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Our Impact

 
Our objective is to increase the literacy rate, job skills, education and healthcare products and personal development of the people of Western Ethiopia and South Sudan and beyond. We accomplish this by empowering young adults, provide capacity building efforts, tools resources, basic life necessities, life services, education, economic and healthcare supplies, equipment, potable clean water, and disease awareness and prevention. In late 2016 we launched programs which focus in Western Ethiopia and the South Sudan border where there are hundreds of thousands of refugees and displaced people who are under-served. This is relatively safe and stable compared with other parts in South Sudan, but its both new arrivals and population is suffering from the higher concentration of refugees and lack of access to basic life services. The South Sudanese people and others in the Gambella region in Western Ethiopia are refugees fleeing ongoing conflict in South Sudan. These people are some of the most under-served populations in the world. at present, there are approximately 500,000 people living in these refugee camps. This does not include tens of thousands roughly over 200,000 of displaced people who are not living in the camps but are devastated at the border. ASDF has three focus areas: Education, Economic Empowerment/Development and Healthcare Programs. Based on recent developments in the area, our plan is to rapidly deploy Educational, Education, Economic Empowerment/Development integrated with Healthcare assistance. Our educational and economic programs offer will improve the literacy, skill sets, job prospects, financial services/lending program, products, tools and general health awareness among a range of youths and young adults including teens, adolescents, young men and women. The current situation in Gambella and surrounding areas in the border and southeastern part of South Sudan requires rapid and efficient response to address scalable education, economic and health private sector and survival challenges for the people of the region. We at ASDF are turning to you for your generous donations, large or small, to meet three goals for short-term projects in the Gambella region.

FIRST

Meet basic infrastructures, energy in terms of providing lights or power to see, work and do other things, education and economic enhancements including skill sets, job skills, personal development, literacy and tools that will improve and access women and young adults to have real world job skills, personal development and empower them to creating small businesses and jobs.

SECOND

provide health and healthcare critical needs including mosquito netting, shelter supplies, water filtration systems and water pumps as well as perhaps a mobile solar power system that can provide lighting and generate potable clean water and cooking sources as well.

THIRD

Conduct trainings, meetings/conferences, forums, gatherings, and community outreach programs to the refugees and local population that will offer the basic educational tools, resources, and literacy. This in turn will absolutely increase their economic opportunities.

Also, it is our plan to continue to developing partnerships and collaborations with other organizations, foundations and donors.

Critical Partnerships Serving the people of western Ethiopia and southeastern region of South Sudan
ASDF continues to develop partnerships and collaborations with other organizations, foundations and donors as well as local shareholders, women groups, and leaders.

I.E. ASDF is now building a partnership with DU, Orbis Institute, Engineers Without Borders, Posner Center for International Development, Managers Without Borders and Project C.U.R.E.

This partnership with Project C.U.R.E will enable us to deliver  life-saving medical supplies, equipment and other relief supplies in 40-foot cargo containers that will be shipped to the Gambella region and beyond. This container will have supplies worth $450,000 of critically-needed medical equipment and other relief supplies.

This is one of the partnerships ASDF is building for ongoing sustainable.ducation and educational components including enhance literacy skills, job Skills set, personal development, and empowerment and provide capacity buildings as well.

 

Greater access to  education, and economic empowerment/development integrated healthcare through: 

We are raising funds to provide access to education, financial services, lending program, build capacity effort and education services for women and young adults, and healthcare, equipment, products.  Includes access educational skill sets and personal development programs and empowerment initiatives for the vulnerable women, girls and young refugees and displaced young adults in this part of the world.

Here are just some of the ways your donations make an impact.

  • Improve basic literacy and job skills , financial education, financial services/lending tools and opportunities as well as educational empowerment  through financial services, micro-lending programs, trainings, conferences, seminars, forums, and gatherings.
  • Health Awareness and Prevention Activities including community out-reach designed to reduce the spread of diseases like HIV AIDS and sexually transmitted infections
  • Education Pillar: Skill sets, personal development, financial services and Empowerment program including (develop both education and economic skills, personal development, discipline aptitude, motivational and educational hubs for women, young girls, children and men.
  • Purchase and deliver mosquito nets to prevent the further spread of disease
  • purchase and deliver water filtration, water pumps,  kits ( water treatment) to provide access to drinkable water.
  • Plan to build a clinic or clinics near the future
  • Organizational operational expenses and Developing staffing infrastructure in the region as well as here in Denver, CO.

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