effects of the pandemic on a fragile health system, while at the same time grappling with the very real threat of economic recession and its devastating consequences.
The government declared a five-month state of emergency, imposed movement restrictions, and enforced social distancing and wearing of face masks while out in public, yet, the pandemic continues to hold the country in its grip. Nonetheless, restri
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