• Safe House for Children Project

There are over 700 million fatherless children in the world.  According to a report in 2015, there are about 1.5 million children living in poverty on the streets in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under the age of 18. These children make up 1 to 3% of the population of children in Addis Ababa.   They are routinely exposed to risks such as drugs, malnutrition, human trafficking, prostitution, and child labor.  Man Up believes fatherlessness is the greatest social issue of our time and we are on a mission to end it.  We believe in a world where there is a Father for Every Child and that is why we exist.  

Our partners in Ethiopia have created a program to improve the physical, psycho-social and spiritual wellbeing of street children in Addis Ababa.  The Safe House for Children project will target the children who live and survive in the streets of Addis Ababa, some living in public landfills or under bridges. There are few organizations working to address the needs of these street children and we want to see that change.  We want to see children adequately protected, supervised and directed by responsible adults.  This will be a day program open Monday-Friday for up to 12 children.  It will provide a safe place for these children to receive meals and other services during the day.  

Funds for this project will provide the following:

• Full-time on-site staff consisting of a social worker, two house mothers, and a house father 
• Numeracy, literacy and skills training
• Nutritious lunch Monday-Friday
• Hygiene & primary health services
• Hygiene products
• Psycho-social counseling 
• Authentic Masculinity (AMP) training for boys, fathers/caretakers
• Access to micro-loan for Income Generating Activities (IGA) for those that complete the AMP training

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