Amref Facilitates Active Listening and Co-Creation Workshop for USAID’s Integrated Youth Activity
“With a national median age of 18, Ethiopia’s most valuable resource is her youth. This calls for the absolute need to create more platforms of youth empowerment, capacity development, and meaningful civic engagement. I disagree with the norm that young …
Mobile Application Supported Maternal Health Services in Rural Ethiopia: An Amref Health Africa Initiative
Rahel Mengesha is one of the tens of thousands of health extension workers (HEWs) the Government of Ethiopia has trained and deployed all over the country. Based at Asfachew kebele in Tarmaber district of the North Shewa Zone, she provides …
“I No Longer Dream of Migration”
A lack of economic opportunities for young people is one of the main driving factors of poor sexual reproductive health (SRH) outcomes in Ethiopia’s young population. In North Shewa, exponential population growth and poor living conditions are creating barriers to …
Amref Health Africa’s ‘SEE’ Project Sees the Youth
Haimanot Yirsaw, 22, lives in Debrebirhan of North Shoa in the Amhara Regional State. She heads Meskerem, Mekides and Her Friends Partnership Enterprise, a small-scale brick production business established by a team of five vibrant young women as an income …
‘This I Believe’ By Yohanna Alemayehu
By Yohanna Alemayehu Hailu, AYAG member
I believe privilege blocks your vision to witness what is on the other side of your reality. But, experiences do wipe those blurry visions and expose you to new realities. I used to get …
AYAG Actively Engaged in ASURE – Youth Focused Project Implementation in SNNPR, Ethiopia
Amref Youth Advisory Group (AYAG) representatives are actively engaged in Amref programme design, planning, and implementation. In early 2019, they traveled to Arbaminch in Ethiopia’s Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (SNNPR), one of the implementation sites for the Access, …
AYAG Leaders Engage in Community Outreach to Fight COVID-19 and Gender-Based Violence
In response to COVID-19 in Ethiopia, the Amref Youth Advisory Group (AYAG) mobilized to launch a community outreach initiative to increase the awareness of communities on COVID-19, and promote prevention through behavior change informed by risk communication and community engagement.…
AYAG Delegates Engagement and Contribution in the Africa Health Agenda International Conference (AHAIC)
The 2019 Africa Health Agenda International Conference (AHAIC) Youth Pre-Conference held in Kigali had a poignant theme: “Nothing About Us, Without Us.” This was a clear message demanding the meaningful engagement and participation in decision-making of youth, globally, in all …
My Pain Has Gone: Ending Obstetric Fistula through Case Identification
Alem Sifab, 16, lives in Kalala worda, Wollo, Amhara Regional State. She was pregnant and expecting a healthy baby. When the time came for her to deliver, her labor lasted several days. Finally she was taken to a health center, …
Mother and Son Find Hope to Enjoy the Beauty of Life
Likinesh Hurma, a 35 year old mother of four, lives in a village about 60km from Arbaminch, a small town 500km south of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
Likinesh was born with a cleft lip deformity that was …